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jakshin / mixcaster

Subscribe to Mixcloud users as RSS podcasts
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File Format #3

Open rmdes opened 2 years ago

rmdes commented 2 years ago

Hey there, thanks a lot for Mixcaster, it's really great to subscribe to mixcloud channels!

I'm wondering if I could specify a format for the files I want to download ? right now the -download flag seems to download only in m4a, is this specified by mixcloud or there is something I can do at the download step to specify I want mp3 with ID3 tags preserved ?

jakshin commented 2 years ago

I'm happy to hear that you find Mixcaster useful!

But it doesn't know anything about audio formats, sorry -- it just downloads whatever Mixcloud hosts. Which is almost always m4a, for whatever reason.

It seems like it'd be reasonably straightforward to use a tool like FFmpeg to convert files to mp3 once they're downloaded, if you're comfortable with a bit of shell scripting? Maybe also using mutagen or ExifTool for tweaking the ID3 tags, if that's important to you -- Mixcloud doesn't include much metadata in its m4a files.