Two unrelated Podcast entries get mixed into one

[Ingo Ruhnke]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Using Ubuntu 9.10 and Rhythmbox 0.12.5 it happens every now and then that two completly different podcast episodes from different feeds get merged into one. The title and the feed column then show info from one episode, but the underlying MP3 and time column as well as the description point to a different episode of a different podcast feed. One such entry would be (taken from /home/ingo/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml):

  <entry type="podcast-post">
    <title>Item #372 - How To Sing To A Preschooler</title> <-- (1)
    <genre>Podcast</genre>
    <artist>Dr Chris Smith, The Naked Scientists</artist> <-- (2)
    <album>One Minute How-To</album> <-- (1)
    <duration>3935</duration>
    <file-size>23658468</file-size>
    <location>file:///share/podcasts/One%20Minute%20How-To/Naked_Scientists_Show_09.11.01.mp3</location> <-- (2)
    <mountpoint>http://nakeddiscovery.com/libsyn/Naked_Scientists_Show_09.11.01.mp3</mountpoint> <-- (2)
    <first-seen>1266515408</first-seen>
    <rating>2.5</rating>
    <bitrate>48</bitrate>
    <date>0</date>
    <mimetype>application/x-id3</mimetype>
    <status>100</status>
    <description>The most distant object ever discovered as well as the events of National Pathology week feature in this week's show as we take on your science questions! We investigate whysocks go missing in the wash, whether light from the sun is a continuous beam and whether numerous vaccines can be given together in one dose. We also find out how higher heels make for a better runner and reveal the world's fastest camera. Plus, we find out why we get a better signal when holding an aerial and show you how to make a helicopter using card and pencils!</description> <- (2)
    <subtitle>http://feeds.feedburner.com/OneMinuteHowTo</subtitle> <- (1)
    <summary></summary>
    <lang></lang>
    <copyright></copyright>
    <image></image>
    <post-time>1266469260</post-time>
    <mb-trackid></mb-trackid>
    <mb-artistid></mb-artistid>
    <mb-albumid></mb-albumid>
    <mb-albumartistid></mb-albumartistid>
    <mb-artistsortname></mb-artistsortname>
    <album-sortname></album-sortname>
  </entry>

The feeds are:

1) http://feeds.feedburner.com/OneMinuteHowTo
2) http://www.thenakedscientists.com/naked_scientists_podcast.xml

There don't seem to be any obvious naming conflicts between the feeds or the MP3 that could explain the behavior. I don't have a way to reproduce it, but it has happened to me multiple times with different Podcasts.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending to bug to GNOME

[Angel Abad (angelabad)]

In bugzilla.gnome.org Jonathan Matthew says:

"Without some concrete steps to reproduce this problem, I don't think we're
going to be able to figure it out."

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Any news about this? could you give us some easy steps in order to reproduce the bug? otherwise both bugs are going to be closed.

[Ingo Ruhnke (grumbel)]

The only maybe related information I could provide is that Rhythmbox also every now and then reshowed old already deleted episodes of a podcast feed, sometimes with a wrong date attached, but I haven't looked deeper into that, so I can't tell if its a related bug or just something wrong with the feed itself.

As far as reproduction goes, I can't really provide any more info, its just something that happened every now and then, not in specific use cases or with specific feeds as far as I could tell.

Anyway, in the meantime I have upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 and thus Rhythmbox 0.12.8 and so far I didn't have any issues (aside from it reshowing all episodes of all feeds, but I guess that's expected behaviour on an upgrade).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still get the issue with the current version in lucid?

[Ingo Ruhnke (grumbel)]

No, I haven't seen that issue in Lucid so far. So this bugreport can be closed.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

According to last message I will close this report then, Thanks.