Using get_iplayer as a Conversion Tool

[Kapitano]

There's a free program here that might help:

http://winff.org/html_new/

It uses the same utility for conversion as Get_Iplayer - FFMpeg - but it 
can also handle batch processing, and it's somewhat easier to use.

(There's another program called Super 
(http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html), which does the same thing, but 
it installs a registry scanner whether you want it or not, plus it 
sometimes crashes.)

After you've installed WinFF:

* Click the 'Options' button to get the row of extra tabs including 
'Video', 'Audio', 'Time' etc.

* Click on the 'Convert to' dropdown menu and select 'Audio'

* Click on the 'Preset' dropdown menu and select 'MP3'

* CLick on '...' next to 'Output Folder', and find or create the place 
you want your converted files to go.

* Click on the 'Audio' tab.

* Type 128 next to 'Audio Bitrate'. (If it's just a speech broadcast you 
want to encode, you can use 64. Some classical music shows might benefit 
from being coded as 192)

* For sample rate, enter 44100.

* For audio channels, enter 2. If you want a mono mp3, enter 1.

* Drag all the files you want to encode into the window, check all the 
settings are right, and click the 'Convert' button.

You should get a Dos window popping up which looks rather like the 
Get_Iplayer window. It's not incredibly fast, but should be a lot faster 
than what you've used before.

Let me know if there's any trouble.