GiP is ignoring lots of radio progs

[CJB]

Thank you - all appears well now excepting why the cache files went
corrupt - well the radio one anyway. The last timestamp of editing
this was the same as the last refresh. So the file was getting updated
in general but not with some of the programmes I had in my PVR list.
Strange correlation. Thank you again - Chris B.

On 08/11/2015, Vangelis forthnet <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> On Sun Nov 8 00:58:11 GMT 2015, CJB wrote:
>
>> mostly solved - corrupted cache files
>> - but at least one programme still not getting cached.
>
>  I'll forward the following to the list,
> because by accident it was only sent to me:
>
>> On Sun Nov 8 00:35 GMT 2015, CJB wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks again guys.
>>> So I deleted the radio and tv caches and refreshed them.
>>> The radio cache went from 789 to 1008KB
>>> The tv cache went from 610 to 626B
>>> And the Hancock - Cheam episode - is now listed;
>>> also Round the Horne.
>>>
>>> However, there is still at least one programme
>>> that hasn't got indexed - and I opened the radio.cache into Notepad
>>> to look for it. It wasn't there.
>>> Ballad of the Great War - 1915
>>> World War One, The Ballads of the Great War Episode 2 of 5
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nn8bg
>
> I can dupe this even after a forced radio cache refresh:
>
> get_iplayer --type=radio -f --force
> get_iplayer --type=radio pid:b06nn8bg
> --------------------------------------------
> INFO: Search term 'b06nn8bg' is a non-existent pid, use --pid instead and/or
>
> spe
> cify the correct programme type
>
> INFO: 0 Matching Programmes
> --------------------------------------------
>
> But this specific radio show was only broadcast
> mere hours ago (LB: 2015-11-07-2100Z), so I'll
> give it some more time to let it appear properly in
> the AOD feed (hence radio.cache).
> In GiP 2.94, unlike TV, radio.cache is refreshed
> via theAOD feeds, not the schedule ones...
>
>  The thing you must pay closer attention to
> is the reason your cache files became corrupt in
> the first place; this could vary from very offensive
> Security Suites (Antivirus/AntiSpyware etc.) to
> lack of proper OS housekeeping...
>  I would advise you perform a disk defragmantation
> and /or a "check disk for errors" process (chkdisk
> native Windows utility), plus a disk health utility
> could also be of help here...
>  On this ancient Vista laptop, a user of GiP since 2010,
> I have never suffered from corrupt GiP cache files...
>
> EDIT:
>
> And by devine intervention, just before I was
> about to post this, a repeat of:
>
> get_iplayer --type=radio -f --force
> get_iplayer --type=radio pid:b06nn8bg
>
> now yields:
> --------------------------------------------
> Matches:
> 13461:  World War One: The Ballads of the Great War - The Ballad of the
> Great Wa
> r - 1915, BBC Radio 2,
>
> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Vangelis.
>
>
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