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2019-07-21
source: ./1563724049-Raiplay,-please,-let-me-download-your-podcasts.html

So, someone suggested that I listen to a recording of a radio broadcast because it's about a topic that was very hot a couple of months ago, and offers a new perspective.

Let's go download this recording, then: the broadcaster offers an on-demand service where you can download past broadcasts. Let's do this, then. I'm going to talk about... technical difficulties.

So, let's go to the broadcast page! Note: I'm using a different one, but the problems were the same.

As usual, the website does not load without some Javascript, so let's enable some domains: raiplay, iubenda, gstatic...

So, they want me to disable my adblocker... ok, let's do this then.

Uhm, let's look if I forgot to enable something...

No, it seems just fine. Ok, /cares, we can skip it by clicking somewhere in the page. We should be able to download a recording (called podcast here), are we?

Wrong. The download does not start. The website fails, trying to parse "some" XML data. What kind of XML data is trying to parse? We'll never know.

However, you may have noticed that we got the podcast URL: creativemedia3..., type: mp3. If we open it in a new tab... it works just fine. Yay!

I tried with these trackers enabled: it still does not work. No need for images this time.

Rai, please, I am a taxpayer that wants to listen to your broadcasts. Let me download them without having to use developer tools. Please.