This past few days when searching TV programmes to download via command line, I always get the same unwanted programme shown in the list, e.g.




produces all the Storyville listings but in addition ALWAYS the following
"Scotland's Future - Generation 2014, BBC News, Factual, Politics, TV, default"

If I specify the PID, it shows two programmes found, the correct one and also the one mentioned above.

I'm puzzled how and why this always appears and, more importantly, how to solve the problem.

Thanks

Alan

You don't say which programme is ostensibly a duplicate of "Scotland's Future", so I can't investigate further. Regardless of that, I can't reproduce the problem you describe. My best guess is that some bad metadata - since corrected - was posted on the iPlayer site and you somehow got two episodes with the same PID in your cache. Open %USERPROFILE%\.get_iplayer\tv.cache in a text editor (but *not* Notepad) and delete the record for "Scotland’s Future". It should be repopulated when the cache is next refreshed. Alternatively, you could download "Scotland's Future" with --modes=flashlow (to make it faster) and it will be skipped with a warning when you attempt to download Storyville.

Hmmm I did infer it was any programme so let me give you 4 examples:




I'll try your suggestion in the morning, thanks.

Actually I tried deleting the entry but now get an error "don't call method "new" on an undefined value at get_iplayer.pl line 1674" !!!

Anyway when I tried deleting the cache altogether, my original fault occurs again as previously described. Obviously the additional programme is not downloaded again, as it has already been downloaded before. But it shows up on every search and it's irritating if I have moved it to another folder or deleted it because if I do a then it gets downloaded again, even if I specify a single PID.

I meant in the above post.

Quote:<div class="d4p-bbp-quote-title">Quote:</div>I meant –force in the above post.

Hmmm a double "-" doesn't show up on this board!!

Post the output from:




Scrub your username from the output if required.

Quote:Hmmm a double “-” doesn’t show up on this board!!

Use the "code" formatting button.

OK this is the output of "get_iplayer --show-prefs"

Options in 'C:\Users\*********/.get_iplayer/options'
search = (future)
type = radio
refreshfuture = 1

The problem is that somehow you got into your options file. Never put a search string in your options file. It is applied to all searches, so can mess up the results, as you've seen. Remove that line from your options file.

No idea how it got there but many thanks, all sorted!

Alan

It usually happens when you have a search string in a command line with . That might be what you want for creating a preset, but otherwise be careful to include only named options with