The necessity of specifying "--type radio"

[Thomas E. Willson]

It does take a lot longer to download the radio indexes than the TV indexes. I am biased though because I usually only download TV shows as well.

On Jun 23, 2010, at 7:47 PM, Andy Bircumshaw wrote:

> Does anyone know if there's a compelling reason, other than "too many results" for excluding radio programmes from the search by default?
> 
> It's rather a pain to get no results on my search for (for instance) "Pete Tong" and then have to go back and append "--type radio" to my last search.
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> Of course, it might be MORE of a pain to have one's search results cluttered up with an excessive number of many radio shows - I couldn't say, because I haven't tried it.
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> I'm rather inclined to guess that it's done this way simply because Phil Lewis didn't download radio shows very much. Anyone else got any thoughts as to whether radio should be included?
> 
> aB.
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