Also add Celtic Music Radio to the list, http://www.celticmusicradio.net

We broadcast 24x7 from Glasgow on 1530kHz and online, and our output is predominantly scottish/celtic/folk/etc influenced.

We are always happy to accept material from the community - indeed some of our programs focus entirely on new material from upcoming and unsigned performers. We do a regular "demo of the week" feature.

http://www.celticmusicradio.net/artist_contact.html if you want to submit material.


We'll sometimes use high bitrate MP3s, but only as a very last resort - we'd prefer CD or .wav. It's to do with the technical side of the transmission chain - from the studio to the listener's ears, the signal may be converted from analogue to digital and back several times; each introduces more artifacts and you really need top quality source material. The "first generation" playout may sound fine, but once it gets passed through the transmission system, a low-quality source may sound unacceptable.

If anyone's interested, I've got some interesting screenshots from a spectrum analyser, showing what happens to real audio when mp3 encoded - there's basically a brick-wall at around 12kHz-16kHz (depending on encoding frequency)

Bruce