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