podcasts containing non-audio files handled badly

[James Lewis]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Several of the RSS podcast feeds I listen to, periodically include a video, or pdf file rather than an MP3... Rhythmbox downloads the file, and then says that it failed, I like the fact that it downloads the file, becuase I can see it and watch, or read as required, infact when I sync to my portable player, it can handle both PDF, and video files, so the behaviour is actually good.

The problem I see is that these files are shown to have failed to download, and cannot be played from within rhythmbox.... It would be very useful if rhythmbox could show the files having been downloaded, and possibly show that they are non-audio.... ideally, attempting to play them would spawn an external player, but simply indicating that the file was infact downloaded, but cannot be played would be a great improvement over simply saying "Failed", because retrying will cause the file to be downloaded again, creating a duplicate.

This is on 8.04 with rhythmbox 0.11.5

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 18 15:30:43 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the issue has already been discussed upstream, you can read about it on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319368

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

Similar to this one.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox/+bug/120284