Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

Re:Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the... by orbitur on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @10:35AM (#12079337)

As an aside, I got a free SiriusXM trial with my new car, and the sound quality is terrible compared to FM. I was honestly reminded of the MP3s I got from Kazaa and burned to a CD in 2003, you can hear the aggressive compression.

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Re:Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the... by mikestew on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @12:24PM (#12080351)

It's why I dumped Sirius a while back. When it started, Sirius had really good quality. IIRC, I'd put it up there with CDs. As they added more and more, the quality just kept going down and down. Between the nosedive in quality and the increasing number of ads on non-music channels, I didn't see $12/month in value. IOW, satellite radio went through the exact same cycle as cable TV.

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Re:Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the... by bmm6o on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @12:59PM (#12080608)

It seems like it really varies between channels, especially between talk and music but also within categories. I assume they allocate more bandwidth to the more popular/lucrative channels. I find the quality to be fine on the ones I listen to (e.g. SiriusXMU).

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Re:Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the... by brookside on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @11:17AM (#12079716)

I have knowledge of the bitrate at which Sirius transmits, and while it varies by station, 32/kbs is (or was) typical.

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