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What mp3 quality do you want?

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Clitheroe KidJul 22, 2009
 

 
The BBC *has* already switched to AAC. If you play a file using Windows, the
BBC's iPlayer plays a flash (flv) stream containing an AAC encoded file.
(Right-clicking on the iPlayer window shows what codec is being employed).

Get_iPlayer is set to default to downloading the mp3 stream that's sent to
Apple mobile phones, by mimicking one. Which means that using the default
settings for get_iplayer gives you an mp3 file download.

But it's theoretically possible to reconfigure get_iplayer to download the
AAC stream, instead of the Apple iPhone mp3 stream.

However, on Windows 9x I've yet to figure out how to achieve this. I'm told
by Win XP users that it is possible, but FLVstreamer doesn't seem to be able
to do it under Windows ME.

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From: "charles_454545" <charles@...>
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Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:42 PM
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: What mp3 quality do you want?


> > Better yet would be to rip the stream - in other words, to download the
exact stream broadcast on iPlayer (as it is higher quality than on DAB),
which avoids the compression process altogether. The file does as a result
have the full 36 minutes broadcast on it, but with use of particular tools
you can trim the excess without loss of audio quality.
>
> That makes sense, but the JAM streams I get from both iPlayer and ABC RN
are realaudio, which for better or worse is not a very portable/common
compression format. If the BBC ever gets around to switching to AAC as
they've discussed, IMO saving the raw feed would be exactly the thing to do.

 
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