Back on Highway 61

[Computing]

Thanks loads, a little tricky for me, but I'll have a look at the 
"brand" thing and see what happens.
Martin

On 19/02/16 20:27, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> On Fri Feb 19 13:32:30 GMT 2016, Computing wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone, case closed!!!
>
> Hello again, Martin!
>
> I don't want to assume the part
> of the "fat lady", but one of your queries
> remained unanswered:
>
>> when I search for "Music Extra"
>> it does not find anything.
>> Is that a problem or
>> do I have to go and pick
>> out the single programs??
>
> "Back on Highway 61" is the title of the
> episode with pid=p03dzcf7. Even if you
> force-refreshed your radio cache:
>
> get_iplayer --type=radio -f --force
>
> you wouldn't have found this specific episode
> inside it, since it was first broadcast on
> Sat 30 Jan 2016 16:06GMT, i.e. more
> than 7 days ago - this is as far back as the cache
> of GiP 2.94 can go...
>
> OTOH, "Music Extra" is a brand name
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0380g6h
> with brand pid=p0380g6h.
> To perform a search for brand, in theory
> you should've used the --fields switch,
>
> get_iplayer --type=radio --fields=brand "Music Extra"
>
> but my radio.cache does not contain a "brand"
> column, so even that is not possible, I think...
>
> However, if numerous episodes of the brand
> "Music Extra" were available for download,
> then issuing:
>
> get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=p0380g6h -i
>
> would have yielded:
> =========================
> INFO: Brand pid detected
> INFO:  Brand: 'Music Extra' (p0380g6h)
> (snip)
> INFO:    Series: <None>
> INFO:      Episode 'Back on Highway 61' (p03dzcf7)
> INFO:      Episode 'John Lennon: Verbatim' (p039nlb9)
> INFO:      Episode 'Lead Belly - A Secret History of Rock and Roll'
> (p0380gkk)
> INFO:      Episode 'Malaco Records Story' (p03g9g5w)
> (snip)
> INFO: Please run the command again using one of the above episode PIDs
> or to get
> all programmes add the --pid-recursive option
> =========================
>
> and the above would have led you to:
>
> get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=p0380g6h --pid-recursive
>
> At the time of this writing, only one (p03dzcf7)
> episode is available:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0380g6h/episodes/player
> hence
>
> get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=p0380g6h --pid-recursive
>
> is identical in terms of episodes fetched with
>
> get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=p03dzcf7
>
> mentioned already in this thread...
>
> If another episode of the brand is
> broadcast in future, it'll remain in
> the radio cache (and hence be picked up
> by a normal search) for 7 days after
> initial broadcast (or possibly more,
> if repeated...).
>
> Hope ithe above clears it for you...
>
> Cheers,
> Vangelis.
>
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