get_iplayer broken again!! (April 2016)

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Tue Apr 5 02:00:25 BST 2016, I wrote: 

>> the BBC have killed the .xml feeds again.
> 
> This is indeed true for now (ca. 00:45 UTC). 
> I tested an hour ago and all was fine :-( 
> (snip)
> (.... and how I just hate myself for always 
> putting off GiP downloads for later..)

 Radio feeds are the only ones still working in GiP 2.94; 
no podcasts, nor TV. So the radio.cache gets 
refreshed.
 If you are in a hurry to fetch a programme with 
imminent expiry, please use the develop branch - 
any snapshot newer (and including) commit 
git-b9adeaa (pushed on Jan 2016 20:24:31Z) 
will supposedly do: 
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/b9adeaa

Latest commit at the time of posting is: 

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/53e9c7f

You'll have to fetch via PID - tag metadata of 
downloaded file may be minimal/incorrect - 
the same goes for embedded thumbnail 
(might not be the proper one...). 

 Do acknowledge that the develop branch is 
completely unsupported - keep an eye on the 
support forum for announcements/instructions 
by the code maintainer (dinkypumpkin).

https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/

V.