get_iplayer broken again!! (April 2016)

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Mon Apr 4 22:10:56 BST 2016, CJB wrote:

> This link is broken, too ...
> 
> https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/announcement-7.html

... It appears you haven't read tellyaddict's last post: 

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2016-April/008827.html

... Now the question that poses itself is how well prepared 
we are in the inevitable event the beeb permanently remove 
those .XML/.RDF metadata feeds? 
 There was a stop-gap patch committed (and then reverted) 
in the develop branch that makes use of .JSON playlists, 

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/e7bfcf5

but, as noted in the commit log, is far from an optimal solution... 
If the beeb completely switch off non-Nitro feeds, 
then something must be "baked" to use those instead...

Regards