Error Downloading HTTPS Podcasts

[5000volts]

I get an error when trying to download podcasts from:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/feed/podcast/

The problem seems to be that the mp3 media files are distributed using HTTPS.  The error message on the download is
"The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on send"

Using HTTPS on published RSS feeds is a relatively rare situation, but presumably will happen more often in the future as more internet traffic is sent via HTTPS.

[Steven]

i just tried now and its working fine for me. Perhaps its just a temporary problem

[5000volts]

I don't think it is a temporary problem since I can download with some programs and not others.  I am running XP SP3 plus all updates to end-of-support.  Could that be the problem?

[Steven]

if you are not already using v2.5, you should update from the downloads page.
Other than that i wont be able to help any further

[5000volts]

Since the problem was specific to certain podcast downloads that use HTTPS to deliver the MP3, and the problem was happening on more than one computer, I figured it was not due to a local problem, or configuration error.  I was having even more trouble with the feed https://mises.org/feed/rss.xml.  I was getting a connection error on the feed.

What I have determined is that these feeds are using AES-256 encryption, and do not offer any 128 bit ciphers.  Since I am running Windows XP, there are no 256 bit ciphers available in the Windows network stack.  I was confused because the links would open in Firefox, but Firefox uses it's own encryption rather than depending on Windows.  When I would try the links in Internet Explorer 8, the connection would fail because there were no common ciphers available, but IE did not provide a helpful error message that explained this.

I don't imagine that there is an easy way to fix this in MusicBee, so it will be a growing issue for the XP holdouts as more feeds go to 256 bit only encryption, but I wanted to get the problem documented here in case it will help another user figure out what the problem is.

My solution will be to switch to Linux, hope you can make a MusicBee for Linux some day.