Reply to post: Re: just receive an IP stream, buffer as necessary.

The future of radio may well be digital, but it won't survive on DAB

Headley_Grange Silver badge

Re: just receive an IP stream, buffer as necessary.

Lee D. Live radio is buffered at the transmit end, not the receive end.

It's not delay I'm talking about - it's the fact that vast tracts of the country don't have enough data coverage to do a Google search, never mind live streaming. The train journey from Ipswich to Liverpool Street has 10-15 mins of no data coverage - and no signal at all at Shenfield (Vodafone). You can't buffer that. I was in North Norfolk two weeks ago and spent hours with no data.

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