Sometimes DAB radio stations are playing music that skips like a CD, repeating a short segment like a broken record. It often goes on for quite some time, which is a bit puzzling because surely there is nothing about digital radio tech that would cause this. The skipping never happens during talk radio, only with music....
The skipping is signal quality. In DAB each successful audio packet is either fully received or not at all, when you have marginal signal some packets will be OK and some skipped.
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when DAB radio skips like a broken CD/record
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