Antennapod: Cannot subscribe to podcast

[keunes]

Environment
Android version: 6.0.1
OS version: 3.10.49-16063141
AntennaPod version: 1.8.1 (from Google Play)
Model: SM-A300FU
Device: a3ulte (Samsung Galaxy A3)
Product: a3ultexx

No crash report recorded

Expected behaviour: display several podcasts when searching, e.g. when searching 'France inter', display at least both

• 'Le billet d'Eric Delvaux' (appearing with this search string)
• 'Les interviews d'Inter' (appearing when searching for 'France' only, but 'inter' is in the title, so I'd expect it to appear)
  Also, allow to subscribe to the single returned podcast.

Current behaviour: only one podcast is returned for two test strings, and in both cases it's not possible to subscribe to that podcast. An error 'no corresponding podcast' is displayed, and when tapping outside that window, an empty preview screen is displayed.

First occurred: Just today, after a nearly fresh install (only imported few feeds via OPML file, switched default download location from internal to SD-card and selected dark theme)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to 'Add podcast' screen
2. Search for 'France culture' or 'France inter'
3. Tap on single result

[ByteHamster]

Duplicate of #3394. I have no idea why Apple sometimes just removes the url from the search results. This usually works again when retrying a few minutes later.

[keunes]

And what about this issue?

display several podcasts when searching, e.g. when searching 'France inter', display at least both

• 'Le billet d'Eric Delvaux' (appearing with this search string)
• 'Les interviews d'Inter' (appearing when searching for 'France' only, but 'inter' is in the title, so I'd expect it to appear)

My own phone's screen has died so I cannot check atm. But what do you get back with the above search string?

[ByteHamster]

display several podcasts when searching, e.g. when searching 'France inter', display at least both

The API returns both of them (and more) but it does not not return a url for those. Not sure why...

[keunes]

The API returns both of them (and more) but it does not not return a url for those. Not sure why...

Hmm. But then shouldn't both be displayed (regardless whether they include the url or not)? My 'user' (read: partner) complained that the list is too limited, and that his previous app (Podcast Addict) did find all shows. Please see below for the top 8 of them:

Btw, sorry - should I file this under a new issue?

[ByteHamster]

But then shouldn't both be displayed (regardless whether they include the url or not)?

For combining multiple search providers (iTunes and fyyd), we detect duplicates using the url. If multiple results have no url, they are combined to a single result. In #4029, I changed the iTunes search provider to skip podcasts that have no URL (because we can not subscribe to them, anyway).

his previous app (Podcast Addict) did find all shows.

We should probably look for an alternative to the iTunes directory. It is getting more and more unreliable...

[keunes]

The API returns both of them (and more) but it does not not return a url for those

Sorry, only realising just now: do you mean there's many more France Culture podcasts returned by the API (i.e. the ones in the Podcast Addict screenshot) but they're not displayed as they're merged due to missing url? It's interesting we're getting this error, and Podcast Addict isn't (they have an option 'Use iTunes search engine' which I selected). Could there really not be something that AntennaPod does (while requesting/receiving/processing)?

[ByteHamster]

Exactly. The results are all there but they are merged to a single one because they all have the same (empty) url.

No feed urls:
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=France+Inter&media=podcast
Contains feed urls:
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=Methodisch&media=podcast

I do not know why some search queries do not return complete results...