Peter Grimes

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> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2015 at 11:25 AM
> From: "Howard Orgel" <Howard.Orgel at orgels.demon.co.uk>
> To: "Jim Lesurf" <web at audiomisc.co.uk>
> Cc: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Peter Grimes
>
> On Mon, 25 May 2015 08:07:05 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to get the "Peter Grimes" opera broadcast on BBC4 last
> > night. But all I can get in response is
> > 
> > get_iplayer v2.92, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
> >   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
> > --warranty.
> >   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
> > certain
> >   conditions; use --conditions for details.
> > 
> > Matches:
> > 1089:	Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach - -, BBC Four, Classical,Music,Opera,
> > default
> > 
> > INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
> > WARNING: The 'default' programme version could not be determined
> > INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (available versions:
> > open)
> > 
> > I normally fetch by pid number but I get the same behaviour by name. How do
> > I specify the "open" version? It should be available as high quality.

Hi Jim,
As you've rightly spotted, the only version of this is called "open". Normally get_iplayer would pick this up and use it as default but it seems not to in this case. Adding --versions=open to your get_iplayer command should work for you.