Can′t get MP3 to play

  • Dear friends of Podcasting,

    I am trying to set up Podlove for hours and don′t get my MP3 file to play.
    I followed the video instructions, I set up all the assets, I uploaded my MP3 in a custom named folder ‘podcasts’ in directory path ‘/home/MYINSTALL/public_html/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/’. I then set up my media path in the options as

    ‘https://domainname.cl/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/’

    This is what happens: I can reach the MP3 on the server, it plays just well. Also, the file is well received in the Podcast template, it′s given green light being recognized, I can even calculate its length there by clicking the button, and if I click the proven (bluish) link in the podcast template (just like in the video tutorial!) it all works fine! I can reach the file and play it in the browser.

    But nevertheless, on the published podcasts I always get this when pressing PLAY: “Es konnten keine Audio Dateien vom Server geladen werden. Entweder du hast gerade keine Verbindung zum Internet oder die Dateien sind nicht auf dem Server verfügbar.”

    I tried without the extra Player installed – as I understood it should work out of the box and automatically insert a functioning player, but the above mentioned failure stays persistent no matter what.

    When I try with the other extra player plugin installed, the exact same error occurs.

    I am guessing it has to do with my media path…maybe I am missing something?

    Also, when trying to download the file in the player by the Icon/ Button it gives me a funny link like: ‘https://domainname.cl/podlove/file/1/s/webplayer/c/episode/nameofmy.mp3’.

    I see no connection by any means between this link structure and the media path I set up. Might this be the problem? And how would I solve it!

    Also, in the Debug in the plugin settings it seems that my file is trying to be grabbed with a second ‘.mp3’ at the end. ‘https://mydomain.cl/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/nameofmy.mp3.mp3’ I am trying to find out where this could happen in Podlove, as the original file dows not have this problem in its title!

    Thanks for any insights, I really love the plugin, the appearance and the player interface. Best thing out there! Just cannot get it to work!

    Saludos!

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Honkytonky.
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  • Plugin Author Eric Teubert

    (@eteubert)

    Hi,

    the “funny link” is used for download tracking / analytics and does not correspond to any file structure. You can disable tracking to see if that’s the issue in your setup under “Expert Settings > Tracking” and choose “no tracking”.

    Hope that helps!

    Thread Starter Honkytonky

    (@honkytonky)

    Dear Eric,

    thanks a lot and for getting back to me!
    I tried with and without Curling activated but unfortunately the player gets stuck with “Es konnten keine Audio Dateien vom Server geladen werden. Entweder du hast gerade keine Verbindung zum Internet oder die Dateien sind nicht auf dem Server verfügbar.”

    So far, I also ruled out my caching plugin by totally deactivating it. I also did several reinstalls of Podlove with and without the extra player. I tried different folders on my WordPress install, I triple checked the file which in deed is available in browser! I also gave rights 777 to the file in order rto check whether its an access rights problem but I can′t get any file to play.

    In the pod template everything is fine, green light and all files recognized.
    I am still not giving in, I have posted this problem in your other forum! I will also try your German forum, I guess it is something very basic but I get stuck :-)!

    Saludos!

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