BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

[Shevek]

You should really do this from the aac not from the wma as I believe
the wma is encoded from the aac in the first place (someone may
correct me!).

So you are running a lossy conversion on a file which is already a
lossy conversion.

On 12 March 2011 17:29, Steve <startrek.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> just noticed this in the last few days, and my Sansa mp3 player cant play
> AAC. I use Ubuntu Hardy which is usually quite robust in coping with the BBC
> fiddling around with formats. I did a bit of googling and now have a cron
> script running once a day doing the following:
>
> # Move WMA files to Conversion Folder (WMA)
> 30 01,07,10,17 * * 1-5 mv -f /home/steve/iplayer/*.wma
> /home/steve/iplayer/WMA 2>>/tmp/wma-move.log
>
> # Convert WMA Files to MP3
> 45 17 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/soundconverter -b -m audio/mpeg -s .mp3
> /home/steve/iplayer/WMA/*.wma
>
> # Move Converted MP3 Files from WMA Folder Back to MP3 Folder
> 30 18 * * 1-5 mv -f /home/steve/iplayer/WMA/*.mp3 /home/steve/iplayer
>
> This now leaves me with nice mp3's again, all you need to install is
> soundconverter.
> I'm worried about this Iplayer replacement the BBC is bringing out at the
> end of March - Youview, will this sound the death knell for Get_Iplayer on
> Radio? it sure looks like it will kill the TV downloads, anyone heard
> anything?
> Steve
>
>
>
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