pid-recursive in options file, bug or feature?

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Fri May 5 11:48:37 BST 2017, Doug Faunt wrote: 

>> if you feel you have a genuine issue/feature request,
>> be free to pursue this further in the support forums!
> (snip)
> It's not a big deal and is probably a result
> of the new method of working.

 Hello again Doug :-)

 A related (if not exact) issue has been recently raised in 
the forums by member "brutus14": 

https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-1360-post-6089.html#pid6089
(non-cached episode and pid-recursive problem v3.00)

 That issue refers to TV episodes, but the root cause of its 
manifestation may actually be identical to your use case...
The coder has acknowledged this as a bug, to be remedied 
in the next bug-fix release of GiP (3.01?), which is 
currently in the works/imminent...
In fact, (new) Known Issue #4 has been added to the list, 
covering this "bug": 

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/issues#known-issues

As you can see, it just tells users to do what I had already 
advised in this thread, which is (from issue #4): 

> The workaround is to remove --pid-recursive 
> from preferences until this is fixed. 

and

> Only specify it on the command line 
> when you are actually performing a recursive download, 
> not downloading just a single episode.

(which, IMHO, is the sane thing to do, to begin with...)

Take best of care (especially during 
those nightwatches), 
Vangelis.