[gpodder-devel] Different episodes from the same channel, ends up as the same file with different headings

  • From: thp at perli.net (Thomas Perl)
  • Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:11:12 +0200

Hello, Bj?rn!

If you download the URLs from another utility (web browser, etc..), do
the file contents differ?

Thanks,
Thomas


On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 22:08 +0200, Bj?rn Rasmussen wrote:
> On Saturday 25 August 2007 07:53:39 Thomas Perl wrote:
> > Hello, Bj??rn!
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 22:58 +0200, Bj??rn Rasmussen wrote:
> > > When I download multiple episodes from the same channel, most of
> them
> > > ends up as the same mp3 file, but with correct titles/headings.
> It's
> > > not likely that this problem is caused by the channel.  It's the
> most
> > > importent radiostation in Norway.  If its caused by the station,
> you
> > > should also get the same problem.  You can try subscribing to
> > > http://podkast.nrk.no/program/saann_er_livet.rss for example.
> >
> > What do you mean with "most of them ends up as the same mp3 file"?
> Are
> > they saved to one file, essentially overwriting each other on
> downloads?
> > How can they have the correct titles/headings then?
> 
> Hi Thomas, again sorry for the late repons!
> 
> 1. I check for new episodes.
> 2. I answer yes to download them, for all channels.
> 3. gpodder downloads all episodes according to the list I got when I
> checked.
> 4. I reallize that many of the episodes have equal file length.
> 5. When I play those of equal lenth from the gui, I can confirm they
> are the 
> same files, even the titles are different.  The titles are correct
> according 
> to the list I got, prior to downloading.
> 
> Hope this helps :-)
> 
> >
> > > I've running gpodder 0.9.4, installed from the newest Fedora 7
> rpm.
> > >
> > > I've tried to remove all gpodder related files from the users
> > > homedirectory, before I removed the package (because it whas an
> > > upgraded version) and reinstalled it again.  All other Fedora
> packages
> > > are the newest.
> >
> > Maybe you mean the MD5-summed filenames look strange to you? gPodder
> > uses directory names and file names that look like
> > "f8eda9e8d18cee72ac3105096bdd9568" or
> > "a961d6c6e6b0993617f1b3282439009e.mp3" (that's the NRK P2 podcast
> and
> > its newest episode). If you want to have better names, you can use
> the
> > "sync" feature of gPodder to do a one-way sync of your podcasts to a
> > local directory (filesystem-based MP3 player is the option in
> question).
> 
> I didn't check the real files, only observed them from the gui.  I
> sync to a 
> mp3-player.  Seem to work ok, because the problem is reflected on the
> player 
> (different filenames on equal files).  The player see the same thing
> as the 
> gui.
> >
> > The reason for this is that URLs and filenames of podcast files are
> so
> > unpredictable that the only good way to differentiate between them
> is by
> > URL, because if the URL is the same, the file contents should also
> be
> > the same.
> >
> > Hope that clears things up, or is there a real bug here, unrelated
> to
> > md5-summed filenames?
> 
> To sum up:  After a week, I download about 5 files from one channel.
> Sync 
> them to the player.  Typically there are only 2 unique files on the
> player.  
> The same goes for the gui.
> 
> ...
> 
> I decided to test the svn-version and got the same problems:
> 
> 1. Removed the old gpodder-files from my home directory, to get a
> clean start.
> 2. Checked the channel http://podkast.nrk.no/program/andakten.rss.
> 3. Got five different episodes in the gui, which I downloaded.
> 4. All turned up as the same file:
> 
> ls -Rl gpodder-downloads
> gpodder-downloads:
> totalt 4
> drwxrwxr-x 2 bjoern bjoern 4096 2007-09-03 21:54 
> c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957
> 
> gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957:
> totalt 13164
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bjoern bjoern 2690427 2007-08-29 18:20 
> 550487a7fffb7248b2e2cc2e5ad049dd.mp3
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bjoern bjoern 2690427 2007-08-29 18:20 
> 62f80e5b260919e805b5acc5022bc5d8.mp3
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bjoern bjoern 2690427 2007-08-29 18:20 
> 7829c3295608371af0191256d28542a6.mp3
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bjoern bjoern 2690427 2007-08-29 18:20 
> ad54e43299d7ac8f4faf2c76ee31809c.mp3
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bjoern bjoern 2690427 2007-08-29 18:20 
> d55442e69e859019a676da7685597580.mp3
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bjoern bjoern    3193 2007-09-03 21:54 index.xml
> 
> As you can see, equal length of them all.  I played the to confirm.  I
> did 
> this test twice and got the exact same result.
> 
> Here's the test output:
> 
> $ make test
> bin/gpodder --local --verbose
> (DownloadHistory) Creating new history list.
> (PlaybackHistory) Creating new history list.
> (ipodsync) Could not find pymad.
> (ipodsync) Found eyeD3
> (ipodsync) PyID3 not found - falling back to channel cover for iPod
> cover art
> (ipodsync) Found mplayer, using it to find track length of files
> (Importer) Cannot import OPML from 
> URL: /home/bjoern/.config/gpodder/channels.opml
> Player found: Movie Player (/usr/share/applications/totem.desktop)
> Player found: Rhythmbox Music Player 
> (/usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop)
> Player found: Listen Music Player 
> (/usr/share/applications/fedora-listen.desktop)
> Player found: Audacious 
> (/usr/share/applications/fedora-audacious-plugins.desktop)
> Player found: Xine (/usr/share/applications/rpmforge-xine.desktop)
