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ribbons / RadioDownloader

An easy to use application for managing podcast subscriptions and downloads.
https://nerdoftheherd.com/tools/radiodld/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Podcast URLs are now assumed to be http if a protocol is not specified. #186

Closed ribbons closed 11 years ago

ribbons commented 11 years ago

Original report from Peter Watt at 16:22:06 on 2012-09-26

Many thanks for your super programme which I find absolutely great.

One small problem. Some podcasts seem to be moving towards being more i-tunes orientated - PCWorld Podcast used to work for me, but now it has stopped working. It seems that the RSS feed has gone. In its place we only seem to be offered

feeds.pcworld.com/pcworld/itunes/audio

Could Radiodownloader be adapted to also read i-tunes feeds? Or is there another way round this.

Imported from Bug 702 in the NerdoftheHerd.com Bugzilla.

ribbons commented 11 years ago

Original comment from Matt Robinson at 20:34:44 on 2012-09-27

I've checked this out, and the issue is that the URL for that podcast needs to be entered like this into the box on the find new page:

http://feeds.pcworld.com/pcworld/itunes/audio

However, as that isn't totally obvious I'll look into making a quick tweak to the application so that it automatically sticks http:// on the front of the entered URL if it doesn't have a protocol specified.

ribbons commented 11 years ago

Original comment from Matt Robinson at 17:01:57 on 2012-09-28

Implemented my suggestion from comment 1 in a8d1c0a - entered podcast URLs without a protocol are now assumed to be http.

ribbons commented 11 years ago

Original comment from Peter Watt at 17:16:21 on 2012-09-28

I've checked this out, and the issue is that the URL for that podcast needs to be entered like this into the box on the find new page:

http://feeds.pcworld.com/pcworld/itunes/audio

However, as that isn't totally obvious I'll look into making a quick tweak to the application so that it automatically sticks http:// on the front of the entered URL if it doesn't have a protocol specified.

Dear Matt Robinson Many thanks for solving this problem for me and adding a fix to your program. I'm a bit embarrassed by being too dumb to realise it was a missing http://

Your idea of adding a bit of code to insert http:// if it is missing looks like a good minor enhancement which should help less knowledgable like me.

Thanks again Best wishes Peter

ribbons commented 11 years ago

Original comment from Matt Robinson at 17:23:16 on 2012-09-28

Don't feel embarrassed, I'm sure you aren't the only person that has come across this, but thanks for taking the trouble to report it.