Excluding repeated programmes

[Andy Bircumshaw]

On 19 Oct 2010, at 16:57, Roger Burton West wrote:

> I wish to download R4 programmes, but not their repeats on R7. So I  
> have
> a file in ~/get_iplayer/pvr/ that looks like:
>
> metadata generic
> type radio
> search0 News Quiz
> exclude Fresh from 4
>
> However, the exclude doesn't seem to be getting processed, and I get  
> the
> repeats as well as the originals.

Searches only operate on the title, therefore so do excludes. "Fresh  
from 4" is in the description field.

Compare:

$ get_iplayer --type radio "News Quiz"
get_iplayer v2.78, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use -- 
warranty.
   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under  
certain
   conditions; use --conditions for details.

Matches:
12828:	The News Quiz: Series 72 - Episode 4, BBC Radio 4,  
Comedy,Entertainment,Games & Quizzes,Highlights,Popular,Radio,Satire
12829:	The News Quiz - 17/10/2010, BBC 7, Comedy,Entertainment,Games &  
Quizzes,Popular,Radio,Satire

INFO: 2 Matching Programmes
$
$
$ get_iplayer --type radio "News Quiz" --channel 4
get_iplayer v2.78, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use -- 
warranty.
   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under  
certain
   conditions; use --conditions for details.

Matches:
12828:	The News Quiz: Series 72 - Episode 4, BBC Radio 4,  
Comedy,Entertainment,Games & Quizzes,Highlights,Popular,Radio,Satire

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
$


Hope this helps - you should be able to delete your existing search  
and readd it now so that it works. Please post back if you can't.


This is the BBC's "fault" for making the repeat (on BBC 7) a new show  
on iPlayer:

$ date
Wed Oct 20 01:47:24 BST 2010
$ get_iplayer 12829 -i | grep -e firstbcast -e "descmed" -e pid
descmedium:     Fresh from 4 - Catch up as Sandi Toksvig and the teams  
battle it out over the latest news events. From 8 October 2010.
firstbcast:     default: 2010-10-17T16:30:00+01:00
firstbcastrel:  default: 2 days 9 hours ago
pid:            b00vc88r
verpids:        default: b00vc883
$

The 8th October was *not* 2 days 9 hours ago.

Compare with a film which was recently repeated, having originally  
been shown nearly a year ago:

$ get_iplayer 1 -i | grep -e episode: -e firstbcast -e pid:
episode:        101 Dalmatians
firstbcast:     default: 2009-12-28T14:55:00Z
firstbcastrel:  default: 295 days 9 hours ago
pid:            b007cf0r
$

My first reaction was to curse the BBC for their "idiocy" in not  
retaining the original PID / whatever for the repeat, but they  
probably have a good reason for this (it's just annoying).

aB.