[peel] Re: Desert Island Discs

[John Gray]

Thanks - yeah, I think I need to spend a little time reading this properly.  Although this encouraging sentence leapt out at me:  'Life is, as usual, more complex for Windows users'  :-)

John Gray


On 12 Jun 2011, at 20:41, Paul Webster wrote:

> I'm not a MAC user but ... for extracting stuff from BBC iPlayer list ... Get_iplayer is reported as working on MacOS
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> http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html
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> It is a command-line tool and can take a bit of reading to understand.
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> Paul
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> On 12 Jun 2011, at 20:33, John Gray <jt.gray@...> wrote:
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> > Hmmm - interesting discussion about Radio Downloader, unfortunately academic until if/when it becomes Mac-friendly.
> > Thanks for suggestions Roger - I already use Audio Hijack, great software for recording all sorts of stuff. I also have Eye TV, so can schedule recordings, but if I understand correctly Radio Downloader would also retrieve older programmes?
> > Irrespective of such niceties, what really puzzled me in the first place was that some of my earlier recordings seem to be full shows rather than podcasts. Still great radio though - today I was listening to Joanna Lumley - fascinating woman, and that voice!
> > Similar to Desert Island Discs (Radio 4), does anyone remember a programme called 'My Top Ten' (Radio 1?) where celebrities chose records and then explained their reasons?
> > 
> > John Gray
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