Some questions on PVR

Sat May 13 15:50:52 PDT 2023

I looked at the podcast thing while watching Eurovision and I found
that it still works, but there are definite limitations.

pi at osgood:~$ get_iplayer --type=podcast --refresh nomatch
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INFO: Getting podcast Index Feeds
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Added: 262510:  The Media Show - Football, racism and the media, Wed,
12 Dec 2018 17:45:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, Socie
ty & Culture
Added: 262623:  The Media Show - How ITV News reported first-hand on
the storming of Congress, Fri, 12 Feb 2021 20:4
3:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, Society & Culture
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Added: 262510:  The Media Show - Football, racism and the media, Wed,
12 Dec 2018 17:45:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, Society & Culture
Added: 262623:  The Media Show - How ITV News reported first-hand on
the storming of Congress, Fri, 12 Feb 2021 20:43:00 +0000, BBC Radio
4, Society & Culture

INFO: 0 Matching Programmes

The list here for "In Our Time" tallys what my podcast app sees.

pi at osgood:~$ get_iplayer --type=podcast "In our Time"  | tail
226409: In Our Time - Megaliths, Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:15:00 +0000, BBC
Radio 4, History
226410: In Our Time - The Ramayana, Thu, 06 Apr 2023 09:15:00 +0000,
BBC Radio 4, History
226411: In Our Time - Mercantilism, Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:15:00 +0000,
BBC Radio 4, History
226412: In Our Time - Solon the Lawgiver, Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:15:00
+0000, BBC Radio 4, History
226413: In Our Time - A Room of One's Own, Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:15:00
+0000, BBC Radio 4, History
226414: In Our Time - Cnut, Thu, 04 May 2023 09:15:00 +0000, BBC Radio
4, History
226415: In Our Time - The Battle of Crécy, Thu, 11 May 2023 09:15:00
+0000, BBC Radio 4, History
226416: In Our Time - In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds, Fri, 04
Mar 2022 04:00:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, History

INFO: 941 Matching Programmes
pi at osgood:~$

When you look at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006qykl you see
the latest podcasts are there.

Friday night Comedy

pi at osgood:~$ get_iplayer --type=podcast "Friday Night Comedy"| tail
220370: Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - The News Quiz - 3rd
March, Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:01:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, Comedy
220371: Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - The News Quiz - 10th
March, Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:01:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, Comedy
220372: Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - The Now Show - 17th
March, Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:01:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, Comedy
220373: Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - The Now Show - 24th
March, Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:01:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, Comedy
220374: Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - The Now Show - 31st
March, Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:01:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, Comedy
220375: Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - The Now Show - 7th
April, Fri, 05 May 2023 18:01:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, Comedy
220376: Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - The Now Show - 14th
April, Fri, 12 May 2023 18:01:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4, Comedy
220377: Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - Ready for a new series
of The News Quiz?, Sat, 29 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000, BBC Radio 4,
Comedy

INFO: 162 Matching Programmes

The URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p02pc9pj shows the latest
show available from yesterday

Kevin

On Sat, 13 May 2023 at 21:42, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
<jn.ml.gti.91 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 2023-05-13 20:18, Kevin Lynch wrote:
>
> > ... Since then the BBC had an "audio product"
> > whose name escapes me that then was rewritten to be "BBC Sounds". If
> > you look carefully, the BBC doesn't promote "BBC Radio" anymore. It's
> > all "BBC Sounds". The BBC now deprecates podcasts, driving users to
> > BBC Sounds
>
> If that's the case one would wonder why their own website hasn't yet
> got the message.  If you go to "Sounds" and search for, for example
> "More or Less" you'll find the most recent episode of the MoL
> /podcast/ at
>
>   https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fn0lnw
>   "Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?"
>
> and - yes - that's a "sounds" URL.
>
>
> But if you approach it through what might be a legacy set of pages,
> eg from
>
>   https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd
>
> and click on the "More or Less Podcast" tab, that takes you to
>
>   https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads
>
> (which doesn't have "sounds" in its URL), and if you click the
> topmost entry in the list of episodes you get to
>
>   https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fn0lnw
>
> - no "sounds" literal in that either.  It's only when you click
> on "Listen Now" that you finally end up on a "sounds" page.
>
>
> --
> Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own
>
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