[Stitcher] Poor Metadata Extraction

[wertercatt]

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powerkitten@blaze-pc:~$ youtube-dl -v https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/brashgames/brashcast/e/48566743
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/brashgames/brashcast/e/48566743']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.03.18
[debug] Python version 3.6.7 (CPython) - Linux-4.20.0-15.1-liquorix-amd64-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.10-cosmic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2-2, ffprobe 4.0.2-2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Stitcher] 48566743: Downloading webpage
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://www.brashgames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Brashcast_Episode_58.mp3'
[download] Destination: Brashcast - Episode 58 – DC is La Liga and Marvel is the Premiership-48566743.mp3
[download] 100% of 102.28MiB in 00:38
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<end of log>

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

youtube-dl doesn't provide proper metadata for Stitcher urls. It doesn't include the release date or the show that uploaded it. This is a problem for the archival script "tubeup" as it causes archived podcast episodes to not be properly credited. See https://archive.org/details/Stitcher-48566742 for an example of how it gets messed up. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/brashgames/brashcast/e/48566742 has the metadata needed to properly credit them, but that metadata doesn't make it to info.json resulting in the script getting confused.

[preekaur]

Is this issue still open? I would love to take a shot at it :)

[wertercatt]

@preekaur hasn't been fixed to my knowledge, so feel free.