Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: rhythmbox
I have subscribed to a few radio podcasts in RB.
I have broadband so it's fast, and it used to work just fine, however, in the
past couple of months, the quality of my internet connection (blame crappy ISP
here!) has decreased significantly (takes ages to connect to a server, transfer
speed is highly unstable, and sometimes plain stops, then resumes when it feels
like it, a second later, or a minute... depends on the mood and server !).
This revealed a serious weakness/problem in RB: 99% of the time, RB fails to
download the podcasts ! Most of the time it just says "Waiting", and sometimes
it downloads 5% of the file then sits there forever and won't move an inch even
if I let it run for 3 days.
Thing is, if I try to download these podcasts in a terminal, using the "wget"
command, it works just fine, and in the worse case, it takes 3 minutes to grab
an episode and that's it.
That's why I think the problem lies within RB...
I suspect that the problem might be that RB times out way too easily, and most
importantly, when it does time out, it gives up for good, and won't insist.
So the solution is probably to do as wget likely does (from what I can see) :
increase the time out greatly when connecting initially to the server. Say a 2
minute time out, not less.
Then once it starts downloading the file, and in the event that transfer speed
drops to zero : DO NOT time out, and just patiently wait for transfer to resume.
** Affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Podcast download mechanism isn't robust enough and often fails
https://launchpad.net/bugs/78524
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