Metadata, etc. appearing twice

Hello @pr-sib!

Could you please try to go to Podcasting -> Settings -> Player -> Media player locations and uncheck Full content?

Does it help?

If not, could you please describe what editor do you use ( Gutenberg, Elementor, or shortcodes ), and do you embed the player manually, or allow it to appear automatically?

Best regards,
Sergiy, development team.

Hi @zahardoc

Unchecking that setting did not make a difference. In fact it removed it entirely from the custom post.

In answer to your questions:

I am using a custom theme with Classic Editor.

When the player appears on the podcast episode page (custom post type), it appears correctly, with the metadata only appearing once. Here, it is being allowed to appear automatically. Here is an example of the podcast episode page, where it is correctly shown:

https://www.scoringnotes.com/podcast/back-to-the-future-of-music-notation-on-computers/

However, when I embed the player into another page or post, using the shortcode, the metadata and subscribe links appear twice. Here is an example of that:

https://www.scoringnotes.com/opinion/a-brief-history-of-music-notation-on-computers/

I believe I discovered the issue, although it is a change from before.

For embedded players, I was using the “details” parameter, for example:

[podcast_episode episode=”25174″ content=”player,details”]

But now it seems that the details are included in the player, so adding them is redundant. So, this appears correctly:

[podcast_episode episode=”25174″ content=”player”]

This is relatively new behavior, although I cannot pinpoint when it first started to appear, and whether it is related to a SSP update or a WordPress update.

Please let me know if this is expected, and if I should remove the “details” parameter from all of my currently existing embedded players, and not use it going forward, or if you expect to revert to the previous behavior.

Thank you.

Hello @pr-sib,

Yes, we slightly changed the behavior of player meta fields settings and made them more transparent. Now by default shortcode player is being shown with the same settings as auto-embedded players, so the details parameter is redundant.

Anyway, thank you for describing this issue, it definitely should not show the meta fields twice, even if you add the details parameter. We’ll fix it in the next plugin release.

Best regards,
Sergiy.

@zahardoc Thank you for confirming the issue, and in advance for issuing a fix in the next update.

@pr-sib

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