Get_Iplayer and downloading other program versions

[Ian McDonald]

On 18 Dec 2010, at 12:49, Aman Singer wrote:

> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian McDonald 
> Sent: December-18-10 7:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Get_Iplayer and downloading other program versions
> 
> This may not be of much help, since I never managed to make get_player work
> on my iMac.  Instead, I followed the advice to load Get iPlayer Automator.
> Followin your e-mail I tried to see whether it was able to download an
> audiodescribed  show with the following ( successful) result:-
> 
> 
> 	Thank you, Ian, for the test. I will definitely look for Automator
> and see whether its source is available. If I may just confirm one thing,
> though, when you play the show, do you hear the description? I can download
> the shows easily enough without description, and indeed thought I had
> obtained the audio described version myself but when I had the user listen
> to the show, no audio description track was in the audio, it was just the
> standard audio. I wasn't sure what was going on until I found the version
> commands, which I thought were the way to get the correct versions. If I may
> ask, can you confirm that when you try to listen to the file, you hear the
> audio described track?
> Thanks.
> Aman
> 

I have to apologise for having rushed in and assumed that when Automator said it was loading the audiodescribed vesion it was, in fact, doing so.   I have now checked, and Automator addresses the same programme id , now 230, for both the plain version and the audiodescribed number.

Very sorry for raising your hopes.  It just shows that little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Ian McDonald