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Listed below are comments made by KenJ_in_Michigan between Tuesday, 15th July 2008 and Tuesday, 30th June 2009.

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Another exciting new sound for BBC Radio 10:25pm on 30 Jun 2009 I am another voice from overseas to agree with bravegannett in response 8 and tienshan in response 37 on the quality of the overseas streams.

Yes, the frequency response is better than the old Real Audio streams, but there is some sort of distortion going on in the 48K AAC stream which makes the BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3 streams difficult to listen to. I've been a listener for seven years and I am thinking of giving it up -- the sound is that bad.

This is much, much worse than the 64K Real Audio streams which were available on Radio 3 from July 2008 until recently, with some interruption. The 64K streams started to capture the sense of "bloom" that good music reproduction should have. It's also worse than the 44K Real streams, which I compare to AM/Medium Wave radio in sound quality.

I am listening to "Listen Again" replay shows from the USA, and as I mentioned I consider myself a veteran listener, since 2002.
The latest on our audio improvements 8:00pm on 15 Jul 2008 2) Question: Could we have a clear statement of what technologies and bit rates will be available on the radio streams for non-UK users? I note that some people here have discussed improved quality, but I have not encountered it while trying the Beta.
The latest on our audio improvements 7:58pm on 15 Jul 2008 1) Comment: Radio 2 and Radio Scotland appear to have moved to the new iPlayer today. The replay programmes I wanted to listen to, "Mary Ann Kennedy's Global Gathering" and "Mike Harding", appear to have been lost in the transition. Further debug info available on request.

If this is just a case of not wanting to shovel over the audio files for the last few days of life, fine, I can live with it. But if you intended to retain replay shows in the move -- oops!

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