Thomas Perl wrote: > Hello! > > O. Emmerson wrote: >> I am subscribed to http://971freefm.com/pages/podcast/43.rss in gpodder. >> The file sizes show up incorrectly when the feed is loaded. If I >> download a file then the correct size is then shown. > > The error is in the RSS feed, not in gPodder. The RSS feed uses the > "length=" attribute of the <enclosure> element wrongly. The "length" > attribute should specify the size of the enclosed file in bytes, in the > metioned feed, the value seems to be (my guess) the length of the audio > in seconds. gPodder can't calculate the correct size. > > One possibility would be to add a menu item to "calculate" the real file > size of all episodes by doing a HTTP HEAD request for each episode and > looking for the content-length header. > > Is this important to you? Can you please try to contact the feed author > (probably 971freefm.com) and tell them to fix their _buggy_ RSS feed? > > Thanks, > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > gpodder-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel > > Thanks for the explanation of the problem. I sent them an email through the contact form on their website with the information about the incorrect use of the attribute.
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