How to download 96kbps HE-AAC radio 3 stream?

John Warburton john at johnwarburton.com
Tue Apr 19 09:58:00 PDT 2016


On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 4:35 PM, ChenZhe <t-64 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am out of UK, so normally I could only download in 'hlsaaclow' and 'flashaaclow' mode which are of 48kbps HE-AAC quality @ 48kHz.
> However, the aac stream embedded in flash player is of better quality which is  96kbps HE-AAC @ 44kHz. An example link is:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0770h0q
> What is the correspondent mode to download the 44kHz 96kbps stream ?

Hi,

Have you tried:

get_iplayer --info --pid b0770h0q

This, for me, lists all the modes available which might include
higher-bandwidth streams. For example, flashhigh is 320kbit/s LC-AAC,
while hlsstd is 128kbit/s LC-AAC.

J



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