SunnySekot wrote:I am asking me the same question.
Somewhere I read, that the Soundbridge is collecting information, what station you are listening and sendig it to the Roku-Server.
Maybe that stars reflect how many people are actually listening to this station? Or is it the favourites?
RokuAnthony wrote:The star rating is created automatically based on two factors:
- how reliable the station stream is
- the bit rate of the station (higher is better)anthony
Custer wrote:RokuAnthony wrote:The star rating is created automatically based on two factors:
- how reliable the station stream is
- the bit rate of the station (higher is better)anthony
Well I have a problem with that latter category.
RadioDismuke plays nothing but music from 1922-1935, all of which is obviously on low-fi 78's. Its streamed at 24 because there essentially is no reason to stream it at any higher speed. By your standards it will never have a decent rating based on that alone.
Since Total Listening Hours is used to determine that station popularity number, I would also ask why when I've had the station on for four hours now it doesn't show up in "Now Playing" And I HAVE enable data upload.
In addition, you have the primary stream with one star (as a result of the above) and apparently a link to the RadioDismuke source stream which probably got overloaded when people linked to it instead of the relay, bringing the station down, and had to be changed. Regardless, now when people try to play the station they get nothing.
wideasleep1 wrote:Custer wrote:RokuAnthony wrote:The star rating is created automatically based on two factors:
- how reliable the station stream is
- the bit rate of the station (higher is better)anthony
Nonesense. Star-ratings are indicators of quality, namely reliability and quality bitrate delivery. The station you describe has neither, ergo not a multi-star rating. This speaks nothing to the fine music it might actually play, but it's stream quality/reliability is simply not up to par with it's competitors. If a few Roku users brought it down (silly implication), they need a lot of help.