> 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 _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer