GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 466158
More tolerant/smart handling of attachments in podcasts
Last modified: 2008-06-15 10:28:49 UTC
I'm using a Podcast for language learning that has MP3 files, but also PDF files with the lesson transcripts. Rhythmbox downloads both, but for the PDF files, it's says "Failed" immediately after the download finished successfully. I think Rhythmbox should be able to handle non-media files a little bit more gracefully. * I should differentiate between successful/unsuccessful download and successful/unsuccessful playback * I could just try to open the file with the standard gnome application for that mimetype.
Do we really want RythymBox downloading files that aren't audio? Wouldn't it be best to have RythymBox only download enclosures of type "audio/*", and leave other media alone? It would also be possible to do as Alexander suggests, and use other applications to open non-Audio files, and have RhythmBox be smarter about marking downloads "failed".
(In reply to comment #0) Alexander, could you point me to this podcast? I'm having trouble finding a Podcast that contains multiple data types.
http://chinesepod.com/diverseizzue/lessons/feed contains mp3 and pdf
This issue appears to be a duplicate of Bug 319368, and should probably be marked as such. I also think that bug 319368 should be renamed, to better reflect the direction decided upon in that bugs' discussion. I'm still looking at how to implement external file launching in Rhythmbox, however.
I agree. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 319368 ***