Transcoding HLS streams to MP3 output

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I have another issue Simon on transcoding. Now I have installed Foobar 2000 with the upnp player on my laptop and the server running on the office machine with the MP3 translation parameters in order to check the translated bit rate

stream.convertor: C:\Program Files\FFMPEG\ffmpeg.exe
stream.transcode: aac:mp3

I would expect the AAC streams to give me a top notch MP3 sample rate but it isn't it is 128 kbps rather than 320 although the AAC is running at 320. I'm wondering whether when you called the FFMPEG library you may have picked it up at the default setting ?. I have used to different FFMPEG libraries in case the issue was coming from there but they both give me the same result.