I've been getting various R3 Proms items fine via using my generally preferred approach - using the pids I can find from the 'schedules' pages. However I found another page that offerred other items, which has worked in some cases, but not others. So I'm puzzled by this and wonder if someone knows a way past the problems.
Note that I'm focussed here on the R3 (audio) items, not TV. The key page is at https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rxfhzc/by/date/2018/07 which lists the proms, etc, by date. Selecting a particular prom from that pops up another page that then offers what files are available. For the first two proms these pages offerred both 'excerpts' (e.g. a single composition from the prom) and some 'headphone mix' or 'binaural' alternatives. GIP let me download these as usual. Note that one curio here is that these items seem to 'expire' after just a few days, not the usual month. So the first examples are now presumably no longer available. However for more recent proms the 'excerpt' items should, I think, still be available and they show a little 'clock' item and a text showing something like '2d' which I take to mean 'available for another two days'. *But* if I try their PIDs I find GIP fails to fetch them. Instead it tells me that the HAF modes aren't available. Yet this didn't happen for the first few proms. Questions here are why, and am I doing something wrong? I also think it may be the case that the main pids shown here differ from those on the schedules pages. But I've not fully checked that as I'm currently puzzled by the above failures and the curio of the very short periods of availability. The signs are that these files are being produced quite separately from the main ones listed in the daily shedules, but the inconsistencies seem really odd. BTW I don't think the 'headphone mixes' are much to write home about. They seem to be a mix, not genuine binaural. And here with the headphones I'm using, I prefer the standard broadcast balance! ... at least for the only two proms thus far that have offerred the choice. :-) Cheers, Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
