Why are you guys all the way down here? - Page 3

I like mog as well, but I think they quietly changed their bps to only 256kbps, not 320 like they used to.  Can someone confirm that?  I found it out while recording some of their streams.

 

 

Update:  I did some more checking and the vast majority is streamed at 320kbps, but some older classical albums are at 256, such as the classical recordings from the 1960s.

Edited by mitchflorida - 12/19/12 at 7:56am

I love MOG but I've been having serious connection issues lately. MOG is very nice for finding new artists.
Edited by Draygonn - 12/18/12 at 10:42pm

 

Building your own gear is by far the best value. There's a lot more satisfaction in listening with equipment you built yourself and you learn, through experience, how electronics actually work.

 

 

It used to be very spotty, but it is now running like clockwork.  would suggest you use their desktop app and not your browser to listen.

I'm using Squeezebox Touch. I did some googling, apparently this happens every so often to SBT owners when they update the code. Otherwise MOG has been amazing. I'm very impressed with their library.
Edited by Draygonn - 12/19/12 at 11:19am

I haven't had much luck with streaming services, or satellite radio for that matter. I have a very large music collection and diverse tastes. It seems that while these services have great selections of contemporary music from major labels, they fall back on "the regular suspects" when it comes to back catalog stuff. I buy mostly small label CDs nowadays, and they never seem to make it to streaming services. And in classical music, the performer is very important to me. The streaming services aren't smart enough to know one Beethoven or Karajan recording from another.

What I would REALLY like is a network of carefully curated internet radio programs on specific types of music,

This is a very good classical radio station from the Netherlands.  AVRO.  They have another one for Baroque music.

 

No interruptions with ads  and you can easily record this because every track is identified .

 

 

http://shoutcast.omroep.nl:8072/listen.pls      you can play this on itunes

Edited by mitchflorida - 12/19/12 at 3:29pm

Yes, I listen to those. I wish there were similar things for jump blues, classic country western, Latin jazz, and pop vocals.

I never even heard of jump blues before.  This station claims to play it.

 

 

http://www.bigblueswing.com/radio/bigblueswing-64.m3u

Jump blues is the link between jazz and rock n roll. When jazz started going abstract, a lot of the good time music players left bop and created early r&b... louis Jordan was the most famous. Elvis took it a step further and mixed a bit of country in. Jump blues is the root of R&B and rock n roll.
Edited by bigshot - 12/19/12 at 5:34pm

Chuck Berry is rock n roll, which came out of jump blues. Jump Blues stands right at the junction of the Blues, Jazz and Rock n Roll. Different artists leaned towards different directions in the music.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkQWv18Trw0
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-a8kLtJSJ4
Louis Prima and Keeley Smith with Sam Butera and the Witnesses


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGk72L652K4
T Bone Walker
Edited by bigshot - 12/20/12 at 11:02am

I'd like to read more about your Idea(s) to make music a more integral part of the forum. Music should have more presence here than it does, after all, what good is the gear with out the tunes? I like the Idea of sub-forums for major genres and possibly another sub for reviews of both recordings and labels. Adding clips to music reviews would be helpful and I think create interest in the forum.

 

Another thought......I've always wanted to learn more about classical, I took a course in college a very long time ago and since then I've read tutorial books and picked up a little better understanding but it would be great to have a member well versed in classical to lead a sort of "tutorial forum". The leader(s) could select a classical piece, explain it and then the thread subscribers, AKA students, would listen to the piece and then get together on the thread to discuss it. I suspect we have a few classical Mavens who may be willing to facilitate such a thread to help others understand and appreciate the music they love.  

 

This same idea could work for other Genres as well.

Edited by fatcat28037 - 12/27/12 at 3:33pm