Comments on: 100% Absolute by Clive Dickens

By: Giovanni Lombardo

Giovanni Lombardo — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:04:05 +0000

What time is the long “all music programme” called Road from V to A ?

By: adam

adam — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:49:32 +0000

Stuart – 10am – 4pm. Listen out to Russ to find out more…

By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:38:48 +0000

What time is the goodbye programme starting on Friday?

By: Erwin

Erwin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:35:27 +0000

Nice, I tuned to the stream and I hear someone turn tweak the volume up. It’s better now but it sounds a little bit to ‘flat’ to me. A little bit more compression would be nice.

B.t.w. I notice the soft volume output also on the Absolute/Virgin Classic Rock streams.
I don’t know how the volume from the other streams are, so I don’t listen to them.

By: andy

andy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:04:28 +0000

sounds brilliant clive, lozza seems to think it would be great to have suggs back, i for one would not be happy if he returned. He was awful i would much prefer to hear real djs like russ williams and nick jackson.

By: Erwin

Erwin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:21:54 +0000

Ok. And then the sound quality of the streams. I must turn my volume knob up to hear something. This not only on your OGG streams also on the other streams. The output of the stream is to soft.
I don’t now how you process the signal of the streams. Is it feed directly from the main soundprocessing equipment or from an external soundprocessor? I know you are using Omnia 6 or something. There is a special output on these machines for webcasting/streaming.

By: Ben Matthew

Ben Matthew — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:00:58 +0000

Re: the ogg service.

I think some of you may be getting confused between rebranding streaming services with the correct metadata and the short code used in URLs.

Because of the abundance of references to the old OGG url we won’t be switching that over for a little while. The usage of the code “vr” is frankly nowhere near as important to us than the dispay that appears (in say VLC media player) that used to read Virgin Radio and now says Absolute Radio.

By: Lozza

Lozza — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:43:22 +0000

Absolute radio will be great, if it turns out as good as as planned. However, let me firstly say there has been a massive air of loss at Virgin Radio since last December when Suggs left, he was a great radio talent-completely different from anything else out there. Virgin made a mistake letting him go, even though his shows were pre-recorded…but who cares, he was brilliant. A big goodbye to Tony Hadley too, he was good at presenting, not as good as Suggs, but very good nevertheless!!! Finally, I think Sarah Champion should be on air more, maybe presenting an Absolute Xtreme Show on a Sunday night? That would be awesome I reckon.

Bye Bye Virgin Radio :( Hello Absolute :)

By: Siggi

Siggi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:06:03 +0000

I listen all the time from Iceland and I use the Ogg stream. It has not been updated, at least not this on this url: http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls?service=vrbb

By: Marty from new yawk

Marty from new yawk — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:35:17 +0000

@Llia- Can I interest you in an official Virgin Radio mug lightly used by the presenters only on Sundays?