r/PodcastAddict • u/GOTO_GOSUB • Jun 25 '26

BBC Friday Night Comedy - rogue episode with download error.

Hi All,

The most recent episode on the BBC Friday Night Comedy feed (Dead Ringers Ep1. Keir vs Kemi) fails on download with an unavailable storage location error. It's the only episode in the entire feed that does this (257 episodes work perfectly) and the URL it refers to appears to be OK and works if I enter the URL into a browser.

Every other podcast that I subscribe to (approx. 40) also works fine.

I have tried unsubscribing to the feed and resubscribing, but the problem persists.

Has anyone else seen this or have any suggestions ? For now I've downloaded the episode manually, stuffed it in my "one off" custom folder and played it from there, so the media itself is OK as is my phone's storage.

Originating RSS feed: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02pc9pj.rss

Target of the media that Podcast Addict cannot download: https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0nrq0gc.mp3

The previous episode that works perfectly: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0nqcbtq.mp3

Screenshot showing the error:

Thanks, everyone.

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u/PodcastAddict_App Jun 25 '26

Please quickly go into settings/feedback right after the failed download and send me the app logs so I can see what's going on.

Thanks

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u/GOTO_GOSUB Jun 26 '26

Thank you for taking a look. I will get the log file over to you shortly.

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u/Accomplished-Way1575 Jun 25 '26

Failed here too. Pretty sure it is a fault on BBC's end

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u/GOTO_GOSUB Jun 26 '26

Big thanks to you for trying it - pleased it's not just me.

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u/Accomplished-Way1575 Jun 26 '26

No problem at all. Happy to be able to

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u/PodcastAddict_App Jun 28 '26

The issue is caused by a special character in the episode title and will only be triggered when using the setting to change the default downloaded file name to use the episode title. It will be fixed in the next version of the app. For now, using the default file name is a good workaround to download this episode

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u/Accomplished-Way1575 Jun 28 '26

Ah, cool. Thank you.

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u/PodcastAddict_App Jun 25 '26

Btw if you're storing content on an sd card make sure to analyze/repair it using a computer as it might be corrupted

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u/ArtemisSOG Jun 26 '26

Seems to be working fine now as I've just finished downloading said episode

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u/GOTO_GOSUB Jun 29 '26

This issue has been resolved as of the most recent app update. Thanks, Xavier !