get_iplayer 3.05 released

[Alan Milewczyk]

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release300to309#release305


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[Budge]

Post by Alan Milewczyk
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release300to309#release305

I have noticed a couple of changes with this release having gone from
3.03 to 3.05.

First is there is now a much more prominent advisory on deleting older
downloads. What has prompted this additional reminder?

Second, I can no longer see the download progrees expressed in Bytes,
bits or minutes and seconds. I found this very helpful when managing
our rather poor bandwidth. Can I get it back? --verbose perhaps?

Otherwise my grateful thanks to all who make this possible.
Budge.

[CJB]

Using the Windows PVR & Command Line versions v3.02:

* I like the download progress in #'s or bytes because I too have a
flaky and slow connection - a Three wifi dongle that keeps
disconnecting.

* I like the listings of new programmes added to the caches after a
refresh. Then I can do a 'Find' in the browser looking for new
programmes by keywords.

* I went back to v3.02 to regain these features.

* I don't need to delete old versions of programmes because I do that
manually after I have listened to same - which can take me months.

* The only quirk I've found is that I end up with two files - one with
a thumb nail image (original-temp), and one without (original).

CJB

Post by Budge

Post by Alan Milewczyk
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release300to309#release305

I have noticed a couple of changes with this release having gone from
3.03 to 3.05.
First is there is now a much more prominent advisory on deleting older
downloads. What has prompted this additional reminder?
Second, I can no longer see the download progrees expressed in Bytes,
bits or minutes and seconds. I found this very helpful when managing
our rather poor bandwidth. Can I get it back? --verbose perhaps?
Otherwise my grateful thanks to all who make this possible.
Budge.
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[Vangelis forthnet]

Post by Budge
there is now a much more prominent advisory
on deleting older downloads.

Hello Alastair; this is the result of
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/c0162b2
From
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release300to309#changes-in-303

Post by Budge

get_iplayer no longer prompts you to delete downloaded files
more than 30 days old. It displays a warning message instead.
The warning is also now displayed with --pid and --url
and with PVR searches (CLI and Web PVR Manager).
As before, the warning can be suppressed with
get_iplayer --prefs-add --no-purge

What has prompted this additional reminder?

Your guess is as good as mine; you'd have to register
with the Support Forums and ask the developer there
for a definitive answer...

Post by Budge
I can no longer see the download progrees
expressed in Bytes, bits or minutes and seconds.
(snip)
Can I get it back? --verbose perhaps?

Again, the result of
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/8cf8913

Post by Budge
The default logging output has been reduced.
Some unnecessary output has been removed,
and some is now only visible with --verbose

Thankfully, I am not afraid of using my text editor
to revert locally some of the changes I am not
entirely OK with; for all you know, "unnecessary"
might be indispensable to another person...
(But I shouldn't be publicly critisising the decisions
made by the coder, I am already blocked on GitHub
for being vocal in the past...)

Post by Budge
my grateful thanks to all who make this possible.

... That would boil down to actually three persons:
1. @dinkypumpkin, the main maintainer/developer
and owner of the GitHub repositories
2. @squarepenguin, owner of the Support Forum website
3. Jon Hedgerows, responsible for various GiP PPAs.

Though not linked immediately with development,
I would also thank the maintainer of this list
(David Woodhouse) and praise all volunteers
helping in this list and forums...

Besr regards,
Vangelis.