windows version of iplayer - output format

[Rod Crittenden]

Thanks for all your responses

First....   I want to get MP3 because that is the format that can be used by
my hifi and tv to get stuff from PC around the house.

Chris...  your info about " aactomp32 in an options file sounds perfect,
except I do not seem to have an options file where you say there may be one.
Can you expand on that a bit more...  what is the name of the file and could
it be elsewhere ( under programs (x86) for instance ).

Thanks for your help 

Rod
  

-----Original Message-----
From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf
Of Chris Marriott
Sent: 06 May 2014 14:01
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: windows version of iplayer - output format

-----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


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