BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

Andy Bircumshaw andy at networkned.co.uk
Sat Mar 12 14:14:51 EST 2011


On 12/3/2011, at 6:49pm, Steve wrote:
> Shevek wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Well thats what the Linux version of Get_Iplayer converts it to, if theres no MP3  version available, quality is fine to me, I only download Documentaries & Drama, no music.

--radiomode flashaachigh,flashaacstd

Stroller.




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