Radio categories

[M Clark]

> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 at 2:01 PM
> From: Steve <yellow.yeti at gmail.com>
> To: get_iplayer <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> Subject: Radio categories
>
> if I search for radio programmes with a category of drama:
> 
> get_iplayer  --test --type=radio --category="Drama"
> 
> I get returned:
> get_iplayer 2.91-ppa21, 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.
> 
> 
> INFO: 0 Matching Programmes
> 
> ( get_iplayer *. --test --type=radio --category="Drama" also returns 0
> matching )
> 
> if I go to list available categories for radio:
> 
> get_iplayer --list=categories --type=radio
> 
> no categories are returned, while if i do the same for --type=tv I get
> the usual suspects.
> 
> Have the recent spate of changes caused this to stop working, or am I
> doing something stupid?
> 

Categories for radio programmes were lost when the BBC changed their feeds last November, so, no, you aren't doing anything stupid. :-)

You can verify this by looking at the Web PVR (http://localhost:1935/).

Regards.