windows version of iplayer - output format

[Chris Marriott]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Christopher Woods
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 11:56 AM
To: Chris Marriott ; get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: windows version of iplayer - output format

>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.

True, and certainly a consideration if you're recording music. I, however, 
only ever record radio drama and spoken word programmes, so not an issue for 
me at all. The recompressed MP3 is absolutely fine, quality-wise, for 
speech.

Chris