Hello Amro,
Thank you so much for all the work you have done for me on GIP.
Now, I have very good news: I have been able to download the five episodes last ;
week. But, the interesting thing is, they are in .M4A format. And this is
surprising, as you had earlier asked me if I was happy with MP3.
I’m quite sure that, having got so far, you’ll be able to sort out this final
problem for me.
With many thanks.
Best wishes,
Keith
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ;
Amro Bilal
Sent: 01 May 2017 19:22
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: GIP 300
Hello Keith,
I believe it’s the “--aactomp3 --mp3vbr=0” part in your command line that is
causing the problem. gip has changed quite a bit in the last few versions and
some of its options have become obsolete. You can run the command line without
the “--aactomp3 --mp3vbr=0” part and see if you are happy with the results
get_iplayer --type=radio --get "Charles Chaplin - my autobiography"
This is your new command line for downloading radio programmes. For other radio
programmes you just need to change the name of the programme between the
quotation marks as usual.
The developers state that gip is no longer responsible for MP3 conversions.
However, if you still prefer to have your radio programmes in MP3 formats then
do the following:
1. Run the below command line in gip
get_iplayer --prefs-add --command-radio="ffmpeg -loglevel error -i
\""<filename>"\" -c:v copy -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 320k -id3v2_version 3
-write_id3v1 1 -y \""<dir>/<fileprefix>.mp3"\" && del \""<filename>"\""
You need to do this only once. This will configure gip to automatically convert
all downloaded radio programmes to MP3 constant bit rate.
2. ownload the Charles Chaplin programme using the command line
get_iplayer --type=radio --get "Charles Chaplin - my autobiography"
Again, this is your new command line for downloading radio programmes. For
other radio programmes you just need to change the name of the programme
between the quotation marks as usual.
Note: because of all the fiddling trying to download the Charles Chaplin
programme, you may need to force the download this time by adding --force at
the end of your command line to read as follows
get_iplayer --type=radio --get "Charles Chaplin - my autobiography" --force
Do the above step if the normal downloading command line as it were doesn’t
work.
If you fancy reading about all the converting options for radio programmes visit
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/aactomp3#aactomp3-cbr-all
I too keep the command lines on a notepad; I think it’s the best way.
I hope this is not too confusing.
Let me know how you get on.
Amro
