Comments on: BBC iPlayer AAC Radio streams now available using get_iplayer

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:22:31 +0000

See https://linuxcentre.net/iplayersearch

By: Bruno

Bruno — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:26:12 +0000

Where can I find the stream addresses?

I listen often to Swiss Radio, they publish stream addresses like
http://stream.srg-ssr.ch/regi_ag_so/aacp_64.m3u
which I copy into the VLC player (Ubuntu 09.10) and get the music right in to enjoy.

Now I search the stream addresses for some british stations, mainly classic and jazz, no pop. Perhaps local news (Radio Scotland).

Any idea?

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:43:00 +0000

Using FFmpeg version SVN-r19352-4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2 (from Karmic Koala)

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:42:27 +0000

I just checked this again. It works for a radio3 classical programme (192kbps AAC) and a normal 128k AAC file to flac without a single error. I used:

ffmpeg -i in.aac out.flac
ffmpeg -i in.aac out.wav

By: james

james — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:23:44 +0000

does this really work? In my experience ffmpeg (I have the latest version from paehl.com) still crashes when processing these AAC files, with an SBR not implemented error.

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:50:06 +0000

You can use ffmpeg to convert to flac or wav.

By: Mugsy

Mugsy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:49:04 +0000

Success: using Quicktime Pro, one can open the iPlayer AAC files, then use the Export command – make sure it’s set to Audio, and check that you can see ‘Passthrough’ mentioned in the information at the bottom of the screen – then just export to MP4. Give it a new file name so it doesn’t over-write the existing file.

Hope this is of help to someone

By: Mugsy

Mugsy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:42:55 +0000

p.s. found out quicktime CAN play ADTS files (so why can’t iTunes? arghhhh!). I will see if Quicktime has an export/passthrough feature to MP4.

By: Mugsy

Mugsy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:39:03 +0000

Found the problem: the high quality AAC streams from iPlayer (on BBC 7) or AAC, in the ADTS format, which apparently iTunes cannot read.

I guess the only way around this is to either download the slightly lesser quality (?) iPhone MP3 files, or to transcode the AAC into Lossless, even though this means larger file sizes, at least the sound quality is not altered.

Unless anyone had any other methods of getting iTunes to work with ADTS AAC files?

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:29:05 +0000

one forum says to rename to mp4. Maybe give that a try also…