[Triage] Youtube Music (Podcasts) Doesn't See Episodes

[2IkHLHB]

Describe the bug
After adding podcasts to Youtube Music via RSS, YTM adds the podcasts and shows the image cover, but when opening said podcasts, it shows no episodes.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to https://music.youtube.com/
2. Click on Library
3. Choose Podcasts
4. Choose Add podcast
5. Choose Add RSS feed
6. Input Pinchflat's RSS feed for the Podcast being added
7. Click Add
8. After a few seconds or minutes, podcast is added. Click added podcast
9. Where it should display episodes, the page is blank

Expected behavior
It should be able to display available episodes.

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Additional context

I have used several RSS feeds on different podcast clients and it works as it should.

Add any other context about the problem here.

[kieraneglin]

Hey there - thanks for the report (:

I've dug a little deeper and YouTube Music is completely at fault here - it breaks if you have m4a files in your podcast feed. m4a is a completely valid audio filetype and I've tested dozens of other podcast services and none have had any issue.

That said, there is a workaround I can recommend to get you up and running! Please read this in full and once you've done so, here's an example setup that worked for me:

1. Make a media profile dedicated exclusively to podcasts (you may have already done this)
2. Following the guide, create an appropriately named file in <config directory>/extras/yt-dlp-configs/
   • If we say the media profile's ID is 5, the filepath would be <config directory>/extras/yt-dlp-configs/media-profile-5-config.txt
3. In that newly created file, put this: --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0
4. Delete the source you had previously added from both Pinchflat and YouTube Music. On Pinchflat you want to select the option that deletes the files as well
5. Re-download that source using the media profile we've been working with then add this "new" source to YouTube Music

Let me know how that goes! Once you've set this up, any source that uses your podcast-specific media profile should Just Work™ with YouTube Music

[kieraneglin]

I've done some more testing here and I'm happy with the solution above! Again, the ideal would be for Google to fix their app but what can ya' do.

I'm going to close this issue but please re-open it if it's still not working!

[2IkHLHB]

Your suggested approach works great. Problem solved, thanks.