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Fails to connect to My Podcasts

Jack Vinson — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:33:14 GMT

So, I just started asking FeedDemon to grab podcasts with FeedStation. It's very intrusive!

First problem: It keeps telling me it can't talk to "My Podcasts." I don't see such a folder in NewsGator. And FeedDemon doesn't seem to be having any trouble with the synchronization activity. Also, note the error below in the Error log of FeedStation.

Second problem: Related to #1 - All downloads fail. "Failed - click to restart" and I have no idea which ones are failing, as there is no useful information provided in the list.

Third problem: It is incredibly intrusive. Just do your thing. Stop popping up to tell me your are working.

Fourth problem: Can I tell FeedDemon / FeedStation to just download anything new - rather than everything available in the podcast? (when I set automatically "download enclosures")

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FeedStation
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Error downloading https://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/BroadcastingRSS.aspx: Failed (http 401)
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OK
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Feature Request: Execute command/program after download

markcs — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:09:40 GMT

Hi!

Would it be possible to add an option to execute a user defined command/program after download, similar to the option to 'After downloading a podcast copy it to' option...

I would like 'After downloading a podcast execute this program' option...

Would that be an option?

duplicate downloads

tnorm5828 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:39:49 GMT

In the past few weeks Feedstation version 2.6.0.21 has started double downloading podcasts but without any consistency that I can follow and in addition it is saving that second download in a shortened folder name. So for example I have it set to automatically grab the files from http://mahalodaily.blip.tv/rss/itunes

This is one of the feeds it seems to have a fairly regular problem. So it saves the normal downloads into a folder named "Mahalo Daily apple feed". The duplicate download is saved into a folder named "Mahalo".

The duplicate download is always saved into a shortened version of the original feed download folder.

I reduced the amount of history to save, but that doesn't help.

Is it possible that the history file got munged up? I have had a few recent problems with unexpected reboots and I'm thinking maybe the history file or something got messed up.

I'm using FeedDemon/FeedStation on a Window 2000 Pro (all security updates to present). I know it's an old OS, but works well and I don't see a reason FeedStation would suddenly have this problem.

Any thoughts?

Feature Request: Bittorrent?

lucascorso — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:29:06 GMT

I think this has been mentioned a few years back, but I'd like to put it forth again. I'd like to see bittorrent folded into feedstation at some point. I have found the experience that feedstation gives is an enhancement to the Feeddemon experience and I would very much like to see bittorrent add to the feature list. I feel that it would not only benefit the end user but pod and Vid casters as well. Giving readers a client that helps in giving them a more seamless experience to the content available to them. And the Pod and Vid casters an effective distribution tool that would help them with rising costs of bandwidth.

Fails to download, but which one?

Jack Vinson — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:57:18 GMT

FeedStation is having trouble getting downloads, and I don't understand why. If someone can help troubleshoot, I would appreciate it. I haven't seen a pattern.

But it is hard to discern a pattern when I cannot determine what feed failed. Normally, when a podcast is downloading, I can get the full url by selecting the item in question. However, when the podcast fails and I "click here to try again." I lose all information. Note in the image below I've selected a "queued" item. But the status bar at the bottom -- nothing. This happens for all failed podcasts.

Help?

Jack

NBC Podcasts

Dave Holland — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:18:08 GMT

Feedstation (through feeddemon) will not download the nbc nightly news podcasts. It initially adds it to the download list, but then the file name disappears and it status eventually is set to failed to download.

I know there were problems in the past with this feed, any ideas what is the problem now?

FeedStation continually pops open in Windows

b.wab — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:14:44 GMT

Anyone have this issue? I've had FeedDemon for well over a year and recently just upgraded to 2.6. Now, no matter what I do FeedStation pops up (the FeedStationUI opens) and it's driving me nuts!

I've checked several options and nothing seems to help. I select "Minimize to Tray" and it opens again (with nothing new).

Help~!

Feature request: show some ID3 tag attributes

fncll — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:41:24 GMT

It would be great if, once a file is downloaded in FeedStation, the list could display a few of the ID3 tags as columns, namely title/artist/album...

