Sad to hear that . How are the public broadcast companies doing it down there ? here in Sweden SR had always had meticulous archiving standards and always done their best, nothing stored in a lossy format afiak .The other big issue with FM (here) is the compression used a) when they originally ripped/stored the files and b) the compressors used in the transmission. They suck the life out of the music. Their catalogue of music were often ripped and stored from CD back in the early days using heavy compression due to HDD space being expensive. Much of that has been migrated (and sometimes re-coded from the original compressed file) to other storage, but all the CDs were long disposed of.
The sound quality just isn't there as it once was back in the day when playing direct from CD when a DJ played a 'not for resale' disc he played for the first time to his listeners on a pro CD player live on a late night show.
I had a big chat with one of the broadcast engineers several years back for one of our biggest stations and he admitted they were actually in the process of gradually re-obtaining as much of the music as possible to store as lossless going forward.
The compression codecs they were using were audibly brutal due to the bandwidth capabilities of the links, particularly when doing OB (outside broadcast) "live" shows. I'd never really considered how such shows were done, say at an event, where the DJs/Personalities are live on air and playing/controlling content, links to the newsroom and all the music, reports etc. The music was making the trip from the studio storage servers, through the wireless link, to the OB location, sometimes 50km away, then back to the studio and then linked to the transmitter site which was on a mountain another 25km away. It was done in bursts with the ability to retransmit if packets got corrupted to ensure the content wasn't interrupted.
After listening to a few tracks I really knew well sounding like absolute trash, I realized none of it would get fixed as there was no appetite for quality FM anymore. I was the only person who had ever complained and taken the time to let their 'engineer' know how bad the off-air sound was. He didn't even have an off-air high quality tuner. They just listened to the studio feed on a laptop over the internet... I figured it was time to place flowers on the grave of FM at that point.
Our commercial stations are so bad that i doubt they have any kind of archive
So in Sweden you can listen to FM if you listen to SR the public broadcast company , otherwise the risk of suicide by car is to great , it would be sad to drive into a buss
And yes SR has more reasonable personalities to , you don't lose all hope of humanity listening to them .
And I listen to FM in the car at home SR has quite the good streaming quality over internet ( I use LMS and Squeezeboxes ) so it would not make sense .