Recently upgraded to pass. Would love to integrate podcasts into Plex to have all my media in one place, but a number of podcasts failed to import from .opml export from my current app, and fail to install when manually added. Looks like this needs some work from Plex. A meaningful error message, at least, would be useful.
Having the same issue, and reported via the above link. With so many people reporting the same thing, one would think that we could at least get some type of response.
it would be nice to get an official response on this thread (unless I missed it somewhere). Plexamp is my primary music app on my phone and the podcast support seemed great at first, but of all the podcasts I want to listen to, I’ve only been able to successfully add ONE!
Not sure if it would help, but if you provide logs per Plex’s recommendations to isolate the process when adding one of the podcasts, they might be able to help more specifically. I’ve noticed much more reactionary help when people provide logs.
Not sure if it would help, but if you provide logs per Plex’s recommendations to isolate the process when adding one of the podcasts, they might be able to help more specifically. I’ve noticed much more reactionary help when people provide logs.
You bring up a valid point about the logs, but I think that there’s not much to see on the consumer’s end. I went ahead & attempted to grab pertinent info from the logs (while trying user onenor’s feed example) and found:
I messed with the URL after swapping in my actual TOKEN, and even tried removing all parameters but X-Plex-Token (doing so gives 401 Unauthorized), and always got 404. So, I think the problem is that the podcasts.provider.plex.tv service doesn’t know anything about a podcast with a GUID of 60996dc93226e60038e35df1. I speculate that this podcasts provider API has to index any podcasts that it doesn’t already know about, but, if that’s the case, it’d be nice to have it tell us “we’ll add it once we’ve found artwork & an episode guide” or something like that.
Furthermore, I’m in agreement with lots of other users here – we’ve had plenty of “me too” examples where it doesn’t work, but what we haven’t had is someone from Plex acknowledge the issue, and give any indication that it’s being worked on or a possible workaround.
this is right on the nose. The log doesn’t really provide much of any information on why this is happening, but there’s been enough folks saying “I’m having this issue too” that I would have expected some kind of response to this thread at this point.
Looking at the log, am I correct in assuming that when you give Plex a URL for the podcast you want to add, it actually goes through Plex’s servers to pull that podcast information down, rather than just connecting directly to the URLs in the RSS feed? Seems like the point of self-hosted would be to not have to rely on outside servers to get your content.