Prefetch Items For Offline Reading

hagadol — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:05:20 GMT

When you hit this command what actually gets downloaded time /date wise ?

How far back in time do articles get downloaded ?

Do you just get unread items ?

Can you Prefetch individual items ? Or would that the same as adding to 'My Clippings ?

How do you adjust Prefetch ?

Does Newsgator Podcast Download Stop Auto Download In FeedDemon ?

hagadol — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:35:53 GMT

If I download a new Podcast on my laptop, using Newsgator, does that stop FeedDemon downloading it, if the later is automatically set to download new podcasts ? I keep FeedDemon switiched off on my main PC, opening it a few times a day.

Does FeedDemon Automatically Load FeedStation ?

hagadol — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:05:53 GMT

Does FeedDemon Automatically Load FeedStation ?

If you have the 'Automatically Download My Podcasts' ticked in FeedStation, will FeedDemon automatically start up FeedStation or do you have to turn FeedStation on manually for the process to happen ?

Newsgator - Feed Station

hagadol — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:46:29 GMT

Can Newsgator Online automatically download newly arrived Podcasts to FeddStation or does this just happen with FeedDemon ?

Deleting Podcasts

hagadol — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:14:45 GMT

Which is the best way to delete downloaded Podcasts ? Can you just go into the folder in Windows Explorer and just delete them without it messing up the history or other tracking ?

The Basics - how to subscribe to a podcast

beac — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:39:46 GMT

I've installed feedstation and have read the other forum postings with regards to feedstation but it appears that I am still missing something. I am not able to figure out how to get a podcast from newsgator online to feedstation. There is mention of a green button on different posts in which you can use to download a podcast but I am not sure how to get the magic link. Is it just certain podcasts that are possible?

I have tried this with Hanselminutes, dot net rocks and several other podcasts that i just picked from the search within newsgator online.

Can someone provide me with some additional information and if I am trying this with the wrong blogs, can you post a blog in which does work so that i can truly test this?

Thanks,
Beac

Using Feedstation with NewsGator Online

charlesroper — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:57 GMT

The way NewsGator Online and Feedstation used to work was that you could "send" podcasts to FeedStation when you were away from home. [url=http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/ann_feedstation.html]See here[/url].

I've just had need of this feature and can't see it anywhere in the new NewsGator online UI. Is it still possible to do this?

Error synching new .Net Rocks! podcast to WMP

flcdrg — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:06:02 GMT

If I add the .NET Rocks! podcast feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/netRocksWmadirect to FeedStation (and there is no existing .NET Rocks! playlist in WMP), then I get these errors in the error log:

Error synching http://perseus.franklins.net/dotnetrocks_0308_aaron_skonnard.wma: WMP playlist error

If I manually add the playlist ".NET Rocks!" to WMP, then right-click on one of the failed items in FeedStation and choose "Resync to media device", then it does work.

I think the problem is that the COM apis for WMP don't like you trying to create a playlist with funny characters in the name, even though you can do it through directly in the WMP UI.

You might need to sanitize the playlist name before you try to create it.

-dave

FeedStation Confusion

Brian Hodges — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:06:31 GMT

Love the Outlook interface, been a user for a couple of years. However I'm having some difficulty setting up feedstation the way I'd like. Here is what I'm trying to do.

I'd like to set outlook up to automatically download attachments, but make them visible to media player. (hence the need for feedstation)

I have two problems that I can't seem to figure,

First, I have to turn off the automatic attachment download option for all feeds. Unfortunately, this means I no longer can access the podcasts through outlook. Or else I get double copies

Second, when I set up feedstation, it downloads podcasts fine but makes a sub-directory for each podcast in a different directory. While this is a minor problem, it is a bit annoying to always have to clean up all the folders in MyFeedStation directory. I'd usually delete the audio files in media player but I'm still left with the empty directory.

Is this the way it's suppose to work or is there a configuration option(s) that I'm missing?

Thanks in advance,

Translate FeedStatoin?

Jedi — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:09:50 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to know if there is any plan leting people to translate FeedStation into other languages? Since FeedDemon did that well....

