"Quality not specified" - when it is ...

[Clive Buckley]

Hi Mark - thank you for the reply and yes, it worked. I have never previously needed to specify quality, having set it up in prefs so had not appreciated that there needed to be a space rather than a hyphen or equals sign. Downloaded now so thanks again.

Clive

> On 29 Jan 2024, at 09:22, Mark Clowes <mark at clow.es> wrote:
> 
> Hi Clive,
> 
> Try this instead:
> 
> get-iplayer --radio-quality std -g "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p01yhyl0"
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 at 19:32, Clive Buckley <roadcone at gmx.com> wrote:
> This link to BBC R3 Discovering Music (Mahler Resurrection) plays OK in a web browser:
> 
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p01yhyl0
> 
> When I use the terminal to enter the get command (my routine method) using either the pid (again, my routine method) or the —url= I get the error:
> 
> Episodes:
> Discovering Music - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection', BBC Radio 3, p01yhyl0
> INFO: 1 total programmes
> 
> INFO: Downloading radio: 'Discovering Music - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' (p01yhyl0) [original]'
> INFO: No specified recording quality (hlshigh,dashhigh) available for this programme with version 'original'
> INFO: Available qualities: std
> 
> I normally leave —quality= unspecified, having entered it (along with —-type=radio) into my preferences file. Having got the above error message, I then tried —-info and got:
> 
> player:          https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01yhyl0
> qualities:       original: std
> qualitysizes:    original: std=52MB [estimated sizes]
> 
> So tried —quality=std (and also standard) but got the same error message.
> 
> Can anyone help me please?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Clive
> 
> 
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