Getting radio into iTunes and onto an iPhone

[geoff.getiplayer_list at alphaworks.co.uk]

On 23/03/2011 23:55, Shevek wrote:
> On 23 March 2011 23:06,<geoff.getiplayer_list at alphaworks.co.uk>  wrote:
>> I'm trying to get BBC radio programmes into iTunes and onto my iPhone under
>> Windows XP. Now that we can't get MP3s I'm a little confused...
>>
>> While I understand I can use FFMPEG to convert into MP3s the AACs that are
>> downloaded, from what I've gleaned from this list I'm not sure this is the
>> best solution. As I understand it, converting from AAC to MP3 is transcoding
>> which is lossy and time-consuming. Can someone explain to me what these AAC
>> files are and why iTunes won't recognise them (it fails silently)? I get the
>> impression iTunes should handle AAC but is this an issue of containers /
>> codecs?
>>
>> I tried the advice given in
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-March/000928.html (
>> mplayer -ao null -vo null -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio_file_fixed.aac
>> original_audio_file.aac ) which turned a 43MB (120 minutes flashaaclow) AAC
>> file into a 2.6MB AAC file. Given the size of the output file I was
>> sceptical that this had worked but it seems to play and be complete, why did
>> this shink the file so much? Was this remuxing or something else? iTunes
>> still won't import the file so that doesn't seem to be a solution.
>>
>> Any explanations of the issues here (mainly about AAC I think...) would be
>> much appreciated!
>>
> The .aac file downloaded is a raw AAC format with ADTS headers. iTunes
> supports neither raw AAC nor ADTS headers.
>
> There is an option in ffmpeg which can be used to strip the header and
> re-pack the AAC into an MP4 container losslessly
>
> ffmpeg.exe -i input.aac -vn -acodec copy -absf aac_adtstoasc output.m4a
>
> This definitely works with my iPhone 3GS but YMMV with other iDevices

Excellent, this imports and plays in iTunes and on the iPhone (4).

All I'm lacking now is tags, is there any way to get these in the file? 
Alternatively, can anyone suggest how I can manually set tags for this file?

Many thanks!
Geoff