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11 years ago Original comment from Matt Robinson at 12:05:28 on 2010-05-31
I've had a look at http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/vinylcafe.xml and for some reason the comment tag in this prevents it from being recognised as valid XML by the XmlDocument.LoadXml method.
However, using the XmlDocument.Load method with a stream input instead causes it to load without errors, and seems to be a generally more reliable way of loading XML data, so that looks like the best way of implementing this.
http://radiomensa.net/atom.aspx is an atom feed, which isn't currently supported by Radio Downloader (but feel free to raise a bug requesting support for them).
However, http://radiomensa.net/podcasts-only/rss2.aspx loads fine for me and displays a list of episodes. This could have been a temporary problem with the feed itself.
Original report from wayland28pds@btinternet.com at 01:48:18 on 2010-05-31
There seem to be two kinds of podcast feed which the Radio Downloader doesn't handle. The first is the CBC Radio podcast feed such as Vinyl Cafe. I know the feed is valid because it works in Google Reader, but Radio Downloader says: "The data returned from the specified URL was not a valid RSS feed". The feed in question is: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/vinylcafe.xml
Another type of feed which works perfectly in Google Reader but not in Radio Downloader is the M-Radio or Radio Mensa feed: http://radiomensa.net/podcasts-only/rss2.aspx or, alternatively: http://radiomensa.net/atom.aspx these aspx feeds cause the same error message: "The data returned from the specified URL was not a valid RSS feed".
Imported from Bug 272 in the NerdoftheHerd.com Bugzilla.