Someone suggested The Bugle podcast (John Oliver & Andy Zaltzman) so I went to iTunes and tried to subscribe. When I try to download any of the files it says
“The file may be corrupted or is a file type that iTunes can not play”
So I figured I’d head straight to the Times Online website and search for the podcast. I’m able to stream it online using Windows Media Player (or for me, flip for mac) but that’s kind of a pain in the ass and i’d rather download it and put it on my ipod. I can’t seem to get that to work. The file seems to download almost instantly and i can’t seem to open it with any program I have.
It looks like the .rss file points to a directory instead of a file for the most recent episode. Could this screw up the rest of the episodes? I really don’t know, but it seems like that’s what’s happening. Here’s the rss file for someone who knows more about it than I do: http://podcast.timesonline.co.uk/rss/thebugle.rss
The latest one - the real episode 55 (last week was a “clip show” because John wasn’t able to broadcast from NYC) isn’t up on iTunes yet. I think it gets updated Sunday or Monday.
I would give it a couple of days for them to sort it out. I’ve been a subscriber for about 5 weeks and never had a problem yet.
As for playing it on your iPod…can’t you right-click the file link from the RSS feed, choose “Save Link As…” (or whatever your browser says) and download the file, then import into iTunes or just move to your iPod?
Don’t give up on The Bugle - it’s worth the hassle
Oh I’ll solve the problem. I suspect it all boils down to the bloody flip4mac that I thought was a good idea but now can’t seem to get rid of. I’m streaming and old one now (which works fine - it’s hilarious) but when I go to the RSS feed and right click, it gives me a file extension of *.m4p and it’s only 4KB.
If I have to stream it every week, well, I’m willing to do it but I do a fair amount of commuting and I’d love to have it on my iPod.
