StreamS HiFi Radio
StreamS HiFi Radio is a high quality streaming audio App for Apple iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV. It focuses on AAC-LC/HE-AAC/xHE-AAC [1] audio streams listed in the global StreamS Directory. It allows arbitrary stream URLs to be entered and saved.
StreamS HiFi Radio supports HLS[2] [3] audio streams with fully compliant synchronous realtime metadata, in ES (Elementary Stream) ADTS, and fMP4 (Fragmented ISO MP4) in Stereo 2.0 and Surround 5.1/7.1. It also supports legacy ICY SHOUTcast, SHOUTcast2, and Icecast streams.
StreamS HiFi Radio was the first iPhone streaming audio App supporting HE-AAC before it was available from Apple. It is now the first streaming audio App supporting xHE-AAC before it is available from Apple. It uses the Licensed Fraunhofer Commercial Decoder.
HLS has the advantage over legacy streaming protocols in that it is more reliable, offers higher quality, and is less expensive to stream for both the content provider and audience. It does not use expensive conventional specialized streaming servers that legacy streaming protocols use and require a constant stream of data. Instead, HLS segmented streaming uses either a simple web server or inexpensive cloud storage to deliver live or on-demand streams. This kind of traffic appears on the network to be the same as web browser traffic, which is what the Internet was designed for. All the major video content providers and streamers have moved to segmented streaming for these reasons, so it only makes sense that audio should follow to enjoy the same benefits and improve the audience experience, especially on crowded mobile networks. Protocols such as RTMP or ICY are no longer necessary or desirable.
Until fairly recently, there has been very little development in improving streaming audio protocols. StreamS provides both high performance professional encoders as well as the StreamS HiFi Radio App with full 100% Compliant HLS.
References
- ↑ "ISO/IEC DIS 23003-3 - Information technology -- MPEG audio technologies -- Part 3: Unified speech and audio coding". 2011-02-15. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
- ↑ Pantos, R. (2020). HTTP Live Streaming 2nd Edition - draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-07. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC8216. RFC 8216.
- ↑ Pantos, R.; May, W. (2017). HTTP Live Streaming. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC8216. ISSN 2070-1721. RFC 8216. Retrieved Jan 15, 2020.
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