no longer playing podcasts or displaying thumbnail images

[SimonXIX]

Describe the bug

I've been using PodFetch for a while running in Docker. Until a couple of weeks ago I was using the podfetch:postgres Docker image which recently disappeared so I switched to podfetch:latest. Although the application starts OK and connects to the Postgres database, the application no longer plays podcasts or displays thumbnail images for subscriptions (similar to https://github.com/SamTV12345/PodFetch/issues/823).

When I click 'play' the word 'test' appears in the player bar and nothing else happens. There is nothing in the log to indicate anything wrong.

This happens on my production server running Ubuntu 22.04.4 and Docker version 24.0.2 as well as on my testing MacBook running Sonama 14.5 with an Apple M1 chip and Docker 27.1.1.

Here's the full docker-compose.yml for the test version:

services:
  podfetch:
    image: samuel19982/podfetch:v4.5.0-c60dad5
    user: ${UID:-1726760676}:${GID:-84944165}
    ports:
      - "80:8000"
    volumes:
      - ./podcasts:/app/podcasts
    environment:
      - GPODDER_INTEGRATION_ENABLED=true
      - BASIC_AUTH=true
      - USERNAME=simonxix
      - PASSWORD=password
      - POLLING_INTERVAL=300
      - SERVER_URL=http://localhost:80
      - DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:changeme@postgres/podfetch
    depends_on:
      - postgres

  postgres:
    image: postgres
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: ${POSTGRES_USER:-postgres}
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-changeme}
      PGDATA: /data/postgres
      POSTGRES_DB: ${POSTGRES_DB:-podfetch}
    volumes:
      - postgres:/data/postgres
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  postgres:

Reproduction

reproduced on Ubuntu and on macOS

System Info

System:
    OS: macOS 14.5
    CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M1
    Memory: 88.88 MB / 8.00 GB
    Shell: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
    Node: 18.7.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.19 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
    npm: 8.15.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 126.0.6478.185
    Safari: 17.5

System:
  OS: Linux 5.15 Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS 22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
  CPU: (2) x64 Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)
  Memory: 60.37 MB / 949.67 MB
  Container: Yes
  Shell: 5.1.16 - /bin/bash
Binaries:
  Node: 12.22.9 - /usr/bin/node
  npm: 8.5.1 - /usr/bin/npm

Used Package Manager

n/a

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[SamTV12345]

Thanks for the issue. test normally means that there was a problem playing your podcast episode. Can you open the dev console of your browser? It should contain more information. Other than that I'll checkout the docker compose myself.

[SimonXIX]

The console reports several 401s when trying to play and it looks like when trying to retrieve images.

[SamTV12345]

Ah. Could it be that you use Basic Auth with username and password? Try to generate an apikey or add the necessary admin api key env variable for that.

[SimonXIX]

Happy to try either. How do I do that?

[SimonXIX]

There we go. Going to 'Profile' and clicking refresh on the API key field in my production (Ubuntu) environment resolved the issue with both playback and images. This could be spelled out in the documentation for installing through Docker.

[billybanana80]

Had the same issue. Thanks for providing the fix.