I am getting the podcast bug too (won't play, then hangs at the list of podcasts)

Here's the very end of the verbose output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "edje.c_edje_object.pxi", line 42, in edje.c_edje.signal_cb
File "/screen.py", line 71, in cb
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/efl_utils/callbacks.py", line 14, in c
end_callback(finished)
File "/window.py", line 443, in inform_end
File "plugins/canola-core/main/controller.py", line 328, in cb
File "plugins/canola-core/multitask/task/controller.py", line 228, in end
File "/controller.py", line 75, in unref
File "plugins/canola-core/media_base/ui/controller.py", line 527, in delete
File "plugins/canola-core/media_base/ui/controller.py", line 503, in _disconn
AttributeError: 'PlayerController' object has no attribute 'bus'
Killed

I can send more if you need it.