Feed not validating (length & type attribute issue)

  • Resolved BloggingGuru

    (@bloggingguru)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    After searching I didn’t see anything specifically on how to correct something like this effectively.

    On WordPress 4.1.1 with the Latest version of the plugin 1.8.9 when submitting to iTunes I received an error that stated:

    “podcast cover art must be at least 1400 x 1400 pixel jpg or png in rgb color space and hosted on a sever that allows HTTP head request”

    Now I know what you are thinking…but I do have a 1400×1400 .jpg image (rgb) used for the cover art as well as a server that allows HTTP head request.

    To investigate further I attempted to validated the podcast feed url and received:

    line 42, column 0: length attribute of enclosure must be a positive integer
    line 42, column 0: type attribute of enclosure must be a valid MIME type

    I am not 100% sure if this would cause the iTunes error but I would like to see if I can fix this. Any insight or help?

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  • Thread Starter BloggingGuru

    (@bloggingguru)

    When digging deeper it seems that the length and type attributes in the feed url are not being added. As in they show up as

    .mp3" length="" type=""/>

    for the enclosure url. Is there any known reason why these values would be left blank even though I added the length manually to the podcast post?

    Plugin Contributor Hugh Lashbrooke

    (@hlashbrooke)

    Could you please send me the link to your podcast feed? That will help me find the issue here.

    The length and type attributes should never be empty actually – if nothing can be found for them programmatically, then a default length of 1 and type of audio/mpeg is used. Those defaults are set there to cater for this specific issue.

    Have you customised your RSS feed at all? Whether via filters or by overriding the template file? If so that could be part of the issue.

    Thread Starter BloggingGuru

    (@bloggingguru)

    Thank for responding Hugh.

    Here is the feed.

    https://mswrightsway.com/feed/podcast

    I am inclined to say that it is possible some of the template functions I am using could be causing this but just to be sure I wanted to ask the developer himself ??

    Plugin Contributor Hugh Lashbrooke

    (@hlashbrooke)

    I see this as the enclosure tag in your feed:

    <enclosure url="https://mswrightsway.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mwwpodcast1.mp3" length="3003784" type="audio/mpeg"/>

    That looks 100% correct to me, so I’m guessing you already worked this out on your side?

    If your feed image is still causing a problem with iTunes I would recommend following it up with them because the image in your feed is perfect and shouldn’t cause any issues. SSP is sending it out correctly, so there is no issue from the plugin regarding that.

    Cheers,
    Hugh

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