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• On October 7th, 2008 at 4:55 pm, pibs said:
  

  hi phil

  pibs here call me thick but when i try to download the i player thing all i get is pages of writting now not being computerlitrate what does it do lol

  can you put and idiots version up cheers me dears form the very sunny middle east

  pibs

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• On October 7th, 2008 at 7:06 pm, Phil Lewis said:
  

  @pibs,
  Hi, try looking at using the ‘Windows Automated Installer’ under http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/installation/

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• On December 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm, wayfarer_boy said:
  

  Hi Phil

  Thanks for your fantastic script - it’s completely changed my working day having previously run out of fresh things to listen to from my podcast selection! Anyway, I thought you might be able to share or modify and share this script I’m using. It’s a bash script that runs get_iplayer’s pvr every hour to download my subscriptions, then uses eyeD3 to tag the audio files with episode/show info, and renames and moves all downloaded video and audio to a network share drive as show/episode.ext. It’s all commented (although probably doesn’t conform to coding standards - I’m still a relative noob with bash.)

  If you don’t have space to publish the script, please let me know and I’ll submit this on ubuntuforums instead. Thanks once again for a fantastic tool.

  #!/bin/bash

  # A script to download all pvr subscribed iplayer programmes then parse them
  # ID3 tag them (if audio files) and move all files to their related folders on
  # a network share drive (audio shared with mt-daap on an unslung NSLU2)
  # then remove any files older than ## days

  # Please share and repost if you know of better ways to do this
  # I'm definitely not a command-line guru, so I'd love feedback

  # Dependencies for this script tested in Ubuntu Intrepid

  # get_iplayer: wget http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/get_iplayer
  # eyeD3: sudo aptitude install eyeD3

  # For some reason, rhythmbox doesn’t read the comments field when browsing my mt-daap share,
  # so I add a prefix to the artist field in order to sort tracks in date order

  # I like to keep all of my files tidy by naming everything in lowercase and spaces converted to hyphens

  # When creating the ID3 tag, I add “BBC iPlayer” as the album, and the current year to the year field

  if [ \! -f /tmp/iplayer-running ]
  then
  echo “Running” > /tmp/iplayer-running # Flag script as running

  DIR=/home/username/scripts # Loction of get_iplayer script

  VIDEO=/home/username/video/iplayer # Where get_iplayer saves its video files - you can set this in iplayer
  VIDEOTO=/mnt/video-fink/video/iplayer # Folder to move video files to once parsed
  VIDEODAYS=0 # Set number of days to keep recordings

  MUSIC=/home/username/music/iplayer # Where get_iplayer saves its audio files - you can set this in iplayer
  MUSICTO=/mnt/video-fink/music/iplayer # Folder to move audio files to once parsed
  AUDIODAYS=21 # Set number of days to keep recordings

  STAMP=$(date ‘+%y%m%d%H%M%S’) # Create a detailed timestamp
  PREFIX=$(date ‘+%y%m%d’) # Create a shorter timestamp for using as a prefix in the artist field
  LOG=/home/username/log/iplayer-$STAMP.log # Set the location of the log file

  if [[ $(date '+%k') -lt 16 ]] # Check to make sure it’s before Plus.net’s peak time
  then
  $DIR/get_iplayer --pvr # Start get_iplayer’s pvr downloading
  fi

  # Start sorting out the downloaded music files
  cd $MUSIC
  for i in *.mp3
  do
  ID3TAGS=$( echo $i | sed ’s/_default//g’ | sed ’s/\.partial//g’ | sed ’s/_\([a-z0-9]\)\{8\}\.mp3//g’ | sed ’s/_\-_/\`/g’ | tr ‘_’ ‘ ‘ ) # Parse the filename to grab the ID3 data
  TITLE=$( echo $ID3TAGS | cut -d ‘`’ -f 2 ) # Get the title field
  ARTIST=$( echo $ID3TAGS | cut -d ‘`’ -f 1 ) # Get the artist field
  ARTISTFOLDER=$( echo $ARTIST | tr A-Z a-z | tr ‘ ‘ ‘-’ ) # Convert the artist field into a folder name
  FILENAME=$( echo $TITLE | tr A-Z a-z | tr ‘ ‘ ‘-’ ) # Convert the title to lowercase hyphened format
  eyeD3 -t “$PREFIX $TITLE” -A “BBC iPlayer” -a “$ARTIST” -Y “$( date ‘+%Y’ )” $i # Add ID3 tag to file
  mkdir -p $MUSICTO/$ARTISTFOLDER # Create the show folder if it doesn’t exist
  mv $i $MUSICTO/$ARTISTFOLDER/$STAMP-$ARTISTFOLDER-$FILENAME.mp3 # Move the file to the folder
  echo AUDIO: $TITLE - $ARTIST >> $LOG # Log the result
  done

  # Start sorting out the downloaded video files
  cd $VIDEO
  for i in *.mov
  do
  ID3TAGS=$( echo $i | sed ’s/_default//g’ | sed ’s/\.partial//g’ | sed ’s/_\([a-z0-9]\)\{8\}\.mov//g’ | sed ’s/_\-_/\`/g’ | tr ‘_’ ‘ ‘ ) # Parse the filename to grab the filename data
  TITLE=$( echo $ID3TAGS | cut -d ‘`’ -f 2 | tr A-Z a-z | tr ‘ ‘ ‘-’ ) # Get the title of the programme
  ARTIST=$( echo $ID3TAGS | cut -d ‘`’ -f 1 | tr A-Z a-z | tr ‘ ‘ ‘-’ ) # Get the name of the series
  mkdir -p $VIDEOTO/$ARTIST # Create the series folder if it doesn’t exist
  mv $i $VIDEOTO/$ARTIST/$ARTIST-$TITLE.mov # Move the file to the folder
  echo VIDEO: $TITLE - $ARTIST >> $LOG # Log the result
  done

  # Clean up any files older than $VIDEODAYS and $AUDIODAYS
  if [[ $VIDEODAYS -gt 0 ]]
  then
  find $VIDEOTO -mtime +$VIDEODAYS | xargs rm
  fi

  if [[ $AUDIODAYS -gt 0 ]]
  then
  find $AUDIOTO -mtime +$AUDIODAYS | xargs rm
  fi

  rm /tmp/iplayer-running # Remove flag
  else
  echo “ERROR: get_iplayer already running - closing script”;
  fi

  exit 0


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• On December 11th, 2008 at 1:53 pm, wayfarer_boy said:
  

  Sorry Phil… I put the code tags in, but it looks like Wordpress parses newlines as paragraph tags! Messed up your page a bit.

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• On December 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am, Phil Lewis said:
  

  @wayfarer_boy,

  Have you looked at the --command (run arbitrary commands with substitution after a successful d/l), --file-prefix (specify a custom filename), and --id3v2 (where your id3v2 binary is to do the id3 tagging) options of get_iplayer. I suspect you could use those to greatly simplify your script. Also, if you are using --pvr, there is already lockfile detection so you don’t need to detect an already running instance of get_iplayer. You can find examples on some of these in http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation/ or by running ‘get_iplayer -h’

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• On December 18th, 2008 at 10:48 am, Michael said:
  

  I just wanted so say thank you for such a great little utility!

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