Antennapod: can't add podcasts

[chaulo]

Checklist

• [x ] I have used the search function to see if someone else has already submitted the same bug report.
• [x ] I will describe the problem with as much detail as possible.
• [ x] If the bug only to occurs with a certain podcast, I will include the URL of that podcast.

System info

App version: x.y.z

2.01
App source: Google Play / F-Droid / ...

Google Play
Android version: 5.x (Please mention if you are using a custom rom!)
10 QKQ1
Device model:
Xiaomi MI 9T

Bug description

Steps to reproduce:

1. When going to Add a podcast, I have a list of podcast I can add.
2. I click on any of them
3. Then I get "no such podcast" (aucun podcast correspondant)
4. When I try to add a podcast with its link, I get "the server returned a website, not a podcast feed).
   I have no such problem with Castbox app, for example.
   link: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/une-heure-en-séries/id1478534748

Expected behaviour:

Add the podcast

Current behaviour:

First occurred: (e.g. about x days/weeks ago)
Don't know exactly. At least a few weeks.

Environment:

Stacktrace/Logcat:

[if available]

[keunes]

Hi @chaulo,

Thanks for chipping in and I'm sorry you're experiencing this. The problem is that we get information for podcasts from the iTunes database, and their repository is getting worse and worse. You're not the only one to be affected, see e.g. #4390.

Apart from the iTunes database we're also sourcing podcasts from Fyyd. To mitigate the issue, we've submitted a bunch of France Inter/Culture podcasts to that repository. The podcast you were trying to add wasn't in that list, though. I've just submitted it so other users in future will be able to add it in AntennaPod.

In future this problem should be solved because we're tapping into a new database that is being set up: podcastindex.org. The next release of AntennaPod (2.1) will be able to check that database, which should resolve all of the France Inter/Culture issues.

To get the podcast in AntennaPod now, just go to the France Inter website on your phone (https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/une-heure-en-series), select S'abonner > RSS, and choose AntennaPod to open the file.

Hope that works, and sorry for the inconvenience. Let us know if you have any other comments or questions.

[chaulo]

Thanks very much for replying so fast.

I hope that the podcastindex.org list will solve the problem. For the time being, I use the rss links and the "add podcast link" with copy/cut since AntennaPod doesn't appear when clicking directly on a podcast link.

[keunes]

AntennaPod doesn't appear when clicking directly on a podcast link.

Hmm. I seem to have the same issue; the file opens in the browser, rather than proposing a download. I guess that's why we cannot select AntennaPod. @ByteHamster I guess this is due to their server settings, right, rather than being AntennaPod's fault?

[ByteHamster]

I guess this is due to their server settings, right, rather than being AntennaPod's fault?

On my device, AntennaPod is opened. This is either a device setting ("always open with" checkbox) or the used browser does not query the system for supported apps. AntennaPod announces support for all URLs ending with .xml and all with the application/xml content type. The server has both.