Bug 346460 - Podcast Directory doesn't work anymore
Summary: Podcast Directory doesn't work anymore
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: amarok
Classification: Applications
Component: Services/Podcast Directory (show other bugs)
Version: 2.8-git
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: 2.9
Assignee: Amarok Developers
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Keywords: junior-jobs, regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-04-22 07:33 UTC by Myriam Schweingruber
Modified: 2015-08-04 11:21 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Myriam Schweingruber 2015-04-22 07:33:07 UTC
Currently the Podcast directory doesn't yield any results.

TODO: check if the source changed, or what else might be wrong in the OPML directory
Comment 1 Aditya Dev Sharma 2015-07-25 14:00:50 UTC
I would like to do this JJ. I am new here and I use Amarok as my primary Music Player. I'd like to do something for it. Is this bug okay for someone new as me.  Any tips for where to look in the codebase.

PS : I have subscribed to the mailing list, where I got its notification.
Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2015-07-25 14:28:36 UTC
Adity: hi and welcome. Yes, feel free to have a look, the first thing to explore is to check if the sources have changed. My podcast subscriptions do work, so I don't think the problem is the podcast stack as a whole, more likely it is the actually OPML directory having changed its URL.

There were changes to the URL formats at some point that caused problems, namely in the UTF-8 formatting in the saved playlists, maybe this is also a path to explore.
Comment 3 Aditya Dev Sharma 2015-07-25 14:33:33 UTC
By that, do you mean checking the source from the previous build to see if anything's changed ?
Comment 4 Aditya Dev Sharma 2015-07-30 02:44:47 UTC
The bug is not reproducible in KDE Platform 4.14.2 
http://s9.postimg.org/75qvocb8v/snapshot1.png      
http://s15.postimg.org/hxt9qy6mj/snapshot2.png
Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2015-08-04 11:21:02 UTC
Weird, it still doesn't work for me, so maybe it is the distribution I did build it on.

Closing for now, we need to see if this will be reproducible by others once the beta is out.