We’re on location at the new studios of STAR 94.1 (WSTR-FM) and 790 The Zone (WQXI) in Atlanta! Scott Trask, the stations’ Chief Engineer, tells us about the build-out process, and what technologies he’s using to make the stations run smoothly.
How did we get to this point where the end of ISDN is worrying broadcast engineers? Was ISDN that good? Is IP-audio that scary? Can we master the packets and get IP connections to work reliably and robustly for us as broadcasters? The answer is – mostly yes.
Well, NAB is hardly what you’d call “free.” But Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack were there, and were able to spend a little time scouting the Central Hall where most of the radio industry manufacturers are.
Chris Tarr joins us from NOT NAB – in Mukwanago, Wisconsin – where engineering life is good.
We’re dishing’ on NAB – some new products and the state of affairs we call “radio.”
What’s new at NAB? What equipment, software, and services will engineers be asking about? Chris Tobin, Tom Ray, and Kirk Harnack discuss these and other NAB Preview subjects.
One of the challenges in transferring audio programming over IP networks, especially over the Public Internet, is data loss caused by two factors: congestion-related packet loss and varying latency or jitter.
IP links may drop packets for several reasons; though some transmission protocols are designed to mitigate or correct such losses, they require extra bandwidth and extra time to make these corrections.
In this episode we examine several data transmission error mitigation techniques in the context of their application to real-time, low-latency IP-audio transport. We suggest how different techniques may be applied to different data loss or jitter scenarios.