[peel] Re: Desert Island Discs

Paul Webster paul@...
Mon Jun 13 20:35:02 CEST 2011


It certainly does not give access to more complete versions of shows unless they are available via iPlayer.
Sorry for the diversion.

Paul

On 13 Jun 2011, at 19:26, John Gray <jt.gray@...> wrote:

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> OK, I am pretty baffled by this!  I dare say I can work out what I need to do to use get_iplayer - but how does it help?  Both the BBC iplayer and the Desert Island Discs Archive are easy enough to use; this doesn't give me access to any other shows, or more complete versions of shows,does it?  Or am I missing something?
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> John Gray
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> On 12 Jun 2011, at 20:41, Paul Webster wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> > John Gray
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