BBC Radio music sessions/interview dowload?

[Christopher Woods (CustomMade)]

> > BBC Radio is occasionally posting bits within shows as separate 
> > broadcast on their website (not sure if they're in 
> iPlayer); such as 
> > music sessions, interviews etc. They have their own PID 
> number but I 
> > can't get them to download or find any --info about them. (The 
> > complete show downloads OK). I've tried a few --modes but 
> with no luck.
> >
> > The only example I can find at the moment is:
> >
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/sessions/2011-02-22_magneticman
> >
> > If you start playing the Listen player then right click 
> you'll see the 
> > PID number.
> >
> > Can anyone get this to download?
> >
> 
> get_iplayer --type radio --pid p00f7czq
> 
> This works for me - OpenBSD 4.9 current amd64, get_iplayer 
> v2.79, rtmpdump v2.3.


These are "EMP" downloads (embedded media player); you can use the --url
switch instead of --pid and get_iplayer will scrape the PID and
automagically do the rest for you. Aside from swapping --pid for --url you
can use all your other favourite brews of switches. :-)