RSS failure through Podpress

  • After using Podpress flawlessly since January, I was hit with a major problem last night. After posting my latest podcast on my site https://www.lifeinabungalo.com through WordPress, the listen now file appeared, but the podcast has not appeared on iTunes. So I checked Podcast Pickle and some of the other sites I’m registered at, and not only did this podcast not appear, but all the other podcasts are gone too.

    I have no idea what went wrong and what I can do to fix it. I rely on podpress for everything podcast related.

    Here’s my RSS feed: https://lifeinabungalo.com/?feed=rss2&cat=2

    So I e-mailed the podcast pickle guy and he wrote back to me with this, but I have no idea how to fix the problem.

    “The problem with your feed is that you’re missing the enclosure tags. between each set of item tags there needs to be an enclosure tag that holds the information regarding the actual file for each episode. the tag is formatted like so:

    <enclosure url=”url of the file” length=”size of the file in bytes” type=”the type associated with the file. see below for details” />

    For a mp3 audio file, the type attribute should be “audio/mpeg”
    For a mov video file, the type attribute should be “video/quicktime”
    For a wmv video file, the type attribute should be “video/x-ms-wmv”
    For a m4v video file, the type attribute should be “video/m4v”

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Is podpress even enabled? I’m not seeing any of the things that I would expect to see in a podpress feed in your feed.

    By the way, this won’t answer your question, but another trip-up I had with Podpress and my feed not showing my podcast….

    I had previously enclosed an .m3u file (this was the live webcast stream, before I made it a podcast). Actually I just linked to the mp3 in the body of the post when I first published the post, and WP automatically made it an enclosure.

    Later I used Podpress to enclose an mp3.

    But the mp3 did not appear in my RSS2 feed, because it only supports 1 enclosure per post, and I didn’t realize there was already an m3u enclosed on that post.

    Solution was simply to go back into the post > custom fields > delete m3u enclosure.

    Thread Starter liabungalo

    (@liabungalo)

    I still can’t figure it out. The mp3 is still playing on my site through the build in stream, but my RSS is not working at all.

    https://lifeinabungalo.com/2006/10/02/electric-frankenstein-interview-radio-bungalo-28/

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