Please see below ... On 03/12/2019 09:51, Jim Lesurf wrote:
I' ve now switched to using the new version of GIP and using the 'DASH' approach for fetching. Many thanks for the new version. :-)For TV this works fine. And for *most* radio it also works fine. But since I'm writing this you'll have guessed there is a trailing, "...however..." :-) Using " --type=radio --mode=daf " I can get 320k aac from R4/3 fine. But when I tried some World Service examples ('More or Less") they came as 96k aac. So far I can't find a sign or way of getting them as 320k. I'm pretty sure I could get 320k from WS in the past. And the last time I checked, Scotland was still within the UK. So am I doing something wrong, or has something changed, or do I mis-remember... or is there a way now to get 320k from WS?
Yes, I've noticed this too. Fortunately for me, the only WS item I download is "Science In Action", which usually I delete after I've listened to it, so, as long as the quality is good enough to be listenable, I don't really mind.
However, like you, I'm beginning to get concerned at the moving deck-chairs because it usually means that something good disappears and what we're left with is not as good. The loss of hi-def audio in hi-def video is a classic case in point: Why would *anyone* think that the quality of the audio track is any less important than the quality of the video track, *especially* where music is concerned, such as with the Proms? Given the above, I didn't bother to download the TV version of a single prom this year.
The above also makes me wonder if this is the reason that increasingly I find I have to turn the volume up when watching TV, because words get lost in the 'mush'. Of course, I'm getter older too, but I've particularly noticed this on downloads from the beginning of this year, so I'm beginning to suspect that the problem is the poor quality of the audio tracks. When watching on my bedside TV, I used to have the volume slider about a third of the way across, but now it's more like half, and yet *still* I find that words are swallowed up and I have to 'rewind', and listen to a sentence again with the volume turned up so loud that it would be uncomfortable to keep it so for any length of time.
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