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So after discovering bashpodder by accident, I happily moved my podcast functionality over to my linux server. For a week it worked perfectly, but for the last couple weeks now everything it downloads is corrupted. I'll listen to an mp3 from npr for instance, and the audio will skip around like someone chopped up the mp3 and rearranged it a little. At first I thought someone at npr had screwed up, but when I downloaded the mp3 in question directly to my work computer, it sounded just fine.

It's strange since bashpodder is just a script that wget's mp3's, and I haven't touched the server since adding bashpodder other than to harvest podcasts whenever I am bored, so I don't know why the sudden change. I'm going to try manually using wget tonight to grab an mp3 and see how that turns out, I was just wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem?

Is NPR the only feed? Can you post the feed url so I can test it out and see if it happens for me?

dann wrote:Is NPR the only feed? Can you post the feed url so I can test it out and see if it happens for me?

I subscribed to several npr feeds way back when, and their urls don't make it easy to tell which files are coming from which url, so I'll have to get back to you on that.

I tried adding tllts's feed to rule out specific feeds as the problem though, and I haven't heard any problems. So maybe it's an npr issue.

That'd be annoying. I was hoping I just set something up wrong.

For what it's worth, my bp.conf contents are:
http://lugradio.org/episodes.rss
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510014
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510025
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=1019
http://www.kuow.org/podcasts/works/works.asp
http://www.theworld.org/rss/tech.xml
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=1016
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wnku/ ... castId=105
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510061
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510020
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=4986368
http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.ne ... d=73331693
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/rss/einstein-podcast.xml
http://www.justicetalking.org/PodCast.asp
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=1045
http://www.wnyc.org/news/new_york_edition/index.xml
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wnpr/ ... &section=1
http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.ne ... d=73329771
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/ ... ection=231
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=1090
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=4538138
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510038
http://www.thelinuxlink.net/tllts/tllts_ogg.rss


As you can see, it'd take awhile to figure out what's from where.

Are you just downloading to the PC, or are you syncing to an audio player? What do you listen to the files with?

I get audio with bashpodder and then move the files to a flash drive, which I carry with me. I've occasionally had crosslinked files like you describe, but I think it's the fault of the flash drive.

I download to the PC and then scp into my box from work and pull the files to my work computer. I'm going to try removing all the podcasts from bashpodder and then introduce one at a time and see what happens.

This is very strange.