BobSammers wrote: 
> To be clear, I'm not suggesting manual creation of favourites - all mine
> were created in the GUI in the usual way
I can't reconcile this statement with previous post  which  said "*it
turned out to be relatively simple to edit the entries in the favourites
file"* 

You didn't  say - use the GUI to re-save the updated menu entries in the
usual way.

> It seems that storing just the PID and feeding that to a
> "BBCiPlayerExtra::ExtraPlayerPIDParser", if such a thing exists (or can
> easily be produced), could be more robust.
PIDs are not all the same, they don't all live for a long time, can be
changed if program is edited after broadcast (i.e. same program gets new
pid) and can be re-categorised. All at the BBC's whim.

Not sure what you think a "PIDParser " would do.  PIDs are found by
navigating the menu.  The Extra Station menu are driven by the same
plugin feed as BBCiPlayer  - so API delivers a program PID.  The Extra
plugin goes through the menus and finds the URLs for the entries which
may lead to a Program PID, Series PID, a Season PID or a Brand PID.

I'm pretty sure the PID in your "Just a Minute" favorite is just for
Series 64 - which means you'll need to update the favorite for Series
65.
Example of Brand vs Series  ( these first URL may not be valid in 7 days
time as PID will be gone) .

Book at bedtime.
Series - just one book 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dpjn/episodes/player

Brand - all books available
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtlx/episodes/player


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