Babaganousha Radio is now streaming in aac+ format!

Good news! From today i have switched the stream format of my station to aac+ (96 kbps). This format sounds much better then a mp3 stream at a higher bitrate (192kbps). I have tested it with many players like Winamp (5.x), foobar2000 and VLC.

click on the button for a technical article about aac+ (.pdf format)

Windows Media Player (WMP) users:

There is a new free plug-in for playing AAC and aacPlus files from within Windows Media Player. This is put out by Orban and Coding Technolgies. The aacPlus plug-in is still in beta, but should work with playing all your streaming aacPlus Internet streams in WMP 10.

click on the button to download the plugin.

How to tune in:

just click on the WMP icon on the right side!

Quote from their website about this plug-in:

"The Orban/Coding Technologies AAC/aacPlus™ Plugin is a free, full-featured software plug-in for Microsoft Windows Media Player. It is capable of playing AAC/aacPlus™/HE-AAC/eAAC+ audio files and streams in several standards-based, non-proprietary formats using the genuine Coding Technologies decoder. This is the good stuff from the company who invented the SBR technology to make AAC into aacPlus™. High quality, bandwidth-efficient audio is now a reality for Windows Media Player."

Linux users: applications using the open source AAC decoder FAAD2 should be able to play the aacPlus stream, because it is using Coding Technologies' standard-compliant HE AAC codec. There are a lot of Linux players which have implemented FAAD2 in the meantime, see this Wiki page on Audiocoding.com

If you don't want to install Winamp 5.x there is a portable version available at :

Portable Winamp 5.1 with iPod Support

Please give me feedback about the quality and if you have any problems to tune in !