BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

2011-03-12 Thread Steve
Hi Guys, just noticed this in the last few days, and my Sansa mp3 player cant play AAC. I use Ubuntu Hardy which is usually quite robust in coping with the BBC fiddling around with formats. I did a bit of googling and now have a cron script running once a day doing the following: # Move WMA

Re: BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

2011-03-12 Thread Shevek
You should really do this from the aac not from the wma as I believe the wma is encoded from the aac in the first place (someone may correct me!). So you are running a lossy conversion on a file which is already a lossy conversion. On 12 March 2011 17:29, Steve startrek.st...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Marriott
-Original Message- From: Steve Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 5:29 PM To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3 I'm worried about this Iplayer replacement the BBC is bringing out at the end of March - Youview, will this

Re: BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

2011-03-12 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 12/3/2011, at 6:49pm, Steve wrote: Shevek wrote: You should really do this from the aac not from the wma as I believe the wma is encoded from the aac in the first place (someone may correct me!). So you are running a lossy conversion on a file which is already a lossy conversion.

Re: BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

2011-03-12 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 12/3/2011, at 6:09pm, Chris Marriott wrote: I'm worried about this Iplayer replacement the BBC is bringing out at the end of March - Youview, will this sound the death knell for Get_Iplayer on Radio? it sure looks like it will kill the TV downloads, anyone heard anything? Oh dear,

Re: BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

2011-03-12 Thread Steve
bat guano wrote: Hi Stev My Ubuntu Karmic Koala Linux downloads the aac radio shows. Probably you haven't got RTMPDump installed. Yeah, Im still running Hardy thats probably why, I really dont mind, quality is fine for spoken word. Steve ___