Crystal Radio has moved servers. With the old provider the server was constantly maxed out at 60 connections. We've increased the number of available connections, but unfortunately that also means changing our internet address for audio streams.
If you listen via iTunes or the built in players on this page, either the one on top, or the pop-up one, it won't be an issue. If you use Winamp or another form of internet player you're going to have to change your listening address.
http://174.37.194.139:8174/listen.pls
Is the new server address.
The box on the right, marked "LISTEN" has all the various listening options, and connection methods.
Don'tcha just love Internet radio :). Someday it will be simple.
Thank you!
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You can enjoy Crystal Radio on iTunes.
- start iTunes,
- click on 'Radio',
- Select 'Adult Contemporary',
- select Crystal Radio Canada.
and join the many users
now enjoying Crystal
via their iPod, iPhone and computer.
Shoutcast offers a FREE APP for the Ipod and Iphone. Load iTunes, search for the app, Install it and search for "Crystal Radio Canada" to listen online.
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Welcome to Crystal Radio.
Canada's Beautiful Music stop on the internet. We take pride in our All Day, All Night, All Nice programming. Hopefully you can take a few minutes, sit back, relax and enjoy. Get lost in the music and memories.
Thank you for dropping by. If you have any requests, tips, advice or other messages please feel free to contact us.
We get a lot of people asking "Who is the voice?".
So we'd like to introduce you to Toronto Canada's Don Andrews.
Don is the voice of Crystal Radio and can be heard intertwined throughout your listening visit.
Most of Don's years have been spent on-air as a Broadcaster, as well as Music Director, Program Director twice, Operations Manager, Manager, and now President of his own company.
You may have heard Don if you've been in Saskatoon, Edmonton or Toronto. Afternoon drive, and aircraft traffic reporting in Edmonton, phone-in shows in Regina and Toronto, and he has voiced national radio and television commercials, as well as network television voice work, both regionally and nationally. Radio formats have included rock, country, pop, jazz, adult popular, and talk.
You've probably heard about HD Radio and D.A.B. Odds are you've never heard it. But it's touted as being 'better' than FM. The typical bitrate for DAB programs is only 128 kbit/s and as a result most radio stations on DAB have a lower sound quality than FM, prompting a number of complaints.
An informal listening test has shown that for stationary listening the audio quality on DAB is lower than FM stereo, due to most stations using a bit rate of 128 kbit/s or less, with the MP2 audio codec, which requires 160 kbit/s to achieve perceived FM quality. 128 kbit/s gives a more smeared stereo image, and an upper cutoff frequency of 14 kHz, corresponding to 15 KHz of FM radio. CD quality audio is possible with 192 kbit/s. Still, most DAB owners (including mobile listeners) believes DAB to have equal or better sound quality than FM.
Crystal Radio transmits our signal at 192 kbit/s. What you're hearing when you listen to Crystal Radio is true Digital Radio. Better than most DAB signals, and obviously wider reaching.
Welcome to the new world of Digital entertainment.
Remember the shortwave radio your parents (or grandparents) had in their house? You could skate the glowing needle along the numbers and pull in exotic music and strange voices from all over the world. That sort of magical radio still exists?inside your computer. Any computer with an Internet connection can easily be turned into a global radio receiver. All it takes is some software and some tips on where to look so you can listen. Let's spin the dial.
Monday February 1, 2010
During the months of December 2009 and January 2010, Bridge Ratings conducted interviews with over 3000 Internet radio listeners to determine their current and intended Internet radio listening preferences.
Highlights of the study are:
- Just over 60 million Americans listen to some form of Internet radio in a typical week. This includes both AM/FM simulcast streams and Internet-only radio (e.g. Crystalradio.ca, Pandora, AccuRadio).
- 84% of this group regularly listens for at least five minutes to AM/FM simulcast streams in a typical week.
- 62% of the total streaming group regularly listens for at least five minutes listening to Internet-only streams.
- 77 million Americans will listen to Internet radio streams (on both computers and mobile devices) by January 1, 2015.
- Based on interviews which measured satisfaction and fatigue levels, we are projecting that by that date the percentage listening to AM/FM simulcast streams will fall to 81% while those listening to Internet-only radio streams will increase to 72%.
- The percentage of streaming listeners for AM/FM simulcasts and Internet-only will reach parity by the end of 2016 (77%).