On 24/09/2020 10:49, Dave Lambley wrote: >> On 09/24/2020 10:25 AM Budge <aje...@errichel.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >> On 23/09/2020 09:55, Roger Bell_West wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:16:10AM +0100, budge wrote: >>>> I have now found that minimserver, which runs in the NAS and serves the >>>> music >>>> data to my LAN and thence to my renderers, is not supported by .opus. I >>>> can >>>> use AAC files so will download them to .aac or should that be .m4a. No >>>> hardship and glad I found out now. >>> >>> It can be both. aac is an encoding format; m4a is a container format. >>> For example if I ffprobe the latest Brain of Britain (obtained via >>> GIP) I get: >>> >>> Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, >>> stereo, fltp, 320 kb/s (default) >>> >>> This is an AAC-encoded stream in an m4a container. >>> >> >> Hi Roger, >> Life in never simple! My choice of .opus was frustrated by lack of >> support for my media server and author advises he will not likely be >> adding .opus. >> >> I therefore went with .aac as the next best option. >> >> I now find that if I wish to include thumbnails I can only use .m4a (or >> .mp4). >> >> I appreciate thumbnails do nothing for sound but they do make searching >> easier so looks like .m4a is the way to go. Pity I just downloaded 18 >> files to .aac. >> >> My only other comment for now is that the metadata that comes with the >> download is very poor and very short on the info I have been used to. I >> think the problem is that whilst CD tagging is fairly well supported, >> the YouTube videos are often prepared for a different audience but I had >> hoped that at least the artists would be named. >> If there are ways of improving this I would appreciate advice. > > If you have ffmpeg and AtomicParsley installed, youtube-dl can repack the > audio in to an .m4a for you, and give you some very rudimentary tagging. > > Try, > > ./youtube-dl -x --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata -f m4a > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L993HNAa8M > > Dave > Hi all, Many thanks. I use ffmpeg and AtomicParsley if not using the youtube-dl options and the tagging works fine but the tag metadata from youtube is pathetic. OTOH classical music tagging is always a problem and takes more time than anything other than listening! Regards, Budge
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