Best,
/Jedi/

How do I use mapped/network drives?

eldad — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:10:04 GMT

For some reason Feedstation won't save podcasts to mapped or network drives. Is there anything I can do about this?

Controlling Bandwidth

pd — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:32:01 GMT

Is it possible to control the amount of bandwidth used by FeedStation?
When it is downloading, it sucks up all my available bandwidth and I can't do anything else online. I would love to be able to cap it so I can still do other things online while the podcasts trickle in.
(I currently have it configured to do 2 simultaneous downloads on a 1.5 Mb/sec DSL line.)
Thanks.
Peter

Error synching xxx: wmp playlist error

edddy — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:48:50 GMT

I tried deleting the Playlist and recreating it, not to avail.
It used to work in my machine, but suddenly stop working (maybe with one 2.5 beta, don't know exactly)

Now running 2.5 RTM, Windows Vista and WMP 11

any ideas?

FeedStation is re-downloading the same podcasts to my second PC

cwaters — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:27:22 GMT

Can someone help me better understand how FeedStation works? I have the application installed on my laptop and on my desktop. I queued up about 20 podcasts for download on my laptop. After about half of these were downloaded, I powered the laptop off. On my desktop PC, I launched FeedStation. Almost immediately, it began downloading not only the remaining podcasts, but also the ones that had already been downloaded to my laptop. Is this the expected behavior?

In my case, I don't mind that all podcasts are downloaded to both devices. I already use Microsoft's Internet-based FolderShare product to keep certain directories in sync between my laptop and my desktop PC. If I use FolderShare to sync the ..\My FeedStation Podcasts directories, will FeedStation skip the files that get sync'd? Or will it still try to download them?

feedstation and i-tunes don't like each other

Kujo — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:23:54 GMT

I went into the feeddemon / feedstation help files and I can get the podcast from newsgator, add it to my podcasts, download it into feedstation but the file never quite makes it into i-tunes I have tried all of your help files and everything else I can think of.

any suggestions

Can I Trick FeedDemon/FeedStation into Downloading Podcasts Again?

clc — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:39:09 GMT

I've just accidentally deleted several days of podcasts and would like to trick FeedDemon into thinking today is actually several days ago to force it to redownload everything for the last few days. Is there any way to do this?

I'm guessing the fields to change are some of the date fields in the Feeds/*.RSS or Subscriptions.opml files, but I don't want to guess. Can anyone give me some pointers?

Thanks,

Chris

Podcast to iPod

S1nF0ny — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:28:52 GMT

I have FeedStation set to copy podcasts to a folder after downloading. It's set to I:\ (my iPod). This works fine but how do I find and listen to the podcast? It doesn't show up in the Podcast category under Music.

How to Synchronizing/downloading podcasts?

arzelpg — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:31:38 GMT

I am a new user of Feedstation. I don't know how to retrieve or download the podcasts that I have selected on the internet site www.newsgator.com.

I have tried to lunch the function "Check My Podcasts Now" from the menu Options but I can only read in the lower bar "no new items in my podcasts".

Could someone highlight the procedure to get Feedstation to retrieve all or some of the podcasts that have been suscribed to. These podcasts are listed on the panel "My Feeds" from the Newsgator manager.

Thank you,

Losing History in Feedstation 2.1.0.8

lucascorso — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:21:54 GMT

I have noticed a glitch that when ever I exit feedstation in this version that my history his wiped. In the option menu it is set to retain a history of 99 items, but for some reason it is not retaining anything between seasions.

Many downloads now called "redirect.mp3"

bcombee — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:05:26 GMT

Using Feedstation 2.0.0.25, I've noticed that many of the downloaded files from my feeds have started to be named "redirect.mp3" instead of the original MP3 name. These are ones where the feeds are sending me through podtrac. A good example feed is

http://leoville.tv/podcasts/itn.xml

The enclosure tag in the feed looks like

<enclosure url="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://aolradio.podcast.aol.com/insidethenet/ITN-033.mp3" length="18482920" type="audio/mpeg"/>

It should be downloaded as ITN-033.mp3, but instead, it's showing up as redirect.mp3. If FeedStation downloads the next one, it either overwrites it or put it in another folder.

