Radio Downloads to m4a

[Jon Davies]

On 24 July 2016 at 13:25, Mike Casswell <mike at nutwood.net> wrote:
> From the release295 release notes:
>
> 'DASH radio downloads are M4A files, but they are still re-muxed with
> ffmpeg by default in order to make the files palatable to AtomicParsley
> for metadata tagging. Downloading with --raw will produce M4A files.'
and the release notes go on to say that HLS radio downloads in raw
produce .ts files.

so, for radio, you have a choice of m4a that doesn't play well, m4a
that does, or .ts.  Not .mp3.

in general, the transcoding options in get-iplayer are deprecated -
get-iplayer is designed to download programmes, not transcode them.

If you want something other than the formats that get-iplayer
produces, you can use the --command option along with your favourite
transcoder to change the format after download.

see
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#custom-commands
and also
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#substitution-parameters

But for now, the aactomp3 option is still there and will do what you
need, until the next version.

Jon