Enabled subscribing to one-off programmes.

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Original report from jaap at 16:49:00 on 2010-02-16

The subscribe button only appears with series, even if none of them have been broadcast yet.
When a one-off future bbc programme is found through the normal methods, no subscribe button appears.

It would be nice to be able to register the wish to download such programmes, so that it automatically gets downloaded when available. Maybe it should appear in the subscriptions list, and be removed from there once it has been downloaded.

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Imported from Bug 200 in the NerdoftheHerd.com Bugzilla.

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Original comment from Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 at 17:06:05 on 2010-03-20

It's not just one-of singleton programs- as far as I can tell, you can't subscribe to a program before at least one episode's been broadcast, even if it's on the list under BBC. Currently, "Captured By Pirates", and "On Map" (a ten part programme) are listed as available, but cannot be subscribed.

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Original comment from sipseywilderness at 15:53:58 on 2010-05-23

I agree. This is the only thing about Radio Downloader that annoys me.

Thanks
Sipsey

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Original comment from Liz at 19:01:06 on 2010-12-26

Maybe it's just me but I'm not finding a subscribe button for any one-off programme irrespective of whether it has aired or not.

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Original comment from Matt Robinson at 17:13:15 on 2011-01-03

Maybe it's just me but I'm not finding a subscribe button for any one-off
programme irrespective of whether it has aired or not.

I noticed a bit of a glitch with one-off programmes over Christmas, but they seem to be working okay for me again now. Could you raise a new bug if you are still having issues?

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Original comment from jaap at 09:46:09 on 2011-01-04

With the addition of the Favourites list, this enhancement is much less urgent for me than it was when I reported it. I can now at least keep track of unsubscribable programs easily and manually click download when they become available. Of course, it would still be nice if I didn't need to do it that way, so I definitely still stand behind my enhancement request.

FYI, I haven't noticed any glitches recently. I did notice that very occasionally the BBC changed things in their database to mess things up for me. Sometimes a programme I favourited never became available, but when I searched through the a-z I then found a new entry for that programme that did work. Obviously problems like that will remain even if this enhancement is implemented.

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Original comment from Matt Robinson at 15:32:01 on 2011-09-24

Added the option of being able to subscribe to single episode programmes in e09f408.

Single episode subscriptions are removed after the episode has been downloaded, and ignore the auto download flag (as this being unset would cause the subscription to never download anything). Also added a new icon to differentiate between single and multiple episode subscriptions.