Re: Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable...

2015-07-20 Thread Roger Rarebit
Having looked at particular a radio programme (e.g. Food Programme) I've noticed that the files on the iplayer radio app are twice the size of the ones available to get_iplayer. Any idea why this would be? Roger ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable...

2015-07-20 Thread Roger Rarebit
Having looked at particular a radio programme (e.g. Food Programme) I've noticed that the files on the iplayer radio app are twice the size of the ones available to get_iplayer. Any idea why this would be? Roger ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable...

2015-07-20 Thread Roger Rarebit
I use the maximum quality I can get from get_iplayer. Here's the entry for the programme: default: flashaaclow1=11MB,flashaaclow2=11MB,flashaacstd1=23MB,flashaacstd2=23MB,hlsaaclow1=13MB,hlsaacstd1=26MB iPlayer radio app download version is 60MB If there's a way to get higher bitrates please

Re: Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable...

2015-07-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:24:02AM +0100, Roger Rarebit wrote: Having looked at particular a radio programme (e.g. Food Programme) I've noticed that the files on the iplayer radio app are twice the size of the ones available to get_iplayer. Any idea why this would be? It's probably just

Re: Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable...

2015-07-20 Thread SquarePenguin
On 20/07/2015 17:13, Vangelis forthnet wrote: Doesn't the app come with any indication at all for the audio bitrate being played back? No, not that I can see. I downloaded an episode of Infinite Monkey Cage and it was 70MB for 27 min and 51 seconds. An uneducated guess is that the bit rate

Re: Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable...

2015-07-20 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Fri Jul 17 22:50:25 BST 2015, CJB wrote: Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable More on this on the BBC Blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/4eba16ca-f1e8-4744-a305-7a31b3804535 And it's only for iOS (=7.1), Android (=4.1) and Kindle Fire (HDX =HD 3rd gen

Re: Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable...

2015-07-20 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Mon Jul 20 17:41:10 BST 2015, SquarePenguin wrote: I downloaded an episode of Infinite Monkey Cage and it was 70MB for 27 min and 51 seconds. Yes, you are right! I did my own searching on the net, since I can't try the app myself, and found many references, among which this:

Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable...

2015-07-17 Thread CJB
Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable - according to this Radio Times article: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-07-14/you-can-now-download-your-favourite-bbc-radio-shows We'll have to see how this works for non-UK listeners. CJB