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Can't subscribe to podcasts on blogspot in Rhythmbox

Asked by Brian Z

I am able to add some podcasts to rhythmbox (ones hosted at feeds.feedburner.com seem quite reliable) but many return the following message:

"There was a problem adding this podcast: The feed does not contain any downloadable items. Please verify the URL: [URL given]. Would you like to add the podcast feed anyway?"

This seems to happen consistently with podcasts on blogspot (e.g. http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/ or http://deep-podcast.blogspot.com/). Is anyone else finding this problem, and maybe know a way around it?

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Hans Spaans (hspaans) said : 		#1

The podcasts you mention aren't really podcasts, but just RSS/Atom-feeds with content that may contain links to download them. Podcast-feeds contain additional data to tell the application, Rhythmbox in this case, which parts to download and what the metadata is.

Additional data can be found at http://google.about.com/od/googleblogging/ss/podblogger.htm for example.

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Brian Z (brian-zbr) said : 		#2

That's frustrating. I wish Rhythymbox would just download the audio anyway. Is there at least a good way to search for "real" podcasts that fit this standard, or do I just have to keep looking through trial and error?