Radio 4 recordings

[Alexis Huxley]

> Ah! I think that might be the problem. I assume so. I mean, I would be glad to troubleshoot this further if you relocate your computer to the UK and can still reproduce the download failure, but non-UK IPs are unsupported.

:-) No, that's fine, I'll stick with downloading and converting.

> You might find that the AAC files are better, one way or the other, than WMV. AAC is an open format, and open-source media software tends to like it, much better than WMV. I would tend to assume (rightly or wrongly) that the quality of the AAC versions would be higher, and lots of portable music players play them, too, now.

Okay, noted. I think for the time being I stick with MP3 as the final
format, but might switch to AAC->MP3 rather than the current WMA->MP3.

> >> You would help me out a great deal if you're able to determine whether this file plays ok on a Mac or Windows. I would hazard that it plays fine on just about every Linux media player (although if you use speakers &/or a GUI in Linux and you've never tried double-clicking on one of get_iplayer's .aac files then I'd be grateful if you'd try that, too).
> > 
> > For MAC and Windows, I can get back to you tomorrow to confirm (no
> > MACs or Windows at home).
> 
> Thanks. That would be very helpful.

I coopted a colleague with Windows and Mac access to check this, the
results of which were:

	only plays in vlc
	on which platform?
	win mac
	and what other players did you try?
	itune, windows media player, quictime

HTH and thanks again!

Alexis