Bug 484794

Summary:	rhythmbox saves podcasts with special characters in filename
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christopher Beland <beland>
Component:	rhythmbox	Assignee:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Christopher Beland 2009-02-09 22:39:53 UTC

So for some podcasts, the filenames when saved to disk have changed from something like:

npr_99498299.mp3

to:

npr_99828138.mp3?_kip_ipx=696291705-1233019251

I don't know what this means or if this is something Rhythmbox is doing, or the podcast provider, but the ? causes problems when I use "cp" to copy saved podcasts to my MP3 player.  It uses a VFAT filesystem, for which ? is apparently an illegal character.  It seems like portable device integration would be easier if special characters were kept out of filenames.

This is with rhythmbox-0.11.6-2.fc9.i386.

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2009-03-24 16:53:25 UTC

I believe that's been fixed in rawhide with the move to GIO for the data access and download. If you want to be doubly-sure, just paste the URL for that Podcast (which would be a good start for problems with Podcasts...).

Comment 2 Christopher Beland 2009-09-11 01:37:53 UTC

Confirmed to be fixed, at least as of rhythmbox-0.12.3-1.fc11.i586.  Thanks!