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Re: iPlayer radio bitrates

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James R CurryMar 3, 2017
 
 
Interesting --

The brand new Dash AAC streams and the existing HLS AAC streams are both 320kbps.  I'd certainly take a 320kbps AAC file over a 384kbps MP2 file, as the quality should be better due to improvements in the more modern codec.  In fact, MP3 dropped supported for 384kbps for much the same reason -- a 320kbps MP3 will sound superior to a 384kbps MP2 in most cases.

Do you happen to know the underlying codec used in the MPEG or TS files?  I suspect that it's the same 384kbps MP2 data, but I haven't grabbed the files to double check.

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Clitheroe Kid clitheroekid@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:
Get_iPlayer is sometimes useful, but for the full bitrate stream - the 384 kbps stream - you need other solutions.

Here is a very straightforward way to get that stream with radio downloads from BBC iPlayer -
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ bridip/clitheroe/iplayer.htm


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From: just-a-minute@... <just-a-minute@... > on behalf of James R Curry scratchy@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@... >
Sent: 08 December 2016 15:10
To: just-a-minute@...
Subject: [just-a-minute] iPlayer radio bitrates

I'm reviving a dead topic!

Remember when I said that the iPlayer serves a better radio bitrate to listeners in the UK, and you all laughed?

Well, okay, very politely corrected me.

It turns out I was right!

Although I'm not so much telling you this to gloat, and more as helpful information for those who download shows from the iPlayer.  Anyway, there's a guide to formats for get_iplayer here.  I think part of the confusion may have been that you need a recent build of get_iplayer to grab the 320kbps stream:

https://github.com/get- iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/ modesref

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James R Curry
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