new CBC Radio 2 web streams

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:36:26PM +0000, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
> Hi TLUGgers:
> 
> Some (many?) of you are CBC Radio fans -- which I've noticed because you
> have come up with novel solutions for capturing Windows Media streams
> and turning them into something useful [1]
> 
> Today, CBC Radio launched four new web streams as part of the Radio 2
> revitalization project [2]. It's not made clear on the Radio 2 site, but
> these streams are in streaming VBR MP3 format, for cross-platform
> compatibility.
> 
> CBC is providing a Flash-based player to play the streams, but you can
> also use the direct M3U playlist links in your favourite Linux-based MP3
> player:
> 
> Canadian Classical
> http://icy1.abacast.com/cbc-canadianclassicalhi-192.m3u
> 
> Classical
> http://icy1.abacast.com/cbc-classicalhi-192.m3u
> 
> Jazz
> http://icy1.abacast.com/cbc-jazzhi-192.m3u
> 
> Singer/Songwriter
> http://icy1.abacast.com/cbc-songwriterhi-192.m3u

I still like these ones:

http://www.cbc.ca/listen/ogg.html

Why bother with mp3s? :)

-- 
Len Sorensen
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