AAC audio: MP3 transcoding as backup option

[dinkypumpkin]

Dave - BG has done me the service of giving the actual ffmpeg command used.  AFter futzing around with several permutations, it seemed simplest and best to just do a transcode governed by bitrate at 128k.  If your experience is different, chime in.

On 16 Mar 2011, at 21:53, bat guano wrote:

>> To check, is this the same as using ffmpeg to convert?
>> 
> Yes Dave, it uses ffmpeg to do the job.
> Almost the same command as your batch file.
> ffmpeg -i filename.aac -vn -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 128k output.mp3