Binary package hint: rhythmbox
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
rhythmbox:
Installed: 0.11.5-0ubuntu6
Candidate: 0.11.5-0ubuntu6
Version table:
*** 0.11.5-0ubuntu6 0
500 http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu hardy/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Ever since upgrading to Hardy Heron (8.04), some Rhythmbox (which I also used in Gutsy 7.10) downloaded podcast media files wouldn't transfer to gtkpod. I noticed that instead of ending in .mp3, they now ended in something like .mp3?nvb=20080529153807&nva=20080530153807&t=05dbec74736273c29b971
The addition of the question mark and other tags at the end appears to cause problems with some multimedia applications. I have to manually search every downloaded podcast folder for files with "broken" extensions and rename them before they will transfer correctly, using gtkpod, to my ipod.
This doesn't consistently happen to ALL of my podcast feeds and I have looked at the feeds that do exhibit this behavior and the enclosures don't list this extra information at the end the the podcast mp3 or ogg file.
Some podcast feeds that exhibit this behavior include. This is not an exhaustive list as I deleted a few that exhibited this behavior that I no longer follow anyway:
* Pauldotcom Security Weekly, http://pauldotcom.com/podcast/psw.xml, it appears that they host their media files on libsyn.com
* Redmonk Radio, http://feeds.feedburner.com/RedmonkRadio, it appears that they host their media files on libsyn.com
* Software Engineering Radio, http://se-radio.net/rss (this actually redirects to a feedburner feed), it appears that they host their media files on libsyn.com
* The Java Posse, http://feeds.feedburner.com/javaposse, it appears that they also host their media files on libsyn.com
Of the current feeds that had new episodes to download, it looks like all of the ones that are having this problem host their media files on libsyn.com. I don't know if that makes any difference, but I found it odd that it seemed to be a common factor.
I thought that the issue might a feedburner.com feed issue (and it still might be), but the Pauldotcom Security podcast doesn't appear (as far as I could tell) to use a feedburner feed and yet still has the problem with the extra garbage at the end of its media file extensions.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 29 13:52:15 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686
thanks for your report, may you run rhythmbox as : rhythmbox --debug &> rhythmbox-