Different to BBC Radio then - progs become available within an hour or so of first broadcast and are available for seven days from last broadcast.
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OT: BBC iPlayer
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Nice, topical quote from Mohammed Shtayyeh there :)
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you mean that it can magically find the programs that the Beeb forget to make available
I very much doubt it
tim
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Sorry, I was thinking of the "wrong format for this version" problem. AFAICT, get_iplayer stores the download in a file that you can find and a format that you can play with other software, rather than keeping it locked up in its own vault. This also means you're not forced to purge the file when it expires (although get_iplayer will delete the file by default unless you change the configuration or move the file).
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None of the versions of get_iplayer I have used have ever deleted any files by default.
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The one I use (command-line on Ubuntu) keeps a list of the files downloaded and by default deletes them after 30 days, but it can't do that if you move/rename the files and won't do that if you put "nopurge 1" in the ~/.get_iplayer/options file.
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Doesn't it ask you first? Using it under Linux Mint (Ubuntu in all but detail) it offers me a list of titles and says something like "these programmes should be deleted" then goes on to ask "Delete? Y/N"
Nick
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ISTR (but hey, this is my memory) that when I ran into that question, it wouldn't proceed (to download the programmes I requested) unless I let it delete the expired ones. I had to use the --nopurge option or put that line in the options file to get it to behave the way I wanted.
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Yes, it does that to me too. The annoying thing here is that it seems to forget the original instruction so that, once you have dealt with the purging option you need to go back and re-input your original instruction. Or am I missing something here?
Anyway, my routine procedure is to move anything I want to keep into another directory so that it only has the option of zapping stuff I don't want any more.
Nick
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AFAICT, once you put "nopurge 1" in the options file, you don't have to worry about it again.
That works too, of course!