Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site

[Alan Milewczyk]

Must admit, I've been caught by this myself on many occasions - the 
number "1" and the letter "l" look pretty similar on BBC pages, which is 
why I've given up typing in the PID and do a cut and paste instead.

A

On 23/11/2014 02:34, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote:
> Oh, foo.  those are the letter "l".  it wasn't until I saw them in a 
> different font that I saw that.
>
> On 22-Nov-14 17:40, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote:
>> I tried to use these two PID's to download programs, and they fail, 
>> as below: b04pc6l0 and b04p87l8  (these are cut and pasted from the 
>> BBC).
>>
>> I'm suspicious of the penultimate characters in those PID's.  It 
>> looks like the "pipe"character, but that doesn't work either.
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> thanks, doug
>>
>>
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer>get_iplayer --aactomp3 
>> --type=radio --pid=b04
>> pc610
>> get_iplayer v2.90, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
>>   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use 
>> --warranty.
>>   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under 
>> certain
>>   conditions; use --conditions for details.
>>
>> WARNING: rdf URL contained no data
>> WARNING: PID URL contained no RDF data. Trying to record PID directly.
>> INFO: Trying pid: b04pc610 using type: radio
>> INFO: Trying to stream pid using type radio
>> INFO: pid not found in radio cache
>> Matches:
>>
>> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
>> ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site
>>
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