Greatest Hits

Canadian oldies radio serves a particular listening demographic - people who came of age between the 1970s and 1990s and who haven't switched formats as they aged. Greatest Hits feeds that audience by rotating through classic rock standards (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Eagles), 80s pop hits (Michael Jackson, Prince, Duran Duran), and 90s alternative that's aged into 'classic' status (Nirvana, Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots). Streams at 57 kilobits. Technical limitations are real here. Lower bitrate means compression artifacts in complex passages, reduced detail in the frequency extremes. But it…