windows version of iplayer - output format

[Christopher Woods]

For what it's worth, the iPlayer uses AAC audio for all radio (in an M4A 
wrapper) - if your media player can handle M4A, and if it's vaguely modern 
it should, then I urge you to keep the original quality AAC downloads.

If you ask get_iplayer to convert them to MP3, it will download the 
compressed AAC then *recompress* to MP3 yielding inferior quality audio.

Regards
Chris


On 6 May 2014 09:44:37 "Chris Marriott" <chris at chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Rod Crittenden
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 9:31 AM
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: windows version of iplayer - output format
>
> >Hi:
> >
> >I have the windows installer version of get-iplayer.
> >
> >downloading from radio broadcasts...  the resulting file is of the format
> >m4a.
> >
> >Can anyone advise me how to set up the iplayer so that the output format is
> >mp3 ?
>
> Simply add the "aactomp3" flag to the command line (ie add --aactomp3). You 
> can apply this automatically by editing the "options" file in the folder 
> "C:\Users\All Users\get_iplayer" and adding the line:
>
> aactomp3 1
>
> to the file.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Chris
>
>
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