New Version of the iTunes Podcast Plugin

Not that this is a MySQL or phpMyAdmin tutorial, but I’m new to this as well, and also have experienced the itunes:duration tag bug.

How do I delete these using phpMyAdmin? Where are they located?

OOPS…found them, wp_postmeta
<jack>

I also just noticed that my create date on my podcasts, as read in iTunes, is 1/1/1970. So somehow the plugin has changed the date in the feed.

I *did* just import old posts from Blogger…so maybe there’s a glitch there?

Also…do the mp3 files have to be in the same *directory* as WordPress, or just on the same server (as the instructions say)? I have them in a directory on the same server, called “podcasts”. But my new WordPress blog is a sub-domain of my main site. The files are in https://www.hanamas.com/podcasts/ . The new blog is at https://getjacked.hanamas.com .
<jack>

The plugin changing the date is a new one. I suspect the Blogger to WordPress transition on that one. I run the audio files in the same directory as my WordPress install. You can specify in the plugin, where your audio file are on the same server and WP-iPodCatter should be able to automatically detect the duration.

Garrick, looks like things have been quiet on this topic, whichis strange since I am running into the same issues, but have seen a real solution to it. when I run the feed through FeedValidator.com, I keep getting:

<b>Warning</b>: return_itunes_dur() [<a href='function.return-itunes-dur'>function.return-itunes-dur</a>]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/getid3.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/web/snl80344:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php) in <b>/usr/home/web/snl80344/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-ipodcatter.php</b> on line <b>372</b><br />

The getid3 directory is where it should be and I have re-uploaded it a couple of times and changed rights and tried everything else I can think of, but to no avail. I simply can’t get by this point.

The only iTunes tag that appears in the post is the category tag. The duration also isn’t being found. I have tried changing the URL for the podcast directory, and even tried placing a podcast at every level on the site, but nothing. It seems somehow that the getid3.php cannot be opened.

Also strange. In the files I downloaded, there was also a set of directories called _MacOS/wp-content/plugins/getid3/ but empty, and no explanation. I t is the v1 that I downloaded.

Any help would be appreciated. I have exactly the same problem on two sites.

Sorry, I meant to say “I have not seen a real solution to it”

kstar,

A couple of questions:
1- What’s the URL of your site?
2- Are all the values spec’d for the iTunes tag info?

thanks.

The website is: https://www.thefolksinger.com/wordpress/

The “podcast” is just a little test file to see if things are working (which they aren’t). So I am checking the following URL in FeedValidator.com:

https://www.thefolksinger.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&category_name=Podcasts

Local path to Audio files is: /usr/home/web/snl80344/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Podcast/ which should be right.

All other options are filled in except for “comments feed” and I don’t have “cover images” yet.

If I deactivate the plugin and revert to the original “..rss2.php” file, the podcast comes up fine (though with no iTunes tags of course)

what is the status of the itunes:duration fields bug cwachs mentions above? i would like to reconsider using this plugin, but when i was testing it before i ended up w/ hundreds of blank fields.

does this happen only when *not* using the getid function? in my case, my audio was not stored locally. now however that has changed but i hesitate to muck up my database without knowing more about this bug. thanks

I’m not seeing this exact issue listed anywhere else, so I’ll try posting it here. I’m using 1.0 of the plugin, and when I check it using FeedValidator.com, I get the following error:

Undefined item element: itunes:category

And I can’t understand why it would give me that error – the default category is “Music”, as set in the main settings of the plugin, and it seems to be up to Apple’s own spec. The feed can be checked here –

https://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https://mixtapeshow.net/category/episodes/feed/#l93

Maybe this is an issue between feedvalidator.com and apple, and not my own feed?

As an aside, I know that the “Object” tag (I’m using an audio player plugin) is also bringing up errors – does anyone know if this is going to break my feed for iTunes usage?

Thanks in advance.

hi,
i’ve been also having the empty “itunes:duration” tag problem, and at some point it reached 3500 in number… if it’s too many for some of you to delete manually, here’s the MySQL command to delete them all:

DELETE from wp_postmeta where meta_key = 'itunes:duration';

it could be used from within the command line mysql or within phpMyAdmin.
beside this quick fix, i was wondering if there is any way to “disable” only the “duration” tag from getid3 thingy…

For all of you having the duplicate itunes:duration problem – could you comment out line 379 and let me know if you still have the problem.

Thanks.

Those of you having problem with the automatic duration detection, could you comment out lines 368-380 (the $getID3 stuff) and let me know if you’re able to
insert the duration manually from within the WordPress admin ‘Write’ tab?

Thanks.

I have a imac and an ipod but inever found out what podcasts do..hehehe. And i dont get it why has wordpress an itunes plugin?

Fair enough question – WP-iPodcatter adds the iTunes-specific tags and info to the WordPress RSS 2.0 feed.

You said “Those of you having problem with the automatic duration detection, could you comment out lines 368-380 (the $getID3 stuff)”

If you will tell me which file and the exact text to delete, I will try it… I’m not a programmer, but hack a little here and there. I’m having the same issues with the duration tag and have Version: 1.0 that I downloaded yesterday.