Changes at BBC Resulting in PVR Duplicates

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Tue Jun 30 00:02:33 BST 2015, Budgie wrote:

> One of the programmes is The Early Music Show.
> I save both the full broadcast .m4a version which is titled as "The
> Early Music Show" and the mp3 podcast abridged version which has been
> titled "Early Music Show"
> I have just found about 180 no.  .mp3 files entitled "The Early Music
> Show" in my recordings directory.  These appear to be duplicates of the
> original .mp3 downloads but with the different title and pid.
> Anybody understand why this might be or have the same situation?

Hi - win32 here, but this is how things look to me:

get_iplayer --type=radio -f --force
get_iplayer --type=radio "The Early Music Show"

yields:

Matches:
12918:  The Early Music Show - Ensemble Organum at the Aldeburgh Festival, 
BBC R
adio 3,

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes

which in fact is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060bprr

This gets you your .m4a file.

However,

get_iplayer --type=podcast -f --force
get_iplayer --type=podcast "The Early Music Show"

yields:

(humongous snip)
INFO: 177 Matching Programmes
(BTW, all those podcasts are UK-only...:-( ).

These 177 "The Early Music Show" podcasts
(MP3 files) are the ones that can be individually
manually downloaded (in the UK) from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tn49/episodes/downloads
The "Updated: weekly - Episodes available: indefinitely"
bit on top is a sign that this number should grow by (at least) 1
each and every week...

So if your PVR search is of the type:

get_iplayer --type=radio,podcast "The Early Music Show" --pvr-add="The Early 
Music Show"

when that is run it'll get you 178 audio files (1M4A+177MP3s).
I believe this is the explanation you want...

I scarcely use the PVR feature, so am not really an expert on this...
Remove "podcast" from your PVR search, so you'd at least get your
M4A file; as for the podcast, it might simply boil down to a manual
download from the above referenced link.
Your post seems to suggest there's an abridged podcast version
(made available indefinitely) for every full episode broadcast weekly
(which only lives on iplayer for a month), however this is not
apparent to me; for instance, the latest 2015 podcast is dated
Sun 26 Apr 2015 (pid=b05s3cjc).
More savvy people on the list may offer advice
on how you'd get both M4A+MP3 files via a PVR search
in the occasion where both are available for the same
weekly broadcast...
Have not time to dissect your "In Our Time" issue,
I believe the logic behind it is the same...

Regards,
Vangelis