Tidying up Radio Downloads

RS richard22j at zoho.com
Wed Aug 23 14:49:27 PDT 2017


> On 23/08/2017 03:26, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
>> >You can always (re-)tag the edited file afterwards...
>>
> Hi Vangelis
> 
> I have to confess my complete ignorance of tags.  I have often wondered 
> if I generate my own ffmpeg commands, for example to convert a file to 
> MP3 or to extract part of a file, rather than let get_iplayer do it 
> using the example preset in the wiki to replace aactomp3, whether I am 
> at risk of losing tags or metadata.  The reason for my concern is that 
> there seems to be a lot of code in get_iplayer to process metadata, 
> although I can't pretend to understand what it all does.  Am I worrying 
> unnecessarily?
> 
> Best wishes
> Richard
> 

Please ignore on level of >.  I have had great difficulty sending this 
message and I can't be bothered to edit it yet again.




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