Radio File Format Questions

[Chris Marriott]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 1:37 PM
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Radio File Format Questions

>If I can humbly share my opinion, I have found that a transcode from
>HE-AACv2 @48kbps -> LAME MP3 @ 96kbps (for spoken content) /
>112 (or even 128) kbps (for music content) is more than adequate and I 
>would
>propose that, since your SneakyDS does play MP3 files.

What do we get if we use the "aactomp3" flag on "get_iplayer"? That's the 
way that I've always done it personally, and the results are entirely 
satisfactory (to my ear) for spoken word programmes (which are all I ever 
download).

Chris