Some podcasts don't allow pause. Why?

On some of the podcasts (appears to be the ones that don't give duration), the listener cannot pause while listening. Why is this? Is there anything that can be done about it?

I can't say I've noticed the "will not pause" issue, but I have noticed the ones that don't give a time in the iTunes Store. I suggest you contact the Podcast's producers and tell them of the issue you have. It's their Podcast, they create it, control it and fill in all the boxes and so on that are needed. However, they may not realise there is a problem for the listener.
What Podcast programmes are you having an problem with? Maybe I have episodes I can test.
Phil

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Hello, I've got an Ipod 80G and I have downloaded some podcasts. I can hear them fine and I saw in the display list, but I don´t know why I cannot see the anymore in the last days, I think the podcast are there but they don´t appear in the display. Somebody knows why I cannot see all my podcast?
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If someone speak spanish, I write it in spanish:
Hola, tengo un Ipod classic de 80GB, me he suscrito a algunos podcast y los he pasado a mi Ipod, pero no se cual sea la causa de que ya no veo algunos de ellos desde hace unos dias. Lo que recuerdo es solo haber conectado mi Ipod a la PC y descargar otros podcast. Los podcast que ya tenía no los he borrado de mi Ipod, en la sección de Podcast en Itunes aparecen esos podcast. he tratado de pasarlos nuevamente al Ipod, pero aparentemente hace la transferecia pero no lo veo en mi Ipod. No se si con esto, este duplicandolos.
¿Alguna sugerencia?
Gracias

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1 Audio stream: AAC
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http://i.imgur.com/vy33H9y.png
http://i.imgur.com/g4P5iM1.png
http://i.imgur.com/zDOIwrC.png
i test your podcast episode 36 then episode 33 and 31 ! bad news my friend no chapters and no pictures only one main pic. but when i test your podcast in downcast app in my iphone wooo i see text i see your pic i see chapters i see everything. so that mean it's working everywhere like mine except iphone and ipad app and now we come to theory of garage band things tags in m4a files. you write that you have done all this in podcast maker not garage band. This is now real mistery to me !
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http://i.imgur.com/vy33H9y.png
http://i.imgur.com/g4P5iM1.png
http://i.imgur.com/zDOIwrC.png
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[solved] systemd service files don't allow quotes

Why is it not possible to use quotes in
ExecStart=
section of systemd service files?
For example, I can't use service file like this
[Unit]
Description=Pacman mirrorlist update
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=wget -O /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup "https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=DE&country=NL&country=PL&protocol=http&ip_version=4" && cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && reflector --verbose -l 50 -p http --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
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Feb 26 08:48:36 nanoBox systemd[1]: reflector.service lacks both ExecStart= and ExecStop= setting. Refusing.
I can remove quotes and then the service will run, but the URL parsed to the command will be cut in half, ie it will stop on the first "&" sign and only DE mirrors will be probed.
Is there some way around it other than creating a separate executable file and calling it from the service? I don't want to multiply unnecessary files if there's way around it.
Last edited by Lockheed (2015-02-26 09:37:25)

Lockheed wrote:
Raynman wrote:"from command line" is you feeding a (command) string to a shell. Your assumption is that systemd will treat whatever you put in ExecStart exactly the same as your shell would.
Not "is" but "was". Disappearance of that assumption was precisely the reason of starting this thread.
I had to read this a few times, but I think you mean it as follows. You assumed you could copy from the shell to the service file and it would work the same way. Then you got an error (about the abolute path) so that assumption "disappeared". So far so good. But you didn't exactly figure out what was different, you formed a new assumption and based your thread on that:
"systemd service files don't allow quotes" (title)
"Why is it not possible to use quotes in ExecStart= section of systemd service files"
"because systemd will not run it because of presence of quotes:"
Like frank604 says, quotes were never the issue (in fact, they are one of the few things with special meaning for both the shell and systemd), yet you still seem to think they were:
Lockheed wrote wrote:The actual wrong assumption on my part was that this command would run without quotes as service. It does not.
It is a shame you only quote the first part of my last reply and ignore the questions in the second part. You did almost the same thing with my reply before that and I suspect you also didn't read the man page I mentioned the first time. You basically give me the impression that you think you have it all figured out (even though you come here looking for help) and my follow-up questions aren't worth your time. That usually makes me "move along" pretty quickly, but I'm trying one last time, because even though "The service now works", I'd like to see that you actually understand why it didn't work before.
The only thing you really answered was "Changing paths to absolute made no difference.", but that shouldn't be, so when you mentioned empirical evidence, I basically repeated the question asking for some of this evidence (as in exact error messages for one or more modified ExecStart lines).
When I take your service file and give wget an absolute path, systemd happily executes wget, but then wget complains because it gets "&&" and "cp" and "--save" etc. as arguments. Those errors are what I see in systemctl status/journal, no longer anything about an absolute path. This is because "&&" has no special meaning. You can use semicolons (";") to separate commands instead (explained in the man page section on command lines) or multiple ExecStart lines like frank604 used (which is cleaner IMO).

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