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Great idea to invest in digital, but let's not be a scrooge just to save money on streaming and use crappy quality codec bitrates. Similar to how they try and pack so many radio stations on DAB+ encoded at 48Kbps HE-AAC and they think no one notices, but people do notice and HE-AAC even at 48Kbps sounds horrible and defeats the purpose of digital radio in the first place. In fact FM is better quality then DAB+ (go figure). So with the internet, the advantage, there's more lanes, so open this right up with higher bitrate codecs so that we can listen to these stations in proper quality audio without feeling like half our ears are chopped off.