using Win10 v1809 build 17763.437 64bit
latest gip 3.20.0
in the UK

GIP working fine for radio and TV, except for this one programme alone:

"
C:\Users\Username>get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=m00040hk
get_iplayer 3.20.0-MSWin32, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
 conditions; use --conditions for details.


Episodes:
Profile - Andrew Moffat, BBC iPlayer, m00040hk
INFO: 1 total programmes

INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (available versions: podcast2)
"
Programme can be downloaded direct from website as an mp3 (not via GIP).

Verbose version follows

The giP download works here.

My options file includes


I get this:

Many thanks for your quick reply, forget.it.
I've just tried adding your prefs, and got exactly the same result as before, then struggled to reverse the prefs changes (yes, it is all in the help, but I don't think I've ever needed to do this before).
Very strange that I have no trouble with previous episode (Profile_-_Oliver_Letwin_m0003snn) of the same programme.
I've tried flushing cache and restarting giP to no avail, so now I will have to reluctantly try the techie's ultimate weapon and power cycle the PC.

(14-04-2019, 12:59 PM)INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (available versions: podcast2)

It's never a bad idea to actually read the output before posting. If get_iplayer can't figure out which programme version to download, it tells you which ones are available so that you can do it.

Dinky

Thanks for that: I can confirm that --versions=podcast2 was enough to allow download.
The metadata shows that "versions=podcast" for previous episodes changed to "versions=podcast2" for the awkward one, as the PID changed from m0003snn to m00040hk, perhaps indicating a change of CDN.
Presumably get_iplayer has a series of "versions" coded as defaults (in the same way as it does for "modes" and so on), though I haven't yet found this in the documentation; I've never needed to change this setting hitherto.
If I were to add podcast2 via prefs, would it take precedence over other settings?  If so, would I need to add the normal defaults explicitly and in sequence to avoid this?
I would like to thank you and all the others who have contributed to the development and maintenance of get_iplayer, which has been so useful to me over many years, particularly in time-shifting radio programmes for my wife to listen to when she has been stuck in hospital.

This programme is an outlier. When this happens, just re-download using a version that get_iplayer indicates is available. That said, get_iplayer needs some changes to adapt to the BBC's recent penchant for making only podcast edits available. We'll implement some sort of workaround for the next release.

Don't add "podcast2" to your preferences. You should never define a version list in preferences unless you always need to select TV programmes with audio description or signing.

Dinky (& Chuck Bennett)

Thanks for explaining why the Profile Programme (Andrew Moffat - m00040hk) failed to download.  My system also failed to download it but I hadn't got around to checking the logs.  I understand better now.

The next Profile (Danny Rose - m00045sx) also failed to download at about 0530 yesterday (Sun 14-Apr) and also failed today (Mon 14-Apr) at about the same time.  Suspecting a similar problem, I checked my log file for "available versions:", but the line didn't exist.  The pid was in the radio.cache on both days.

So I've just tried a manual download (~1400 on 15-Apr), and it has now worked fine.  Can one assume that this was a problem at the beeb?

Now I know a little more about odd podcast versions, I went digging in my logs and found another culprit - "Only Artists: Series 7 - Debbie Wiseman meets Peter Kosminsky, BBC iPlayer, m00035n4".  GiP reports that the available version for this is podcast3.

Thanks again, Dinky, for the hard work and keeping us sane.

pf

(15-04-2019, 03:13 PM)So I've just tried a manual download (~1400 on 15-Apr), and it has now worked fine.  Can one assume that this was a problem at the beeb?

It appears so.

Bottom line: If the only available version of a radio programme is "podcastX" (where X = 2,3,...), it will not be recognised by default and the download will fail with the "No versions of this programme were selected"  message. Use the --versionlist option to target the available version shown in the warning message. This will be fixed in the next release. This problem has been added to the knownissues page in wiki, so I'm closing this thread.

If a lot of programmes begin to exhibit this problem with podcast versions, it might worth temporarily changing your preferences (contrary to what I wrote above)  until a new release is available. Do it like this:


With "default" as the first value, the default version list is still checked as normal before the additional podcast versions. Remember to remove this from your preferences when you upgrade to the next release.

Fixed in v3.21