GUI Tool to Easily Convert AAC to MP3
I agree that AAC is a higher quality format, but the poor quality of MP3 files is irrelevant to me as I only listen to speech radio and I reduce the quality even further to keep the files small. I find that 56kbits/s at 22,050Hz stereo is fine for listening on my MP3 player. So I have been looking for an easy way to convert from AAC to MP3. I have found a GUI front end for FFMPEG called WinFF which works very well for me (Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit). It allows you to select a group of files in the GUI and then uses FFMPEG to perform the conversion. I haven't tested this, but it also claims to work for Windows 95, 98 , ME, NT, XP, VISTA, and Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat based GNU/Linux distributions. It appears to be completely free - I can't find any way of making a donation. The web-site is: http://winff.org/html_new/ ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?
On 10/3/2011, at 11:00pm, Christopher Woods (CustomMade) wrote: >> ... >> get_iplayer's .aac files are, admittedly, in a bad or broken >> container. >> That does need fixing, although it should be pretty easy. > > If you're more of a GUI person (like me, albeit purely out of laziness) > FLVExtract makes light work of extracting the .aac files from the .flv > wrappers. Drag, drop, done. Well, at present I think get_iplayer tries to remux and is doing it wrong. I believe it is broken. Surely you must be using --raw to get the .flv files? I think that, by default, using `--radiomode flashaachigh,flashaacstd` you get these files with an .aac extension which don't work on some systems (Mac Quicktime Player, Windows Media Player?). Convert them using the command I gave before and they still have an .aac extension, but they play in those media players (I think). What slightly bothers me is that get_iplayer probably adds metadata, "artist" and "title" tags, to the .aac file - probably even a show thumbnail. Converting blindly with `mplayer -dumpaudio` will surely lose that, so the longer I'm lazy and ignoring fixing the problem, the larger my collection of shows with potentially-missing tags becomes. aB. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
RE: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?
> -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org > [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of > Andy Bircumshaw > Sent: 10 March 2011 21:15 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4? > > > On 10/3/2011, at 9:03pm, ZULU wrote: > > ... > > FWIW, I find .aac a pain in the rear end, simply because my > mp3 player ignores them, so I have to fart about transcoding > them first. > > get_iplayer's .aac files are, admittedly, in a bad or broken > container. > That does need fixing, although it should be pretty easy. If you're more of a GUI person (like me, albeit purely out of laziness) FLVExtract makes light work of extracting the .aac files from the .flv wrappers. Drag, drop, done. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?
On 10/3/2011, at 9:03pm, ZULU wrote: > ... > FWIW, I find .aac a pain in the rear end, simply because my mp3 player > ignores them, so I have to fart about transcoding them first. get_iplayer's .aac files are, admittedly, in a bad or broken container. That does need fixing, although it should be pretty easy. You may find the player recognises them after you do: mplayer -ao null -vo null -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio_file_fixed.aac original_audio_file.aac aB. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
RE: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?
> > On 10/3/2011, at 5:12pm, Chris Marriott wrote: > > ... > > Same here. Luckily, downloading as "flashaacstd" seems to work, and > > iTunes converts the resulting AAC files to MP3 easily enough, but > > still it's a bit of a nuisance. We seem to be having things chipped > > away, one thing at a time. > > I don't really see much cause for complaint. > > MP3 might be inconvenient for you, but the AAC files are > better quality. > The BBC are not "chipping something away" here (only > *perhaps* removing a poorer format). Wholeheartedly agree - the BBC's own MP3 encodes are vastly inferior in audio quality to their AAC counterparts. I've done comparison and analysis of this in the past; the relevant post is on the list archives: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-February/000865.html Listen to the audio file I've linked to to hear the quality difference. Transcoding using your own application will likely give you a better result; at the least, you still have the original (and highest) quality AAC file to refer back to should you wish to transcode it differently again. The BBC's MP3 transcoding quality on iPlayer audio files is simply dire, I'm glad it's dying a death. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?
On 10/3/2011, at 5:12pm, Chris Marriott wrote: > ... > Same here. Luckily, downloading as “flashaacstd” seems to work, and iTunes > converts the resulting AAC files to MP3 easily enough, but still it’s a bit > of a nuisance. We seem to be having things chipped away, one thing at a > time. I don't really see much cause for complaint. MP3 might be inconvenient for you, but the AAC files are better quality. The BBC are not "chipping something away" here (only *perhaps* removing a poorer format). If the problem is with get_iplayer, then, yes, get_iplayer is going to suffer from bitrot. No-one wants to maintain it. So if the BBC change the iPlayer website in some way, get_iplayer will not be updated to accommodate that unless you or I make suitable changes to get_iplayer's program code. To write get_iplayer again from scratch would be a *huge* undertaking. It would cost you £ thousands to commission it as a paying job from a programmer. We can assess this further when we know more about the future of iPlayer and Project Canvas / YouView. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouView aB. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?
-Original Message- From: ZULU Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:24 AM To: Jeremy Bartle ; get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4? Yestoday (March 10th) BBC 4 *Afternoon Play* downloaded as .aac instead if .mp3 <_very_ annoying!> My *Recording* settings are : flashaudio,flashhd,flashvhigh,flashaachigh,flashaacstd,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,realaudio,flashaaclow I use the WebPVR Manager in Windows XP Pro Please excuse typos. VIP Rog Same here. Luckily, downloading as “flashaacstd” seems to work, and iTunes converts the resulting AAC files to MP3 easily enough, but still it’s a bit of a nuisance. We seem to be having things chipped away, one thing at a time. Anyone know WHY “flashaudio” mode no longer works? Cheers, Chris ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?
- Original Message - From: "Jeremy Bartle" To: Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:33 AM Subject: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4? When I tried to download some BBC Radio 7 and BBC Radio 4 programmes today using flashaudio mode, the BBC 7 ones worked as normal, but the BBC Radio 4 programmes were not found using this mode. I eventually downloaded them using flashaacstd1, which is inconvenient as I then had to convert them to MP3. Has anyone else had this problem? Yestoday (March 10th) BBC 4 *Afternoon Play* downloaded as .aac instead if .mp3 <_very_ annoying!> My *Recording* settings are : flashaudio,flashhd,flashvhigh,flashaachigh,flashaacstd,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,realaudio,flashaaclow I use the WebPVR Manager in Windows XP Pro Please excuse typos. VIP Rog ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
