Problems adding Podcasts

[avatiach]

Hi All,

After upgrading to 6.1.1 I am no longer able to add some Podcasts. These worked well previously, but no longer. All problematic podcasts show the following error: Error org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException: Error on line 1: Content is not allowed in prolog.

Examples of Podcasts that fail:
http://www.kan.org.il/rss?pid=1017
http://www.icast.co.il/Rss.aspx?ID=410616

This one did work well though:
http://feeds.stownpodcast.org/stownpodcast

Is it possible that the update messed up support in podcasts in non-English (or special chars) languages? Or could I be doing something else wrong?

Many thanks in advance for any assistance!

[thebrady]

I'm having the same problem on 6.1.1. An example podcast is the NY Times "The Daily"

http://feeds.podtrac.com/zKq6WZZLTlbM

If anything is needed to troubleshoot further, I'd be happy to help. My primarily listening to podcasts is through Sonos by way of Subsonic & hope this can be fixed sooner than later

[rollcage]

I have exact same issue on 6.1.1 with:
http://downloads.hurricanes.nhl.com/pod ... escast.xml

Error:
org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException: Error on line 1: Content is not allowed in prolog.

I'm guessing Subsonic can't handle the itunes tags in the XML.

[rollcage]

Is there a defined mechanism for getting this issue on the bugfix radar? Thanks!

[btrbver2]

I started having this problem too after the latest update. I've had issues in the past with HTTPS RSS URLs, but this seems new.

License Subsonic Premium
Version 6.1.1 (build fc853b) – May 31, 2017
Server jetty-6.1.x, java 1.8.0_141, HSQLDB, Windows Server 2016 (148.4 MB / 179.0 MB)

Anyone have any experience giving Subsonic more RAM? I tried upping it and the server wouldn't start.

[btrbver2]

Bump?

[dbighead77]

I believe this is being caused by strange characters in XML.
I have not set up a test case yet to see if this properly accounts for the working and failing podcasts listed though.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/397 ... characters

[Jargs]

I believe this is being caused by strange characters in XML.

I just came across this same issue. After a little research, it appears to affect RSS feeds that are UTF-8 encoded. Apparently in UTF-8 XML files, there are 3 bytes of data before the opening <?xml tag, which causes problems for some XML parsers.

I checked the podcast RSS feed that was failing for me, and the 3 bytes were there.

It looks like it can be solved in Subsonic's code by just checking for the 3 bytes and removing them before sending the XML through the parser...
http://mark.koli.ch/resolving-orgxmlsax ... -in-prolog

Hopefully Sindre sees this and can fix it in one of the next updates.

[Jägs]

I'm also having problems with a specific podcast:

https://bedtime.fm/storytime/feed

I suspect for the same UTF-8 reason.