Re: Why M4a and not mp4?

2012-11-14 Thread Chris Marriott
Quoting "Christopher Woods (CM)" : Yikes, enjoy that double-compressed sound? ;-) It's so ... squishy. Sounds fine to me, but all I record are the spoken voice programmes (audio books and drama) on Radio 4 and 4 Extra. Perhaps it wouldn't be so good for music. Cheers, Chris ___

Re: Why M4a and not mp4?

2012-11-14 Thread Christopher Woods (CM)
Google would be your friend here. M4A and MP4 have the same container format. The M4A extension is just a naming convention for audio-only files, a convention to which get_iplayer adheres. For whatever reasons, some players won't recognise the M4A extension, so rename. Personally I always

Re: Why M4a and not mp4?

2012-11-14 Thread Chris Marriott
-Original Message- From: dinkypumpkin Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:29 PM To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Why M4a and not mp4? Google would be your friend here. M4A and MP4 have the same container format. The M4A extension is just a naming convention for

Re: Why M4a and not mp4?

2012-11-14 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 13/11/2012 23:27, Alastair wrote: I am advised that a file containing audio data only in AAC format can be named either .mp4 or .m4a because it fits correctly into both the .mp4 and .m4a categories. Most servers, control points and music players understand this, but there are a few that ins

Why M4a and not mp4?

2012-11-13 Thread Alastair
I am advised that a file containing audio data only in AAC format can be named either .mp4 or .m4a because it fits correctly into both the .mp4 and .m4a categories. Most servers, control points and music players understand this, but there are a few that insist on one of other of these filetyp