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What
is Echoes On-Line?
Echoes is the daily soundscape of world fusion and ambient music, interviews and Living Room Concerts that has aired on Public Radio International stations since 1989. Now, streaming audio has enabled us to offer both this week's Echoes programs and selections from our extensive archive for on-demand listening anytime.
Echoes began broadcasting in October, 1989. Our growing archive includes
nearly 3,000 programs, 1,000 features and over 400 Living Room
Concerts.
We've designed a
collection of archive selections which are changed and updated
each month. The archive includes the most recent two
months of Echoes programs, plus Living Room Concert collections,
an "Ancient Echoes" program, collections of Echoes
interview features, and online-only features like special uninterrupted music streams.
Options and Costs
Providing
on-demand audio is expensive, and Echoes On-Line has no advertisements, pop-ups or pleas for donations. The majority
of your subscription fee goes to the costs of storage and streaming,
music rights and royalties, processing and customer service
fees.
In return for your subscription, you can listen to the shows
you want, when you want, and don't forget: no annoying ads!
STANDARD
SERVICE:
For about 43 cents per day, you'll have access
to over 2 months of full Echoes shows, including the current
week and "From
the Archive" features, which change monthly, and special
subscriber-only content.
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| Billed Quarterly |
$12.99/month ($38.97/Quarter) |
| Billed Monthly | $15.95 |
PROGRAM
OF THE WEEK SERVICE:
One
2-hour show we select from the current week of Echoes, plus a
Feature from the Archive, and one 2-hour show from the Archive.
Programs change weekly. Sound quality is the same as for the
full service.
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| Billed Quarterly |
$10.95/month ($32.85/Quarter) |
| Billed Monthly | $11.95 |
Listen to a Sample:
Feature:
Mike Oldfield's Virtual Music
(Full Bandwidth)
This feature is coded the same as all the Echoes On-Line Programs, so it represents the sound quality you will get on your connection. All shows will have the same sound quality as this sample.
A
half-hour of Echoes:
program 42-T
(Low bandwidth)
This sample is coded at a lower rate than our on-line archive of shows, so it will have a lower sound-quality than the programs you will hear as a subscriber. If you are unfamiliar with Echoes, this sample will give a sense of what a typical Echoes program sounds like. If you'd like to check the sound quality that you will get on your particular internet connection, play the interview feature at the top of this column. That sample is coded as a variable-bandwidth Real Audio "Surestream" file that will give you the best quality that your connection can provide and represents the actual sound quality you can expect when you subscribe to Echoes On-Line.
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What on-line listeners say:
"I like Echoes on line because i can listen to it any time of the day. I also can go back and catch shows I may have missed."
"Sometimes I listen at work, sometimes at home in the evenings, sometimes in the middle of the night."
Questions?
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