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

[Budge]

On 28/01/17 12:16, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
> 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.

Hi Alan,
Thanks. Your interpretation of my intent is correct.  Yes I could set up 
a batch file or several and run them as cron jobs in the same way as I 
run pvr now.

For all intents and purposes however pvr does the most of the work for 
me now and would do all that I want if I could set mode along with 
search criteria.  Before I go down the batch file route I shall dig more 
into pvr.

Regards,
Budge