Radio Downloads to m4a

Vangelis forthnet northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr
Sun Jul 24 14:10:18 PDT 2016


On Sun Jul 24 20:18:44 BST 2016, Jon Davies wrote: 

> so, for radio, you have a choice of 
> m4a that doesn't play well, 

...for those not in the know, the .m4a 
audio files (tagless) produced with 

--radiomode=dash --raw
 
are valid MP4 (audio-only) files, but 
with a new-ish format/type of "iso6-dash"; 
VLC 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 3.0.0-nightly can play 
them fine, so can a few other software 
players on Windows (MPC-BE, DAUM 
PotPlayer), but the majority of software/ 
hardware media players will burf on them...

> m4a that does, or .ts.  Not .mp3.

For completeness, one should also add 
.flv (audio-only) files, produced with 

--radiomode=flash --raw

flash(tv|radio) modes were the default on 
GiP 2.94, so --raw yielded FLV files back then...

Cheers, 
Vangelis.



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