Please excuse my ignorance about this. I don't work in the broadcast business, but I've been curious about this.
What is the most common source media/format type for the major music stations? I know on some smaller stations I hear talk about playing CDs and I can tell some play LPs sometimes (can hear the clicks and pops).
But I've been wondering what the larger stations use. For the most part the audio seems really good, although I can tell there are differences with things like automatic level gain and compression between stations. Just wondering if the source audio tends to be from CDs or some other higher bit rate digital format.
There's one small station here in Denver that seems like they use low bit rate MP3s and I have a hard time listening to it, but they're the exception.
Thanks!
What is the most common source media/format type for the major music stations? I know on some smaller stations I hear talk about playing CDs and I can tell some play LPs sometimes (can hear the clicks and pops).
But I've been wondering what the larger stations use. For the most part the audio seems really good, although I can tell there are differences with things like automatic level gain and compression between stations. Just wondering if the source audio tends to be from CDs or some other higher bit rate digital format.
There's one small station here in Denver that seems like they use low bit rate MP3s and I have a hard time listening to it, but they're the exception.
Thanks!