Shoutcast subscription does not work with '?'

[leel]

The following podcast "NPR Fresh Air" does not work in Winamp 5.33

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13

This is a valid podcast address that works in iTunes. It refuses to work in Winamp. When I add this URL as a shoutcast subscription and then click "Edit" Winamp displays the following URL:

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13ugh 폚ጔ

You can see the junk at the end of the URL. Trying to type the URL in manually does not resolve the error and Winamp still doesn't parse the URL correctly.

[DJ Egg]

Strange. I can't reproduce the problem. It works fine here.

Is it definitely Nullsoft SC Wire v1.08 (ml_wire)?
(as listed in: Winamp > Prefs > Plugins > Media Library)

What's your Windows OS?

Could you provide us with a List of Plugins, and a copy of your feeds.xml file (%appdata%\winamp\plugins\ml folder).

Zip them up together, if the total size is less than 100kb then you can attach the zip here, otherwise, upload to sendspace.com or stashbox.org and post the link here.

[deject]

I am also having this problem. Right now the PC that does this is running Windows Vista Business 64-bit with Service Pack 1, and all updates pushed through Windows Update installed.

It seems that any NPR podcast link does this as I've tried it with Car Talk and Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Car Talk
WWDTM

Both of those get the extra gibberish characters at the end on my Vista computer but on both of my XP SP3 machines it works just fine.

Here is my list of plug-ins: http://www.apathymachine.com/my_plugin_list.txt
My ml_wire.dll is version 1.25.

Thanks!

I couldn't find that xml file you mentioned though.

[mrdans]

I get this same error consistently. For example, adding this RSS

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510208 to the podcast directory yields this
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510208$09 resulting in a podcast error.

Editing the RSS URL in Winamp is not allowed (so you wonder what's the point of the edit button) so I can't get rid of the superfluous characters that are automatically/randomly added by winamp.

Is there an XML file that I can go into to edit the URL? I'm using Vista business and winamp 5.551.

Thanks

[DrO]

you'll need to edit feeds.xml (typically stored in %AppData%\Winamp\Plugins\ml - enter that into window's run command and that should open the correct folder).

then look for the <winamp:url> blocks and edit the url in that. there is a fix but it still needs to be applied in ml_wire (the plugin that implements the feature) for the next full update of the player which resolves the issue with the url not being terminated correctly.

-daz

[deject]

Originally posted by DrO
you'll need to edit feeds.xml (typically stored in %AppData%\Winamp\Plugins\ml - enter that into window's run command and that should open the correct folder).

then look for the <winamp:url> blocks and edit the url in that. there is a fix but it still needs to be applied in ml_wire (the plugin that implements the feature) for the next full update of the player which resolves the issue with the url not being terminated correctly.

-daz

Thanks! That worked perfectly.