Never Ending Proxy Authentication Requests

ByronJones305 — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:45:33 GMT

At my office, we use a Bluecoat Proxy server, and I have FeedDemon/FeedStation configured to use that proxy.

I am able to download podcasts just fine, but every time it downloads a file, FeedStation pops up an authentication window. It already has my information; I only have to press Enter to have it continue. The problem is that this happens dozens or more times per day.

Any way to fix this?

Scheduled Downloads fail after about 10% is downloaded

BassRat — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:01:27 GMT

This may be a newbie issue but...
Tried setting up Feedstation to do automatic scheduled downloads podcasts from a local talk radio station.
The station does require registration (its free but does involve logging on with UN/PW)
If scheduled downloads is off, things download right away as expect. Am using firefox and have logged in with it.
If scheduled is on (even if download now is selected), the download starts quickly and then stops and finally aborts at about the 12% mark.
Is this an issue or operatior error? Will scheduled feeds fail if authentication is required? Is there a way to specify UN/PW for a feed requiring authentication?

--Greg

Copy to folder option..

Andrew Grant — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:50:35 GMT

I might be missing it somewhere, but is there a way to have all enclosures downloaded into the same folder without creating the feed-based heirarchy?

If I use the "Copy To Folder" option then as the name suggests the original is left in place, but then I need to manually cleanup the originals.

(FWIW I'm trying to get everything into a folder that I can sync with either my PSP or iPod, the trouble being the former only supports one level of directories).

Missing Cover Art for Podcasts in WMP10/PMC

Steve Hartzog — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:29:03 GMT

I've been playing with FeedStation lately trying to break my iTunes habit with my switch back to PCs. I know most of the problems that I have experienced are probably due to the buggy WMP10.

However, you may be able to assist me. Most of my podcast feeds have an image (ie. like the album cover art for music) associated that never shows up in the properties of the audio or video files in WMP10. As a result my Toshiba gigabeat-s shows a "default" icon instead of the image that the feed shows.

My question: Could this be a FeedStation issue? Or is this a property of the file, and not normally handled by the feed aggregator?

constant 3% cpu usage

Duane Williams — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:52:34 GMT

sorry, posted to wrong forum

"Failed to Connect to My Podcasts"

ronrussell — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:30:53 GMT

This error message constantly appears, but I am unable to find any reference to it or "My Podcasts" in the Feed Station help. What is it trying to tell me?

Feedstation not being recognized as installed

Richboth — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:25:35 GMT

I had to do a reinstall due to a hard disk crash. After installing FeedDemon, I tried to open Feedstation and was told it wasn't loaded. I downloaded it and installed it.

At this time however, FD does not recognize that FS is installed on the system. I did try to reboot after the installations, but still the same issues. I do not have either program installed in thier default directories. I prefer them in another location.

I did a search through the registries but failed to locate anything that did said FS was not in the right directory.

Any clues on how I can make FD recognize FS is installed?

No Updates from NGO in several hours?

DavidR — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:17:25 GMT

I have not received any updates in my sync'ed feeds in at least three hours. This was working fine this morning. Is NGO having problems again?

FD2.0 stopped polling NGO for updates

DavidR — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:27:18 GMT

Yesterday, around noon, FD2.0 stopped syncing with NGO. I have three folders, and they are all set up to sync with NGO. That has been working just fine since FD2.0 was released.

But I installed the IE7beta2, and now I'm not getting any updates. I can manually force FD to sync, and that works fine. But it's not polling.

Everything in Tools, Options, Synchronization looks fine.

Can anybody help?

Does FeedStation work with NGES?

cwood — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:08:00 GMT

Does FeedStation work with NGES? And where's the NGES forum?

-c

User Agent string?

Kenster999 — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:25:42 GMT

Hi.

Can someone please tell me the user-agent string used by all of your company's products (NewsGator Online, NewsGator Inbox, FeedDemon, etc)?

I'm trying to compile a list so that my log analysis program can properly identify your user agents.

Hopefully they're already documented somewhere?

Thanks,

Ken

Headline to mail message script

Adam Rice — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:22:58 GMT

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