-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Woods
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 11:56 AM
To: Chris Marriott ; [email protected]
Subject: Re: windows version of iplayer - output format
For what it's worth, the iPlayer uses AAC audio for all radio (in an M4A
wrapper) - if your media player can handle M4A, and if it's vaguely modern
it should, then I urge you to keep the original quality AAC downloads.
If you ask get_iplayer to convert them to MP3, it will download the
compressed AAC then *recompress* to MP3 yielding inferior quality audio.
True, and certainly a consideration if you're recording music. I, however,
only ever record radio drama and spoken word programmes, so not an issue for
me at all. The recompressed MP3 is absolutely fine, quality-wise, for
speech.
Chris
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