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
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> 
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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