Custom placement of podcast enclosure

OK, I’ve been trying to make stab at getting the player to show the author info. I tried updated to the Podcasting version 2.0b5 but then the player wasn’t showing up on my index page. Now I went back to the older version but I updated the flash player and now what I get is a working player but it will only show “Track #1” for the info. Any ideas how to change the Track info?

Thanks.

Peter,

That information on the player is being grabbed from the ID3 information in the MP3 file. You have to change the MP3 to alter the player track information.

For the link, just do either

itpc://www.howpositiveareyou.com/feed/podcast/

or

itpc://www.howpositiveareyou.com/?feed=podcast

Thanks again. Now the player is working great and I got the track info working as well with the ID3 information. One more thing if you could please help. The URLs for the RSS feed and the itpc feed do not work still. Why can’t it find the podcasts in the specified directory? Is there something I need to add in the post?

Ah, you have to attach files to posts. Podcasting does not automatically scan directories for files. Just go into your post which relates to that episode, and paste the URL of the file in the Podcasting window found on the Write / Manage screen.

Hmmmm, I’m not sure I understand. I thought that’s what I did already to get the player to play my podcast for a post. I entered the URL of the MP3 file in the Podcasting section of the Write / Manage screen and hit Add. Then my podcast shows up in the post with the player. Am I missing something? It seems like my URL is there already but it still doesn’t find it.

Forgive for asking what may be a newbie question. I would like to edit the color, size and title of the enclosure/player on the blog entry. I could live with editing just the title. Is there a place to make these changes? Thanks!

I love the plug-in by the way.

Hmm, I see. Yes, you are doing that correctly. It looks like you may have some feed validation errors. Go to the Podcasting options page and try replacing the & in this line with the word ‘and’:

A weekly podcast of surprising news and views on HIV & AIDS

If that works, I’ll have a fix out which corrects the issue.

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patrickcella, look in Podcasting’s options page. If your on the 1.6x version there are explicit fields to change the colors. The 2.x beta version have a single field with instructions on how to make that and many other changes.

OK, removed the & but still not working. Any other ideas?

It appears to be working for me. I clicked the links I gave you earlier and both of them were added to my iTunes podcast list and the latest episode downloaded. Perhaps you’re seeing a cached version?

OK, I think it must have been cached before. Now it’s working. Great! Thanks so much for the help.

I hate to keep going on but there’s one more thing, I promise the last. I uploaded an image for the podcast art and put the URL in under the Podcast Art URL setting but it doesn’t who up in iTunes.

The Podcast Art only shows up in your iTunes directory listing and may take up to 72 hours to display after adding the artwork. The album artwork window when playing a podcast relies on the artwork to be embedded in the actual MP3/AAC/etc file and does not look at the feed for that information.

OK, makes sense. Seems like all the ID3 info is suddenly not showing up. Just back to “track #1”. Do I need to update something?

Did you change anything that made this occur?

No, didn’t do anything to MP3’s that were already uploaded. I made some changes in the Podcasting settings but now they are back to what they were before. I tried uploading some new test MP3s with the ID3 info but still it always says “Track #1” for the info.

I realized just a bit ago that I did change something. I updated the player to a new one from the audio plug-in. So I put back the original player but still don’t get the ID3 info back.