Streaming radio station data question

kbell

Anyone an idea how much data I'd burn listening to a streaming radio station online for about 2hrs?

Zcott

Depends on the bitrate. But have a quick look at how much Spotify uses:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-iOS-iPhone-iPad-iPod-Touch/Data-Usage/td-p/502830

kbell

Excellent,cheers for this, very helpful.
I'll be ok it seems going by that

Tom Dunne

Assuming a 64kbps stream, that's 3840 kilobits per minute and 230400 per hour.

That's 28800 kilobytes, or 3.6 Mb per hour. There will be additional data, but not much.

So its nothing on these fancy all-you-can-eat data plans.

arch_stanton

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Assuming a 64kbps stream, that's 3840 kilobits per minute and 230400 per hour.

That's 28800 kilobytes, or 3.6 Mb per hour. There will be additional data, but not much.

So its nothing on these fancy all-you-can-eat data plans.

Think it might have gone a big off the rails there at the end. Isn't 28800 kilobytes roughly 28.8 megabytes, depending on how you define your kilos?

Two hours isn't much but I listen to todayfm quite a lot on their app or tunein radio. I think the bitrate is 96kbps so 1.5 times the figures above and it eats pretty quickly through my 2 gig plan.

guil

arch_stanton wrote: »

Think it might have gone a big off the rails there at the end. Isn't 28800 kilobytes roughly 28.8 megabytes, depending on how you define your kilos?

Two hours isn't much but I listen to todayfm quite a lot on their app or tunein radio. I think the bitrate is 96kbps so 1.5 times the figures above and it eats pretty quickly through my 2 gig plan.

http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/basicnetworking/f/bitsandbytes.htm

GhostInTheRuins

arch_stanton wrote: »

Think it might have gone a big off the rails there at the end. Isn't 28800 kilobytes roughly 28.8 megabytes, depending on how you define your kilos?

Two hours isn't much but I listen to todayfm quite a lot on their app or tunein radio. I think the bitrate is 96kbps so 1.5 times the figures above and it eats pretty quickly through my 2 gig plan.

Wolfram alpha to the rescue. http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=96kbps+for+two+hours&x=-285&y=-150

Creamy Goodness

if you have to worry about radio streaming and your data cap, you're on the wrong plan.

Kensington

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Assuming a 64kbps stream, that's 3840 kilobits per minute and 230400 per hour.

That's 28800 kilobytes, or 3.6 Mb per hour. There will be additional data, but not much.

So its nothing on these fancy all-you-can-eat data plans.

64Kilobits/sec = 8 KiloBytes/sec
=== 480 KiloBytes/min
=== 28,800 KiloBytes/hour
=== 28 MegaBytes/hour

Rough rule of thumb, a 128Kb stream = 60MB/hour.

Tom Dunne

Kensington wrote: »

64Kilobits/sec = 8 KiloBytes/sec
=== 480 KiloBytes/min
=== 28,800 KiloBytes/hour
=== 28 MegaBytes/hour

Rough rule of thumb, a 128Kb stream = 60MB/hour.

Oops, I divided by 8 instead of 1024.