# Include the Podcast name in the download error message

**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/include-the-podcast-name-in-the-download-error-message/2268
**Category:** Feature request
**Created:** [August 11, 2022, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/include-the-podcast-name-in-the-download-error-message/2268 "2022-08-11T09:59:43Z")
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### Author: ![ghast](https://forum.antennapod.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@ghast](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ghast)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2022, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/include-the-podcast-name-in-the-download-error-message/2268/1 "2022-08-11T09:59:43Z")

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**App version** : 2.6.1 F-Droid  
**Problem you may be having, or feature you want** :  
Some podcasts cause errors and they just give you the url in the message.  
If that is a generic platform that hosts multiple podcasts with just random alphanumerical strings, this is not useful to match them

**Suggested solution** :  
Within AP a podcast has a name, which the user can change if she likes to.  
Print this name alongside the url that failed.

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### Author: ![ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/bytehamster/32/4041_2.png) [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2022, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/include-the-podcast-name-in-the-download-error-message/2268/2 "2022-08-11T10:42:41Z")

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At least on my device, running AntennaPod 2.6, it already does that. Does it not show titles for all errors or just some?

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### Author: ![keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/keunes/32/61_2.png) [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/include-the-podcast-name-in-the-download-error-message/2268/3 "2022-08-11T19:48:02Z")

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Hi @ghast,

What do you mean with ‘the message’? Are you referring to the (Android) notification, the entry in the downloads log, or the details pop-up when tapping on a log entry? (For me, too, the first two do display the podcast name.)

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### Author: ![terminalmage](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/terminalmage/32/1364_2.png) [@terminalmage](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/terminalmage)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/include-the-podcast-name-in-the-download-error-message/2268/4 "2022-08-11T20:12:14Z")

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I think OP means the name of the feed, not the title of the episode.

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### Author: ![keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/keunes/32/61_2.png) [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/include-the-podcast-name-in-the-download-error-message/2268/5 "2022-08-11T20:23:36Z")

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With ‘podcast name’ I refer to the name of the feed, so we were talking about the same thing 🙂 Episode is indeed different from the Podcast, and the Episode title is not shown.

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### Author: ![terminalmage](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/terminalmage/32/1364_2.png) [@terminalmage](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/terminalmage)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/include-the-podcast-name-in-the-download-error-message/2268/6 "2022-08-11T20:28:53Z")

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Pardon, I misread and thought this was about feed updates, not download errors for episodes. Sorry for any additional confusion I caused.

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### Author: ![ghast](https://forum.antennapod.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@ghast](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ghast)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/include-the-podcast-name-in-the-download-error-message/2268/7 "2022-10-04T19:11:39Z")

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![Notification_de.danoeh.antennapod](https://forum.antennapod.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/67aa2a31a4b6be4e577eeddcd36eef8129f37592.jpeg)  
This message is only partially useful.  
It names the url , but not the Podcasts Name.  
Yes the whole redirect chain is a bit messy for all ard audiothek links but that is not what i came here to talk about
