This is what I did and what happened: 0. Open Rhythmbox. 1. View http://www.sciencefriday.com/feed/scifrisite.xml in Firefox by clicking on the RSS logo at http://www.sciencefriday.com/feeds/radio/ 2. Select /usr/bin/rhythmbox in the "Subscribe to this feed using" pulldown. 3. Click the "Subscribe now" button. 4. "sciencefriday.com" shows up in Rhthymbox under "Playlists" and is fairly useless. This is with firefox-3.0.2-1.fc9.i386 and rhythmbox-0.11.6-2.fc9.i386. I would be nicer if A.) Rhythmbox was on the "Subscribe to this feed using" pulldown without having to explicitly browse to it and B.) Rhythmbox handled the RSS properly, loading it as a podcast and subcribing to it.
Sorry, that wasn't an audio podcast; a better example is: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510221 It's somewhat confusing in that there are multiple RSS feeds at http://www.sciencefriday.com/feeds/radio/ but clicking on the RSS logo in the location bar only brings up one of them.
The first episode of the audio podcast gets opened and is playable under the "Radio" section, but again it should be subscribed to as a podcast so all episodes are playable.
Filed an upstream bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461429) so from my side it could be closed as UPSTREAM. However, passing the bug to RB folks, because they seem to be ones who would have to take the biggest slack of actual work.
If somebody tells me how to change the "browser.audioFeeds.handler" and add a browser.contentHandlers.types.*.* (as per https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Adding_feed_readers_to_Firefox), I could certainly add Rhythmbox support. Is there a way to drop a file such as chrome://browser-region/locale/region.properties to have this added? Why doesn't Firefox just list all the applications that can handle application/vnd.mozilla.maybe.feed instead?
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I tried reproducing this in Fedora 11 Final with firefox-3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11.x86_64 and rhythmbox-0.12.1-3.fc11.x86_64. There is no need to open Rhythmbox as noted in step 0; it opens itself as needed. After step 3, I got the following error: >> Error in podcast There was a problem adding this podcast: The feed does not contain any downloadable items. Please verify the URL: http://www.sciencefriday.com/feed/scifrisite.xml. Would you like to add the podcast feed anyway? << This actually appears to be correct and proper behavior; I will report the problem to the website. If I view a known-good podcast directly, such as: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510221 This works fine; the only problem is that I have to browse to /usr/bin/rhythmbox manually. Many users would not know how to do that, and it takes a long time due to the number of files in this directory. This bug is still assigned to firefox, and after reading the comments above, I'm confused about whether or not that's intentional.
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