Is this necessary, and how can I get rid of it?

Sun May 22 06:36:08 PDT 2016

Sorry for not being clear-  I don't want that download, since I see it 
as a waste of time and bandwidth, since the things I'm getting are often 
not in that.  I only download radio- my options file has "type radio" in it.
best, doug

On 22/05/2016 06:51, Mark Carroll wrote:
> On 22 May 2016, Dave Liquorice wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 22 May 2016 08:16:28 +0100, Mark Carroll wrote:
>>
>>>> "Getting radio Index Feeds (this may take a few minutes)"
>>>
>>> get_iplayer is a Perl script. In this case you can just look for that
>>> text within get_iplayer itself then put a # at the beginning of that
>>> line to comment it out.
>>
>> This true but it'll still be downloading the radio index feeds, it just
>> won't tell you it is.  B-)
>
> Oh, you think he's complaining about the download, not the message?
>
>> get_iplayer only downloads the index feeds if it needs to, so the OP has at
>> least one radio download requested somewhere. Find and remove them and it'll
>> stop pulling the radio index.
>
> Depending on what he actually wants it might also suffice to use -e to
> set a really high cache expiry or to use something like
> --refresh-exclude=".*" to prevent any channel from being refreshed. But,
> yeah, there's all manner of things he might have actually meant to ask,
> I guess I'll be quiet until he can actually explain what his issue is.
> You may well be correct that he wants television downloads but not
> radio, goodness knows. Sigh.
>
> -- Mark
>
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