> Player found: RealPlayer 10 (/usr/share/applications/realplay.desktop)
> Player found: BMPx: Play Files
> (/usr/share/applications/bmp-play-2.0.desktop)
> Player found: Audacity
> (/usr/share/applications/fedora-audacity.desktop)
> Player found: GXine Video Player 
> (/usr/share/applications/fedora-gxine.desktop)
> Player found: VLC media player (/usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop)
> Player found: Serpentine Audio-CD Creator 
> (/usr/share/applications/fedora-serpentine.desktop)
> Player found: Wavbreaker
> (/usr/share/applications/fedora-wavbreaker.desktop)
> Player found: Audacious
> (/usr/share/applications/fedora-audacious.desktop)
> Player found: Muine Music Player 
> (/usr/share/applications/fedora-muine.desktop)
> Player found: MPlayer (/usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop)
> Player found: Audio Player 
> (/usr/share/applications/redhat-audio-player.desktop)
> Player found: mkvinfo (/usr/share/applications/livna-mkvinfo.desktop)
> Player found: Exaile Music Player 
> (/usr/share/applications/fedora-exaile.desktop)
> Player found: Sweep (/usr/share/applications/fedora-sweep.desktop)
> Player found: Rosegarden
> (/usr/share/applications/fedora-rosegarden.desktop)
> Player found: BMPx: Enqueue Files 
> (/usr/share/applications/bmp-enqueue-2.0.desktop)
> Player found: EasyTAG (/usr/share/applications/easytag.desktop)
> Player found: Kaboodle (/usr/share/applications/kde/kaboodle.desktop)
> Player found: Kaffeine (/usr/share/applications/kde/kaffeine.desktop)
> Player found: KMid (/usr/share/applications/kde/kmid.desktop)
> Player found: JuK (/usr/share/applications/kde/juk.desktop)
> Player found: Noatun (/usr/share/applications/kde/noatun.desktop)
> Player found: Amarok (/usr/share/applications/kde/amarok.desktop)
> (Importer) Cannot import OPML from 
> URL: /home/bjoern/.config/gpodder/channels.opml
> Adding new channel: http://podkast.nrk.no/program/andakten.rss
> (podcastChannel) Generating TreeModel for 
> http://podkast.nrk.no/program/andakten.rss
> Trying to 
> delete: 
> /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/.tmp-550487a7fffb7248b2e2cc2e5ad049dd.mp3
> Command: 
> wget --timeout=120 --continue
> --output-document="/home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/.tmp-550487a7fffb7248b2e2cc2e5ad049dd.mp3"
>  "http://podkast.nrk.no/filer/andakten/nrk_andakten_2007-0903-0818_13401.mp3";
> Trying to 
> delete: 
> /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/.tmp-7829c3295608371af0191256d28542a6.mp3
> Command: 
> wget --timeout=120 --continue
> --output-document="/home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/.tmp-7829c3295608371af0191256d28542a6.mp3"
>  "http://podkast.nrk.no/filer/andakten/nrk_andakten_2007-0831-0818_13212.mp3";
> Trying to 
> delete: 
> /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/.tmp-62f80e5b260919e805b5acc5022bc5d8.mp3
> Command: 
> wget --timeout=120 --continue
> --output-document="/home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/.tmp-62f80e5b260919e805b5acc5022bc5d8.mp3"
>  "http://podkast.nrk.no/filer/andakten/nrk_andakten_2007-0830-0818_13211.mp3";
> Trying to 
> delete: 
> /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/.tmp-ad54e43299d7ac8f4faf2c76ee31809c.mp3
> Command: 
> wget --timeout=120 --continue
> --output-document="/home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/.tmp-ad54e43299d7ac8f4faf2c76ee31809c.mp3"
>  "http://podkast.nrk.no/filer/andakten/nrk_andakten_2007-0829-0818_13210.mp3";
> Trying to 
> delete: 
> /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/.tmp-d55442e69e859019a676da7685597580.mp3
> Command: 
> wget --timeout=120 --continue
> --output-document="/home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/.tmp-d55442e69e859019a676da7685597580.mp3"
>  "http://podkast.nrk.no/filer/andakten/nrk_andakten_2007-0828-0818_13209.mp3";
> Download thread finished: Adding downloaded item to local database
> Local 
> database: 
> /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/index.xml
> (DownloadHistory) Adding: 
> http://podkast.nrk.no/filer/andakten/nrk_andakten_2007-0828-0818_13209.mp3
> (DownloadHistory) Wrote 1 history entries.
> Download thread finished: Adding downloaded item to local database
> Local 
> database: 
> /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/index.xml
> (DownloadHistory) Adding: 
> http://podkast.nrk.no/filer/andakten/nrk_andakten_2007-0903-0818_13401.mp3
> (DownloadHistory) Wrote 2 history entries.
> Download thread finished: Adding downloaded item to local database
> Local 
> database: 
> /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/index.xml
> (DownloadHistory) Adding: 
> http://podkast.nrk.no/filer/andakten/nrk_andakten_2007-0829-0818_13210.mp3
> (DownloadHistory) Wrote 3 history entries.
> Download thread finished: Adding downloaded item to local database
> Local 
> database: 
> /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/index.xml
> (DownloadHistory) Adding: 
> http://podkast.nrk.no/filer/andakten/nrk_andakten_2007-0831-0818_13212.mp3
> (DownloadHistory) Wrote 4 history entries.
> Download thread finished: Adding downloaded item to local database
> Local 
> database: 
> /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/index.xml
> (DownloadHistory) Adding: 
> http://podkast.nrk.no/filer/andakten/nrk_andakten_2007-0830-0818_13211.mp3
> (DownloadHistory) Wrote 5 history entries.
> Trying to get settings for http://podkast.nrk.no/program/andakten.rss
> Downloading cover 
> to /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/cover
> Reading cover 
> from /home/bjoern/gpodder-downloads/c5bad60281daada37af6aff51c665957/cover
> Saving settings for http://podkast.nrk.no/program/andakten.rss 



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