Strange behavior when using bashpodder

Mortuis · Post by **Mortuis** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:41 pm

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?

Post by **dann** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:31 pm

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

Mortuis · Post by **Mortuis** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:45 pm

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?

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:27 am

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.

Mortuis · Post by **Mortuis** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:08 pm

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.