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Title: Minor podcast issue
Post by: m1abrams on May 10, 2006, 02:18:51 pm

I have been noticing a minor bug in the PodCasts.  On some podcasts media center does not get an image for it, even though the podcast includes a valid image.

This podcast does get an image:
http://leoville.tv/podcasts/twit.xml

This podcast does NOT get an image
http://www.coffeegeek.com/podcasts/cgpodcast.xml

When looking at the RSS for each one I noticed that the one that does not get the image the url tag is formatted as the following:

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<url>
 http://www.coffeegeek.com/podcasts/cgpodcasticon1.jpg
</url>

The one above that works is formatted as such

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<url>http://leoville.tv/podcasts/coverart/twit144.jpg</url>

Notice the coffeegeek one contains linefeeds, wondering if that is throwing media center off.  If so could media center adjusted to trim whitespace on the url?

Title: Re: Minor podcast issue
Post by: m1abrams on May 15, 2006, 04:50:33 pm

So no one else has noticed this issue with your podcasts?

Also is there a better place to report bugs?

Title: Re: Minor podcast issue
Post by: JimH on May 15, 2006, 05:47:41 pm

The best place might be the podcast thread.  Sorry we missed this.

Title: Re: Minor podcast issue
Post by: Gene on May 16, 2006, 02:15:13 pm

Quote from: m1abrams on May 10, 2006, 02:18:51 pm

I have been noticing a minor bug in the PodCasts.  On some podcasts media center does not get an image for it, even though the podcast includes a valid image.

...snip...

Notice the coffeegeek one contains linefeeds, wondering if that is throwing media center off.  If so could media center adjusted to trim whitespace on the url?

Actually, we do nothing with the URL in the feed.  The image you see is associated with one of the media files in the podcast, found in the file's id3v2 header.

Now that you've mentioned it, we'll consider using an image URL from the feed in the future....

thanks

Title: Re: Minor podcast issue
Post by: m1abrams on May 16, 2006, 02:18:21 pm

Oh well that would explain why some have the image and some dont then.

Adding support for grabbing the image from the feed url if one does not exist in the file header would be a nice feature.  I would say about half of my podcasts do not embed the image.