Podcasting and audio file size issues

  • Any tips or tricks to get around the size limit for audio files? I have an Itunes podcast linked to my wordpress.net website (https://thedumbingofamerica.net), but I’ve got some problems.
    First, I’m trying to upload a 30 minute interview that’s 16MB. I’ve had to split it into four parts because of the size limits for audio upload files. Can I get around this?

    Second, once I posted a four-part interview, (https://thedumbingofamerica.net/2009/07/04/peter-hook-the-interview)Podcasting only sent the first part to ITunes.

    Frankly, I don’t think people will want to download 4- 8 minute segments from ITunes, so I’d like to find away to increase the file size.

    Any suggestion?

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  • The max upload size is a PHP setting.

    https://simplercomputing.net/2009/02/13/fix-php-max-upload-size-wordpress/

    This is something that may have been alerted to if you were using Blubrry PowerPress, but your audio file is in “mono” format which is not compatible with flash based web media players. I would recommend encoding your audio in “joint stereo”, it will give you the same size file as in mono and will play back well in flash based players.

    Ignore my last post, I accidentally replied to the wrong thread.

    On this topic, there are security implications increasing your PHP upload limit, post max size and max execution size. PHP really isn’t designed for handling large file uploads. The way PHP works, the entire file has to be uploaded before the script executes. None of the security checks in the WordPress PHP code execute until the file has been uploaded to the server. As an end result, a malicious user could cause a ‘denial of service’ attack to your server simply by overwhelming it with large uploads.

    My advice would be to use FTP to upload your files to your server.

    I am having the same issue as the start of this thread. I am successfully uploading 3-5 minute MP3s every day but not the 60MB/60 minute podcast.

    Not tech enough to follow your advice on changing PHP to FTP. Do you have the time to explain how? Thanks…

    lisastar: you don”t change php to anything. what amandato was recommending was to use ftp (file transer protocol) to upload your files rather than using the wp media uploader. with ftp, you can upload much much larger files to any location you have permission to upload. the max size with your uploads with ftp is dependent upon your webhost and maybe your isp. but you should be able to upload some pretty big files. keep in mind bandwidth. when people are downloading or listening to your mp3 files, it’s chewing up bandwidth on the server.

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