Why is '-- type radio' needed?

[Chris Marriott]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Vangelis forthnet 
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 3:05 PM 
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org 
Subject: Re: Why is '-- type radio' needed? 

On Fri Oct 16 10:28:15 BST 2015, Chris Marriott wrote:

>> I download radio programmes with:
>> get_iplayer --mode=flashaacstd --pid=xxxxxxxxxx
>> No "type=" and it works just fine.
>
>Hi Chris; 
>I believe the answer to that can be found 
>within the context of my previous post...
>
>You may have omitted "--type=radio"
>(well, you shouldn't have), but you've included 
>instead a radiomode (flashaacstd) which 
>happens to be available for your radio PIDs.

Thanks - that makes sense!

Chris