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Ascoware / get-iplayer-automator

The goal of Get iPlayer Automator is to allow iTunes and your Mac to become the hub for your British Television experience regardless of where in the world you are. Currently, Get iPlayer Automator allows you to download and watch BBC and ITV shows on your Mac. Series-Link/PVR functionality ensures you will never miss your favourite shows. Programmes are fully tagged and added to iTunes automatically upon completion. It is simple and easy to use, and runs on any machine running Mac OS X 10.7 or later. And since the shows are in iTunes, it is extremely easy to transfer them to your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV allowing you to enjoy your shows on the go or on your television.
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Issues with same name same episode #355

Open maz4200 opened 2 years ago

maz4200 commented 2 years ago

I am having multiple problems with downloading BBC sSounds programs which have different PIDs but the same show name and sam Episode name though different date. Is there any way to avoid this problem? Errors show up as :- Screenshot 2021-10-10 at 15 15 51 Screenshot 2021-10-10 at 15 17 47 The BBC seem to be using repeat and cycling episode names on items such as Jazz Record Requests.

skovatch commented 2 years ago

This is a new one on me -- thanks for the report. get_iplayer is reporting that the file already exists, so Get iPlayer Automator is passing along the error.

get_iplayer gives you a number of options for filename generation, so I think using the program ID will solve this. Currently GiA uses the download mode in the filename. This doesn't seem that useful to me, but I suppose if you wanted to compare version quality you might want to download multiple versions of the same show. I can have it use both.

n0tnull commented 2 years ago

It happens a lot with BBC Radio shows. A simple solution could be to add the broadcast date and/or PID in the filename. If you need to test the feature, the show Radio 1's Power Down Playlist with Sian Eleri will be useful as they seem to re-use the same name again and again.