Problem with "Series"

[Rob Dixon]

On 19/07/2013 10:57, J K.Eason wrote:
>> Using 2.83 on WinXP I've downloaded an episode of the "A Series of
>> Psychotic Episodes" radio series with the following included in my
>> options file:
>> subdirformat <nameshort>
>>
>> The output directory that was created has been given the name "A".
>> Using --info, it appears that the word "Series" in the Title has
>> caused <nameshort> to be defined as just that - although <name> is
>> complete.
>>
>> If that word hadn't been included in the title, I idly wonder if
>> "Episodes" would have caused a glitch.
>
> I wonder if that's another side effect of a colon (illegal Windows
> character) in the filename?

This is either an internal get_iplayer problem or something at BBC's
end. The `descshort` metadata for the programme is just `A`.

Rob