Thank you for this Paul.
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From: Paul Hopewell
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 1:51 PM
To: mac-access
Subject: get iPlayer Automator article
Hello All,
As several folks have expressed interest in this article I have pasted it
into this Email. It is not that long!
Playing TV and Radio programs on an Apple Macintosh
The free App ‘Get iPlayer Automator’ is a great way to download and play TV
and radio programs on an Apple Macintosh. You can download TV programs from
the BBC , ITV and Channel 4 and radio programs from the BBC including those
from regional stations. You can search for desired programs by entering
words which might appear in the program title and you can set preferences to
download the audio described version of the program if it is available. You
can request that downloaded programs are automatically added to your iTunes
library from where you can play them or transfer them to portable devices
such as iPhone, iPod, and iPad. You can automatically add programs which are
part of a series to your download queue as they become available. Finally if
you live outside the UK you can still download British TV and radio programs
via a provided proxy.
Get iPlayer Automator requires Mac OS 10.7 or later. You can download it
free from
http://tom-tech.com/iplayer_automator/iPlayer_Automator/Get_iPlayer_Automator.html.
Copy the ‘Get iPlayer Automator.app’ from your download folder to your
application folder and open it. Wait a few seconds and you will be invited
to upgrade to the latest level which at the time of writing is 1.5.3 (536).
You now need to change a few of the default preferences. Open the preference
pane for Get iPlayer Automator and go to the general tab. If you live in the
UK you must set the Proxy option to None. The default is Provided which
should work if you live outside the UK but I have no way to test this. If
you want to download BBC radio programs as well as TV programs ensure that
BBC Radio and BBC Podcasts options are checked in the Items to Cache group.
These are not checked by default. Also ensure that the Download Audio
Described and Signed Versions option is checked. This is checked by default
and will download the audio described version of a program if it is
available. If no audio described version is available it will download the
standard version. Now close the preference pane.
To download a program first enter one or more words which might appear in
the program title into the Search For Shows edit box and press the Enter
key. After a few seconds look in the Search Results table for the desired
show(s) and select them. Now press the Add To Queue button to add the
desired show(s) to the download queue. Then check that the desired show(s)
really are in the download queue and if this queue contains any unwanted
shows select them and press the - button to remove them. Now go to the
Toolbar and press the Start button to start downloading the desired show(s).
These will be saved in the Download Path specified in the preference pane
which by default is set to the Movies/TV Shows folder in your user area.
Downloaded TV programs will also appear in the TV Shows part of your iTunes
library from where you can play the desired shows. Downloaded radio programs
will appear in the Music part of your iTunes library and can be found by
going to Artists and looking for BBC Radio.
You can use the TVR feature of Get iPlayer Automator to automatically
download the next available program of a nominated series the next time you
start Get iPlayer Automator. To do this press the TVR button in the Toolbar.
This brings up a panel enabling you to search for a show in a series of
shows and then add that series to the TVR queue. The next time you start Get
iPlayer Automator it will search for the next show for each entry in the TVR
queue and if one is found it will add it to your download queue.
Each time you start Get iPlayer Automator it refreshes its index of possible
shows. If you have not used Get iPlayer Automator for a while this can take
several minutes during which the Search For Shows edit box is dimmed. You
then just need to be patent and wait for the Search For Shows edit box to
become available.
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