--force loads repeats for radio programmes

[Alan Milewczyk]

On 03/12/2014 01:11, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
> Alan Milewczyk <alan at soulman1949.com> wrote:
>
>> Don't think anyone has raised this previously.
>>
>> Occasionally a programme download gets screwed up or I need to
>> re-download a prog that's already been downloaded.
>>
>> I've set my prefs to append the filename with information on when the
>> programme was last broadcast using:
>> fileprefix <title>_<pid>_<lastbcast>
>>
>> I've noticed that when doing a --force for radio programmes, it then
>> downloads all instances of a programme including repeats.
> That doesn't happen here... provided my download requests are specific to
> just a single instance of a programme.
>
> But if you, say, issue a request for any/all episodes of "Book of the Week""
> then the search of the cache would produce a list of all the currently
> available episodes of that programme.  Normally the fact that you'd (say)
> downloaded most of those already would then prevent g_ip from downloading
> them again; your --get command would just get any new ones.
>
> But if you code --force then get_iplayer ignores what you've previously
> downloaded, and will try again to download every programme that matches your
> search criteria.  To avoid that you need your search criteria to be very
> specific, not general.
>
> This mechanism doesn't pay any attention to the name of a downloaded file.
>
The pvr doesn't download the repeats first time around, but doing a 
--force on the programme name does, irrespective of the fact that it's 
the same PID.