Goal

Roots America Network is dedicated to streaming the highest quality Roots Music at the lowest bandwidth. This enables listening on mobile devices, smart phones and dial-up internet service. .

24kps stream

After much research Roots America Network decided that AACPlusV2 (AAC) is by far the best sounding audio quality at the 24kps level. This great bandwidth allows use on dial-up computers or cellular phones. The downside of using AAC is not all media players can receive this stream. Windows Media can play the stream, but you will need to download and install an additional plug-in from Orban. Newer versions of Winamp, RealPlayer and VideoLan can stream natively.

Mobile Devices

This is the best stream to use on mobile devices with low bandwidth capabilities, but the device needs the ability to play AAC internet streams. On the Blackberry Storm, Roots America testing shows that this stream will not work unless you have installed additional software for playing internet radio in the AAC format. Two things to check on your smart phone add-on player is 1) can it play AAC format and 2) can you add stations to the radio software. For the Blackberry Storm Roots American is currently testing out the software BerryTunes which accomplishes both of these goals

When trying to access the 24kps stream added to a station or player here are some internet addresses you can try to see which format works. http://s4.viastreaming.net:7130 or http://s4.viastreaming.net:7130/listen.pls or http://s4.viastreaming.net/7130/listen_aac.asx
As a last resort if you cannot get anything else to work for your smart phone you can try www.moodio.fm and search under country for "Roots". You Will find us there!

64kps stream

This is our higher quality stream using MP3Pro technology. I can actually get this on my Blackberry without any additional apps by going to a browser and typeing in http://s9.viastreaming.net:7080. I have not tested this to see if it will buffer out if I use it driving in the truck. By using the MP3Pro technology we are able to get a higher quality stream that approaches the quality of 128kps MP3 technology. A bonus is that all major media players that will play a MP3 stream will also play the MP3Pro stream.