Just upgraded to 2.98. I can see from the changelog that a load of options have been removed. One of these is --ffmpeg-radio-opts. I used this to add hints to the downloaded files to help my MP3 player with seeking M4A files, like this:




Nice and simple. In 2.98, to get the same result, I have to do:



This took me a lot of experimentation, trying to work out what get_iplayer 2.97 was doing and how to replicate it.

Why was this option removed? I'm sure there was a very good reason, but from here it just seems to make things more difficult.