BBC Radio 3 podcast quality

[Clive]

On 24/10/17 08:32, Simon Morgan wrote:
> On BBC Radio 3 last week, the Composer of the Week was Puccini. Donald
> MacCleod interviewed Antonio Pappano in between the various clips. All these
> interviews are available as a Podcast which I have downloaded. The audio
> quality is 128 kb/s while the original broadcast is 320 kb/s. The quality
> difference is not critical in my opinion as it is mostly speech but I would
> be interested to know if podcasts can be downloaded at a higher quality.
> 
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> 
In my experience podcasts come as they come and they come 128K (and on 
occasion, 64K). The original programs can be downloaded via gip and they 
are available as 320K.

Clive