GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 616577
Banshee won't download some podcasts
Last modified: 2011-04-19 20:33:19 UTC
Overview: For some podcasts, Banshee will stream an episode, but it won't download the episode. (Which of course means you can't transfer said podcast to any device.) Example: Take the podcast feed for This Week In Science, http://feeds.twis.org/twis/science/. This feed always fails on Banshee, but works on every other podcatcher I've tried (gPodder, Miro, Rhythmbox, iTunes). Running in debug mode shows the following: HttpDownloadTask This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast - June 09, 2009 â This Week in Science Broadcast Error: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.CheckFinalStatus (System.Net.WebAsyncResult result) [0x00000] at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.SetResponseData (System.Net.WebConnectionData data) [0x00000] [1 Debug 20:12:20.044] Finished - Downloading Podcast(s) Steps to Reproduce: - Open Banshee - Subscribe to the following podcast: http://feeds.twis.org/twis/science/ - Try to download any episode. Actual Results: Watch it the status bar flit for a second. Then the downloading stops and nothing is downloaded. The episode will stream, but it simply won't download. Expected Results: It should download the episode Build Date & Platform: Banshee 1.6 on Linux Additional Info: This has happened with the last few versions of Banshee, not just 1.6. I found a scant few other various bug reports, but none that show the System.Net.WebException error. Since it works on four other podcatchers, I doubt it's a problem with the feed itself (and it's happened with other feeds). Maybe the rss parameters Banshee uses needs to be more forgiving?
Huh, I get the 403 messages too, but wget is able to download it fine. Maybe it's all these redirects confusing Banshee/Mono: $ wget -U "Banshee/1.6.0 (http://banshee-project.org/)" http://feeds.twis.org/~r/twis/science/~5/49P8He6joqw/TWIS_2010_03_09.mp3 --2010-04-26 17:57:55-- http://feeds.twis.org/~r/twis/science/~5/49P8He6joqw/TWIS_2010_03_09.mp3 Resolving feeds.twis.org... 74.125.43.121 Connecting to feeds.twis.org|74.125.43.121|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://www.twis.org/audio/podpress_trac/feed/438/0/TWIS_2010_03_09.mp3 [following] --2010-04-26 17:57:56-- http://www.twis.org/audio/podpress_trac/feed/438/0/TWIS_2010_03_09.mp3 Resolving www.twis.org... 66.197.30.162 Connecting to www.twis.org|66.197.30.162|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://media.libsyn.com/media/twis/TWIS_2010_03_09.mp3 [following] --2010-04-26 17:57:57-- http://media.libsyn.com/media/twis/TWIS_2010_03_09.mp3 Resolving media.libsyn.com... 38.100.193.81, 205.234.249.196 Connecting to media.libsyn.com|38.100.193.81|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://cdn4.libsyn.com/twis/TWIS_2010_03_09.mp3?nvb=20100427005027&nva=20100428010027&t=0a4c72fa3d384b2939dc5 [following] --2010-04-26 17:57:59-- http://cdn4.libsyn.com/twis/TWIS_2010_03_09.mp3?nvb=20100427005027&nva=20100428010027&t=0a4c72fa3d384b2939dc5 Resolving cdn4.libsyn.com... 209.84.17.126, 207.123.48.126, 209.84.3.126 Connecting to cdn4.libsyn.com|209.84.17.126|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 29780583 (28M) [audio/mpeg] Saving to: `TWIS_2010_03_09.mp3?nvb=20100427005027&nva=20100428010027&t=0a4c72fa3d384b2939dc5' 6% [========>
Same problem here. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and Banshee 1.8. A podcast like this: http://radiofrance-podcast.net/podcast09/rss14864.xml will stream alright but the option to download the episode won't work. The progress bar for the download will show but won't manage to get any data and disappears after a few seconds. Note that Amarok is able to download this same podcast without problems. BTW, this podcast is the most listened to for Radio France and it might be the most downloaded one in French.
Sorry for the late reply, I just stumbled on this while looking for another report. The feed in the original report (twis.org) works for me now, probably because the feed is now hosted on feedburner.com For the second feed, this is the same problem as bug #583655. I guess it was also the same problem with twis.org at the time, as it was streaming OK but not downloading. So I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug #583655. Please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 583655 ***