Can I Set Radio Modes for Individual Search Items in PVR List?

[Alan Milewczyk]

On 28/01/2017 18:19, Simon Morgan wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On
>> Behalf Of Budge
>> Sent: 28 January 2017 00:10
>> To: get_iplayer
>> Subject: Can I Set Radio Modes for Individual Search Items in PVR List?
> <snip>
> -
> .
> .  I could then
>> use "best"
>> for radio 3 music and a much lower quality for spoken word.  Is this
>> already possible?
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
> See here
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modes#config-quality
> Also
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modesref#recording-mode-deta
> ils
>
> As I almost exclusively use the browser-based PVR, setting recording modes
> for both TV and radio is simple - use the Recoding tab for your preferences.
> I record the highest quality radio as it is mostly music but accept a lower
> quality (not much lower in my opinion) for TV because of my poor broadband
> speed. If I wanted to, I imagine I could change the quality mode for each
> individual recording.
>
> To set different qualities for different radio programmes  may be possible
> and I expect Vangelis will have the answer to this using some clever CLI
> script. However even a Radio Three 5 hour broadcast of Der Rosenkavalier
> only requires 678MB and with the cost of disk storage so cheap, to me it
> doesn't seem worth the effort of downgrading recording quality for radio.
> You possibly have a different view.
>
> Rgds
>
> Simon Morgan
>

As I see it the poster was not complaining about file size for the music 
programmes, only about the overkill for speech.

I use batch files to download the programmes I need. The batch files 
would read a text file listing the programmes to be downloaded. In that 
scenario there is nothing to stop you having two sets of batch file/text 
file, one batch file specifying the rate you wish to download music with 
the appropriate programmes listed in the corresponding  text file and a 
second batch file specifying a lower bitrate for the spoken programmes, 
again with a matching text file listing those programmes.

If you need help on the appropriate content of batch and text files, 
just yell and we'll show you how to do it.

Alan