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Twerk from Home posted:Wikipedia article currently claims: Edit: I actually subscribed for a month a couple years ago because there was a dumb rebate where you could actually make like $50 that way
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the miata has a microsd that is loaded with the maps for onboard navigation, but if you don't care about that (i.e. you use carplay like i do) you can just load it up with a shitload of mp3s instead and have a built in music library. gonna do that soon
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Jonny 290 posted:the miata has a microsd that is loaded with the maps for onboard navigation, but if you don't care about that (i.e. you use carplay like i do) you can just load it up with a shitload of mp3s instead and have a built in music library. gonna do that soon
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Linkin_park_crawling.mp3.exe, fresh off of limewire
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Jonny 290 posted:the miata has a microsd that is loaded with the maps for onboard navigation, but if you don't care about that (i.e. you use carplay like i do) you can just load it up with a shitload of mp3s instead and have a built in music library. gonna do that soon my cooper s had something like this where you could just throw a bunch of poo poo on any usb mass storage, so i just used a cheap reader and a microsd card. it owned mystes posted:Wasn't it mazda that had some problem with some filenames bricking the entire entertainment system or something? but it also had something like this too lol it didn't have an infotainment system per se but it had a little multiline character lcd that did not support unicode e: lol i had "microusb card" 
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mystes posted:Wasn't it mazda that had some problem with some filenames bricking the entire entertainment system or something? it was if you tried to play 99% invisible, the name was a C++ injection or some poo poo
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there was also a car stereo that got into a boot loop because of a missing/wrong file extension on a cover thumbnail
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Carthag Tuek posted:there was also a car stereo that got into a boot loop because of a missing/wrong file extension on a cover thumbnail https://driving.ca/auto-news/driver-info/older-mazdas-see-infotainment-systems-bricked-by-npr-radio-station quote:In a statement to The Drive, Mazda said the issue began when ‘a radio station in the Seattle area’ accidentally included album art without an image type extension” – e.g. it was missing its .jpeg or .gif suffix – “triggering the system crashes.”
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Nfcknblvbl posted:https://driving.ca/auto-news/driver-info/older-mazdas-see-infotainment-systems-bricked-by-npr-radio-station they sent hello.jpeg without a file extension and it couldn't figure out what it was
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Twerk from Home posted:Wikipedia article currently claims: they do deals literally all the time that make it $1/mo and at that point people are like ok yeah what the heck sure
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Did you know KEXP.jpg is actually a gif?
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Twerk from Home posted:Did you know KEXP.jpg is actually a gif? Solid Seattle joke
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Twerk from Home posted:Sirius sounds loving awful. It is noticeably worse than FM radio. I cannot believe it still exists as a solvent company. same reason places like Starbucks roast their beans at full hell+ consistency is a thing for some folks and being able to get the same stupid rear end in a top hat anywhere is worth the subscription, personally I just use a mirror but some folks need more stupid rear end in a top hat consistency
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Jonny 290 posted:maybe if you listen to howard stern ityool 2022, 
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Sirius was good on ships for when you were out of range of radio and cell phone otherwise meh I had a car where the free trial never ended and it was ok I guess
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Twerk from Home posted:Sirius sounds loving awful. It is noticeably worse than FM radio. I cannot believe it still exists as a solvent company. e: Completely out of cellphone range for most of that drive as well.
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Twerk from Home posted:Sirius sounds loving awful. It is noticeably worse than FM radio. I cannot believe it still exists as a solvent company. how does it feel to be so wrong?
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sirius has good reception out there because its low quality (implies low bandwidth). since its also a digital signal it can work acceptably with way weaker signal strength than analog fm radio
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uh stereo FM sounds a lot, lot, lot better. you won't fool us with such low effort trolling. do betterBeeftweeter posted:since its also a digital signal it can work acceptably with way weaker signal strength than analog fm radio this is incorrect friendo. you cant really compare signal levels between a terrestrial and satellite service anyways. If you put a typical 10kw FM broadcast transmitter in mid earth orbit you'd have full quieting music to 1/3 of the planet Jonny 290 fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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like yeah codecs have improved today so that low bandwidth stuff can sound fine, but sirius doesn't use that lol
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Jonny 290 posted:uh stereo FM sounds a lot, lot, lot better. you won't fool us with such low effort trolling. do better "acceptably" doing a lot of heavy lifting for sure but i think a poor digital signal sounds better than the same loss with analog e: but yeah it's not a good comparison. they're not very similar
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i guess your speakers will make some noise and its probably fine for OTR truckers or chronic road warriors, both of which probably listen to a lot of talk radio so the flaws aren't revealed, but the real benefit is that they can effectively turn your car stereo off if you don't pay this lovely little bill.
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hell i don't even know if they'd turn it off lolFrozenVent posted:I had a car where the free trial never ended and it was ok I guess i don't think i would use it even if it were free. its really bad quality
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Beeftweeter posted:like yeah codecs have improved today so that low bandwidth stuff can sound fine, but sirius doesn't use that lol What codec does Sirius use? Too lazy to Google
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truckers love Sirius don’t forget all the trucks
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last i'd heard it was a proprietary variant of high efficiency aac that was developed before that actually had a spec. i don't have a source on this specifically because i honestly don't remember where i'd read it, but it follows that they can't very simply switch away from it. if they could they almost certainly would have, but i'm guessing they don't want to effectively rebroadcast everything in several formats forever
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xm is apparently he-aac vbr but 96kbps or less
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Last Chance posted:What codec does Sirius use? Too lazy to Google some AAC variant that sounds like rear end, between 8 and 64kbps. It’s supposed to sound like 128kbps MP3 but it sounds like poo poo for a while they had a couple channels that broadcast 5.1 surround sound using 6 separate 64kbps data streams and a special receiver
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Last Chance posted:What codec does Sirius use? Too lazy to Google it uses something called PAC (perceptual audio codec). i can't really find any details on how it works though i have a pretty good feeling that it sucks
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yeah i mean they could have transitioned to actually using it, idk he-aac is pretty decent at 96 kbps, but anything lower than that sounds pretty bad imo. most of the time it's obvious that it's not high bitrate, but i guess you'd have to know what to listen for
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and Sirius uses whatever PAC is at 64kbps
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Sirius is pretty good for the RadioClassics Olde Tyme Radio station. Everything else is pretty rear end sounding when you stop and listen.
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the woke left wants to rename it to she-aac
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I have been spoiled by lame vbr because plex converts music to 128 opus which i assumed would be fine, turns out it's just okay and i was surprised to be able to hear lovely artifacts in the cymbals occasionally
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i can believe that 96 is fine for HE-AAC. newer codecs are pretty great in that regard (and i remember ogg being pretty good back when i had a creative zen and wanted to stretch the storage out)
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opus absolutely should sound better than lame vbr at 128 kbps (cbr or otherwise). check if there's encoding settings
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:holy lol Ford has the good implementation of this: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/02/im-obsessed-with-the-ford-mustang-mach-e-physical-touchscreen-volume-knob/ Just put a dial on the touchscreen with a fake finger tip on the backside of it.
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polyester concept posted:I have been spoiled by lame vbr because plex converts music to 128 opus which i assumed would be fine, turns out it's just okay and i was surprised to be able to hear lovely artifacts in the cymbals occasionally 128 opus should be transparent. something else is up.
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susan b buffering posted:i can believe that 96 is fine for HE-AAC. newer codecs are pretty great in that regard (and i remember ogg being pretty good back when i had a creative zen and wanted to stretch the storage out)
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