I've just been wasting a bit of time and generally making a fool of
myself attempting to add a podcast to my Squeezecenter. The podcasts in
question are "Stephen Fry's Podgrams". I did a Google search, and
arrived at http://www.stephenfry.com/podcasts/rss.xml which looked like
just what I needed. I added this as a new podcast, and the SB web
interface showed the correct title - looking good so far. I navigated
to it on my SB, and it brought up all the episodes. I chose the first
one and was subjected to a very unpleasent electronic noise that could
probably do some damage to the more sensitive of tweeters. I quickly
stopped it before any harm could be done and then tried to work out
what on earth the problem was.


I'm afraid it took some time and tinkering before I realised that the
page I had found was actually an "Audio & visual podcast". A different
page was available for purely audio podcasts. Once I entered this, all
was fine.

Now I'm sure people more familiar with podcasting will be saying that
it should be obvious what I'd found wasn't suitable, but I still can't
help feeling that it would be very handy if the Squeezecenter software
could do some basic checks on the podcast files themselves before
attempting to play them regardless of suitability. It would be best if
this could be done at the point the podcast URL itself is added.

Does anyone else think that would be a reasonable check? Is it
relatively easy technically? If so, I'm happy to log it as a
bug/enhancement request.


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