Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes

[Nick Payne]

On 06/02/2015 10:22, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> On Thu Feb 5 17:29:53 GMT 2015, M Clark wrote:
>
>> Whilst pid=b048s4tn doesn't need this switch, using it gives a file
>> "Plants_-__b048s4tn_default.m4a"
>> whilst not using it returns
>> "Plants_From_Roots_to_Riches_-_1._A_Rose_by_Any_Other_Name_b048s4tn_default.m4a". 
>>
>>
>> The version of get_iplayer used is the commit of 3rd Jan.
>
> Hello again!
> As I keep some older versions of the main script in my
> installation folder (for experimentation & debugging purposes),
> I conducted some further experiments with your sample pid=b048s4tn.
>
> With my oldest version
> get_iplayer v2.90-45-g16b0c40 of 2014-12-06
> (http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/blob_plain/16b0c40f1ca65c0ccfec23e72928d17f8b5ec862:/get_iplayer), 
>
> I get:
>
> A. NO --playlist-metadata
> Plants_From_Roots_to_Riches_-_1._A_Rose_by_Any_Other_Name_b048s4tn_default 
>
> B. --playlist-metadata
> Plants_-_From_Roots_to_Riches_A_Rose_by_Any_Other_Name_b048s4tn_default
>
> So, already a small difference between the auto-generated file names, 
> but no info missing.
>
> With my slightly newer copy
> get_iplayer v2.90-58-gd1caff0 of 2014-12-12
> (http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/blob_plain/d1caff0e19139eba4f4e6cac826a6ebf7061e295:/get_iplayer), 
>
> I get:
>
> A. NO --playlist-metadata
> Plants_From_Roots_to_Riches_-_1._A_Rose_by_Any_Other_Name_b048s4tn_default 
>
> B. --playlist-metadata
> Plants_-__b048s4tn_default
>
> Tag v2.91 exhibits the same behaviour and this, as you state,
> is matched by the Jan 3rd dev version of the script.
>
> I would look in the commits between 16b0c40 & d1caff0
> to find the change of code that introduced this "bug"...

I see something similar when downloading via PID with v2.91. I 
downloaded several episodes of Smiley's People via PID, and the 
downloaded files were all named Smileys_People_Smileys_People_<pid>. I 
had to go back and look at the PIDs on the iPlayer web site to get the 
Episodes sorted in order. The only command line parameters used were 
--pid and --output to specify the download folder.

Nick