No .xml - what is work-around?

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>From: Mark Carroll
>Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 13:58

>>On 28 Apr 2017, artisticforge . wrote:

>> cmdline is dead Jim.
>

>Sorry, you're saying that --pid isn't working for you? Which version of
>get_iplayer? It's been fine for me so far -- is it just some PIDs that
>don't work?

It was still working at 1404, at least for HLShd1 and b08nx7k5 and b08ndzx9. 
You get
WARNING: Could not download programme metadata at ... .xml
There is then a long delay.  If you wait it will start.