I'm affected by this as well. When I add specific podcasts and close the application, Banshee crashes at the next start. It doesn't happen with every podcast, but with those that do invoke the crashes the problem is reproducible.
Some (arbitrarily chosen) examples: WDR 2 Kabarett (http://www1.wdr.de/radio/podcasts/wdr2/kabarett132.podcast) - breaks Banshee WDR Quarks & Co (http://podcast.wdr.de/quarks.xml) - breaks Banshee Pentacast (http://www.c3d2.de/pentacast.xml) - does not break Banshee IT-Cast (http://www.it-cast.de/?feed=podcast) - does not break Banshee In my opinion this looks like a problem with special characters, string encodings or something in that venue. Maybe the "crash casts" have some kind of problematic character in the podcast name, an episode name, an episode description etc. When the podcast is added, this gets stored in Banshees database, and at following restarts the application trips over it badly. There's another observation that may help you to find the cause of the problem: I've been listening to the first podcast from the above list for several years with Banshee, and it never gave me problems. This was on an Ubuntu machine that was upgraded with every release from 2010 or 2011 to 14.04 LTS. Recently, I got a new machine that I installed 14.04 LTS on, and the WDR 2 Kabarett podcast makes Banshee crash every time I tried to add the podcast. In my opinion this indicates that it's rather a problem of getting the data into the database when adding the podcast in contrast to loading data that previous versions (of Banshee? of Mono? of SQLite?) wrote to the db. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315966 Title: banshee crashes on startup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/1315966/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
