461429 - Integration needed between Firefox and Rhythmbox for RSS feeds

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Matěj Cepl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008100707 Fedora/3.0.2-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008100707 Fedora/3.0.2-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.2

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.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Christopher Beland]

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.

Comment 2

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Moving this bug to the RSS component.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.