From a456865ec0a61d074e4032b42eb6fd8dfd541a37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: advplyr <advplyr@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:10:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue with episode downloads without streams, fallback to
 regular dl on ffprobe fail

---
 server/managers/PodcastManager.js | 39 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
 server/utils/ffmpegHelpers.js     | 10 ++++----
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server/managers/PodcastManager.js b/server/managers/PodcastManager.js
index a959ba9a4..bdf6fc764 100644
--- a/server/managers/PodcastManager.js
+++ b/server/managers/PodcastManager.js
@@ -127,10 +127,20 @@ class PodcastManager {
     })
     let success = !!ffmpegDownloadResponse?.success
 
-    // If failed due to ffmpeg error, retry without tagging
+    if (success) {
+      // Attempt to ffprobe and add podcast episode audio file
+      success = await this.scanAddPodcastEpisodeAudioFile()
+      if (!success) {
+        Logger.error(`[PodcastManager] Failed to scan and add podcast episode audio file - removing file`)
+        await fs.remove(this.currentDownload.targetPath)
+      }
+    }
+
+    // If failed due to ffmpeg or ffprobe error, retry without tagging
     // e.g. RSS feed may have incorrect file extension and file type
     // See https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/3837
-    if (!success && ffmpegDownloadResponse?.isFfmpegError) {
+    // e.g. Ffmpeg may be download the file without streams causing the ffprobe to fail
+    if (!success && !ffmpegDownloadResponse?.isRequestError) {
       Logger.info(`[PodcastManager] Retrying episode download without tagging`)
       // Download episode only
       success = await downloadFile(this.currentDownload.url, this.currentDownload.targetPath)
@@ -139,23 +149,20 @@ class PodcastManager {
           Logger.error(`[PodcastManager] Podcast Episode download failed`, error)
           return false
         })
+
+      if (success) {
+        success = await this.scanAddPodcastEpisodeAudioFile()
+        if (!success) {
+          Logger.error(`[PodcastManager] Failed to scan and add podcast episode audio file - removing file`)
+          await fs.remove(this.currentDownload.targetPath)
+        }
+      }
     }
 
     if (success) {
-      success = await this.scanAddPodcastEpisodeAudioFile()
-      if (!success) {
-        await fs.remove(this.currentDownload.targetPath)
-        this.currentDownload.setFinished(false)
-        const taskFailedString = {
-          text: 'Failed',
-          key: 'MessageTaskFailed'
-        }
-        task.setFailed(taskFailedString)
-      } else {
-        Logger.info(`[PodcastManager] Successfully downloaded podcast episode "${this.currentDownload.episodeTitle}"`)
-        this.currentDownload.setFinished(true)
-        task.setFinished()
-      }
+      Logger.info(`[PodcastManager] Successfully downloaded podcast episode "${this.currentDownload.episodeTitle}"`)
+      this.currentDownload.setFinished(true)
+      task.setFinished()
     } else {
       const taskFailedString = {
         text: 'Failed',
diff --git a/server/utils/ffmpegHelpers.js b/server/utils/ffmpegHelpers.js
index 0c4da5f95..80832cc77 100644
--- a/server/utils/ffmpegHelpers.js
+++ b/server/utils/ffmpegHelpers.js
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ module.exports.resizeImage = resizeImage
 /**
  *
  * @param {import('../objects/PodcastEpisodeDownload')} podcastEpisodeDownload
- * @returns {Promise<{success: boolean, isFfmpegError?: boolean}>}
+ * @returns {Promise<{success: boolean, isRequestError?: boolean}>}
  */
 module.exports.downloadPodcastEpisode = (podcastEpisodeDownload) => {
   return new Promise(async (resolve) => {
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ module.exports.downloadPodcastEpisode = (podcastEpisodeDownload) => {
           method: 'GET',
           responseType: 'stream',
           headers: {
-            'Accept': '*/*',
+            Accept: '*/*',
             'User-Agent': userAgent
           },
           timeout: global.PodcastDownloadTimeout
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ module.exports.downloadPodcastEpisode = (podcastEpisodeDownload) => {
 
     if (!response) {
       return resolve({
-        success: false
+        success: false,
+        isRequestError: true
       })
     }
 
@@ -204,8 +205,7 @@ module.exports.downloadPodcastEpisode = (podcastEpisodeDownload) => {
         Logger.error(`Full stderr dump for episode url "${podcastEpisodeDownload.url}": ${stderrLines.join('\n')}`)
       }
       resolve({
-        success: false,
-        isFfmpegError: true
+        success: false
       })
     })
     ffmpeg.on('progress', (progress) => {