Yawn. Another week later, another year later, and adding another BUMP UP. Fix PODCASTS.
K, bye.
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Throwing another log on the fire.
I get the same issue when adding Sam Harris’ private RSS feed.
Would love to move ALL of my media into Plex 
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heyyyyy i am on the plex forums now! cool!
i came here to find more info about why my OPML file with ~40 podcasts only put 17 in the “my podcasts”, with another 3-4 appearing in the list of recent episodes but clicking them causes an error?, only to find this thread.
guess i’m sticking with podcast addict, which is a shame, it’s a great app but i’d love to be able to switch from mobile to desktop like i can with all of my other media. please, plex, please fix podcasts!
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Chiming in, The Always Sunny Podcast gets the standard
Something went wrong
An unexpected error occurred.
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I’ve run into this problem with two podcasts, one new (I think) and one which was working and now isn’t. My experience matches everyone else here.
Many podcasts still work for me, for now. But at least some new ones can’t be added and some old ones are disappearing. Bugs happen, for sure, but this issue looks to be almost a year old. I’m concerned about the decay of podcasts as a Plex feature.
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Same issue Here, importing OMPL file or tryign to add by RSS only works for some podcasts and not others. I will probably just use Podcast Addict like I was on android as I can’t add all my podcasts to Plex.
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Hey, I also want to join this group of of “masochists” 
Many podcast URLs also won’t work for me, for example:
https://diewochentester.podigee.io/feed/mp3
Please fix this Plex!
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Same here. I’ts annoying that after I paid for plex I’m not able to add any podcast.
Sample rss podcast not working:
https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:467843475/sounds.rss
I tried many podcasts, and none of them works.
In plex log I see nothing related to podcast error, just “Something went wrong” on screen.
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Hi there,
Now it is nearly one year, since the Plex-Team is investigating this issue? Unbelievable. May we help you in any kind?
Worthless to say, that I am another Plex-user fiddling around with podcasts which is frustrating.
A little hint from me (experienced software developer): Sometimes it helps drastically to implement qualified error messages. Dropping a message like “Oh something went wrong” sounds like a Teenager tried to implement the first lines of code in life.
Best regards
Markus
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Is Plex open source? I realize this is a long shot, but could we try to work together to submit a PR?
Is the relevant software part of the plex-media-player repo?
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Same, just adding to the list of Plex Pass people noting that the whole mess seems pretty broken.
Please either fix it, drop it, or just give us a podcast “library type” so we can have this locally.
Also maybe this is just the web client, but there’s not even a way to search - just categories and infinite scrolling, totally bizarre way to find podcasts when you already know the name.
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I’m seeing this exact same error whenever I try to add a podcast by URL. Also some podcasts I want to listen to aren’t coming up in search.
Like others I’m super disappointed that Plex seems to have added this feature, gotten all our hopes up, and is now ignoring it while it breaks for MANY (if not most) of us.
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Still frustrated this is not getting any love from Plex higher ups such as @elan ??
I wonder if people can share OMPL files for podcasts that imported correctly so we can compare with those that don’t and see if we can narrow it down for them?
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I wonder if people can share OMPL files for podcasts that imported correctly so we can compare with those that don’t and see if we can narrow it down for them?
I certainly understand your sentiment, and your willingness to help, just to get the problem solved. But, when I pay for a service, I feel like I shouldn’t have to jump through too many hoops to use the service – including all the published features. If my internet provider goes dark for a couple of days, I can file a grievance, and they refund a portion of my payment. I guess I don’t understand why Plex isn’t doing that – they added a feature to their service, they sold subscriptions that included that feature, and now that feature doesn’t work. Seems like Plex should be refunding part of some peoples’ monthly payment.
As for me, I bought a Lifetime subscription (prior to Podcasts being added), so I don’t think it’s right for me to try and recoup any costs. For now, I’m using greg to download ALL my podcasts (funny, it has no issue with any podcast I throw at it!) and then I’m working on getting Plex to show them & track progress. It’s a hacky workaround, but it’s better than “Something went wrong.”
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Throwing my hat in the ring here too. Random podcast RSS feeds just give an error. Here is one example.
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One trick/hack I found and which may be part of the issue (within Plex’s code).
If I add .rss to the end of the feed it works. So my example of
https://feeds.fireside.fm/selfhosted/rss
Works if I use
https://feeds.fireside.fm/selfhosted/rss.rss
Maybe it will work for others out there
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If that’s the case, why wouldn’t that have been added as part of the parsing code. Are they just not aware of this hack that you have? Seriously, I cannot believe it’s now been a year and it’s hampered the use of podcasts in Plex.
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did not work for me
original link
https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/episodes/feed
modified
https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/episodes/feed.rss
or
https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/episodes/feed/.rss
or
https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/episodes/feed/rss.rss
none worked
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I just spent 90 mins trying to figure out what the problem with these feeds are. I’ll share my work just to help anyone else tempted to waste their time 
I created a feed on my web server of a known working and a known broken podcast - confirmed they were both working and broken respectively and set to work doing a diff, changing the broken file until it worked, and changing the working file until it broke.
Things I’ve learnt: Plex first interrogates the itunes:new-feed-url and/or atom:link href and then ignores the rest of the file. It makes a second request to the URL found in those tags (figuring this out took most of the 90 minutes!).
Where I gave up: Taking a working feed, hosting an identical file locally, changing the above mentioned URLs to also point to my web server = something went wrong.
My conclusion: it’s got nothing to do with the file/url being invalid - if it’s not in the centralised Plex library of “known podcasts” it’s not working.
Outstanding question: how does it get into the “known podcasts” library?
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Their stupid manual back-end process that they got going on in their offices. It’s been like this for a few years and then, we are supposed to be able to add our own feeds but then that mechanism hasn’t worked properly for the past year at least. The details of importing on the Support Pages is outdated.
I’ve been using Pocket Casts for my podcasts and using Chronicle for my Audiobooks from the Plex Server because these services within the Plex ecosystem just don’t work as intended at launch anymore.
Excerpt from:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/podcasts-overview/
I run a Podcast; how can I get it added to your catalog?
Our catalog of podcasts is sourced in many ways, including employee additions and third-party sources. It’s growing rapidly daily and you can expect that nearly all of your favorites will be available soon. We hope to add a more formal podcast submission process in the future, but one isn’t currently available, sorry.
Currently, the best way to contribute getting new sources into the catalog is to simply add them yourself via the app (the Add Podcast by URL button). We’ll continue to evaluate the m
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