BBC Have Broken GetIPlayer
 

On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:27:00 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

Simply answer is that I don't know! How would I check?

I think you would know if you were using one, so presumably you are
not, but one way of checking would be to check your browser connection
settings.

And would that mean it worked on first install but not after a power cycle?

Perhaps, if some sort of logging on to the proxy was involved, which
is why I think you would know if you were using one!
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 20:13:56 -0000, Yellow wrote:

In article ,
says...

On 02/11/2014 17:50, Yellow wrote:

And the BBC will not let me download a copy of the News Quiz, as a mp3,
to listen to in my car!

Actually they will. It's available as a podcast (in mp3) from this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/fricomedy

Also available (most likely) using your favourite podcast program.

They do not however podcast the Radio 4 Extra transmission of the
extended version of the show. :-(

And sometimes they edit out chunks from the podcast version for
copyright reason, often spoiling the joke. Therefore I stopped using
the popcasts and downloaded instead.

I didn't know that!

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I've just joined the get_iplayer mail list and - fingers crossed - I think
I've got get_iplayer working as a result of something Jeremy suggested.

I went back and tried 2.90 so as to compare it with 2.83.

And it worked. It also worked after a power cycle.

This is the same 'user space' version I'd tried before without success.

I think what happened then was that I'd un-installed the 'distro' version
to avoid accidentally using the wrong one in tests. In the process removing
something that 2.90 also needs. At present I have 2.83 still installed as a
system item but am using 2.90 via a local ./get_iplayer command. So it can
now use whatever it needs from has been installed along with 2.83.

What still puzzles me is why 2.83 works when installed... until a power
cycle. That made me think something with how I was using it was wrong, but
that it should go on working. However with luck 2.90 will continue to work
now. Fingers crossed.

Jim

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BBC Have Broken GetIPlayer
 

Jim Lesurf wrote:
I can now fetch programmes OK. However it remains frustrating as I haven't
really solved what was wrong in the sense of finding anf fixing it.

[...] I re-installed the version of get_iplayer 2.83 offerred by synaptic

This now works fine. So
get_iplayer --type=radio --no-tag --pid pid -o "output dir"

That's all great. But I'm left wondering if it will go wrong again when
something changes [...]

This worked probably because 2.90 updated the programme cache for
you. You need to use 2.90 because the RSS feeds on which 2.83 depended
are no longer available.

Chris

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On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:13:26 +0000, Jim Lesurf wrote:

As luck would have it, I just started trying out get_iplayer this
morning! For experiments I tried the series of historic 'Sherlock
Holmes' recordings that are under way on R4extra. The PID method seems
fine but I've hit a puzzle.

One program 'Study in Scarlet' (pid b04lsjkv) simply tells me

No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default

This is using

get_iplayer --type=radio --pid bo4lsjkv --output "directory name"

I've tried adding the --radiomode=better / best / etc. But get exactly
the same failure report.

I've also tried using O instead of 0, etc, but that fails more simply
with

Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site.

So I assume the pid is correct but for some reason the file isn't
labelled as 'default', etc.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Or is this another sign that the BBC
have been moving the deckchairs?

I realise I'm a bit late on this discussion (preoccupied with other
computer problems) but for the record, as it were, I use the following:

.....................
#!/bin/bash
read -p 'Enter the URL: ' URL
read -p 'Enter the PID: ' PID
#
/usr/bin/get_iplayer $URL --type radio --pid $PID --wav -o /mnt/record
exit 0
....................

I get the URL and PID from:-

http://www.iplayerconverter.co.uk/r/3/aod/default.aspx

and it seems to work fine.

- Richard.

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On 06/11/14 17:42, Mark wrote:
On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 20:13:56 -0000, Yellow wrote:

In article ,
says...

On 02/11/2014 17:50, Yellow wrote:

And the BBC will not let me download a copy of the News Quiz, as a mp3,
to listen to in my car!

Actually they will. It's available as a podcast (in mp3) from this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/fricomedy

Also available (most likely) using your favourite podcast program.

They do not however podcast the Radio 4 Extra transmission of the
extended version of the show. :-(

And sometimes they edit out chunks from the podcast version for
copyright reason, often spoiling the joke. Therefore I stopped using
the popcasts and downloaded instead.

AARGH! And they even broke the download! The last News Quiz Extra
episode ends while Mr. Hardy was reading out a newspaper cutting, just
before the punchline. And that cutting wasn't even in the half-hour
version. The download probably would have been long enough, if there
hadn't been several minutes of the continuity person wittering on about
nothing of interest, before the programme started.

Frank :-(

p.s. Has Jeremy Hardy's voice changed? A couple of News Quiz programmes
this year had himself and Andy Hamilton on, and I was able to tell them
apart. That used never to be the case. Probably all the singing lessons
the Clue people put him through.

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FP wrote:

p.s. Has Jeremy Hardy's voice changed?

It would change if I could get hold of the commie ******* because I'd
strangle the ****er.

Bill

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