[Plugin: Podcasting] MP3s not saved in Podcast RSS Feed

vicki.farmer, the .htaccess file only takes effect when you initially add a file; it’s not checked constantly.

The error your seeing is because no mime type has been reported. This may have happened because you didn’t add it when doing so manually (probably), or if your server is reporting the types incorrectly. Add the MIME on the second line of the custom field as audio/mpeg. That should correct that error message and display the podcast in your podcast feed.

Okay, I hate to be thick, but what “second line of the custom field” am I supposed to be specifying as audio/mpeg? Do you mean for me to specify a new format in the podcasting settings, then select it in the podcasting field on the post-writing page? Or am I supposed to enter *another* purely custom field with some name? (Other than “enclosure”?)

The server is set up to recognize .mp3s, and like I said, the podcasts *play* just fine. (In the past, whenever I’ve had some multimedia file that the server didn’t have a MIME type for, they typically wouldn’t play if I entered the URL into a browser window, but these do.)

I’m having the *exact* same problem that other people in this thread have reported — when I enter the podcast URL and other information into the “podcasting” fields in the write (or manage) window, and then save or publish the post, the information about the enclosure does not appear to be saved; it just disappears, and the podcasting RSS feed is empty. There’s no old, non-functioning enclosure on the post for me to delete and try again; there’s simply no enclosure listed at all. Am I missing something I’m supposed to be doing beyond entering the information in the podcasting fields (file URL, format, keywords, author, length, etc.), then send the information to the editor, then save/publish the post?

Sorry to be confusing. At the time I wrote that post it looked like you had incorrectly manually entered the file, causing a problem. Regardless, you should not have to manually enter a file in the custom field section each time, so disregard that, and the MIME stuff, as clearly the MIME is correct on your server.

So, to make sure we are on the same page, you are running WordPress 2.6.2, with Podcasting 2.0 beta 6, which has the supposed fix to the file disappearing issue, correct?

If so, help me understand what is going wrong. Let’s say you have a new post, you go to enter in a podcast file and click add. What happens here? Does the podcast details section come up correctly with the file information entered?

From there, when you save the post and reload the page (which happens on a save), does the podcast information remain there? If not, if you scroll down to the custom fields section, is there anything in there?

Does it make a difference if you enter any addition details before the save?

WP2.6.2???I don’t think so myblog:salier.com.cn

WP2.6.2???I don’t think so myblog:salier.com.cn

I’m confused, what’s your problem or question? You just come out of nowhere and say that.

@cavemonkey50 — (Sorry it’s taking so long between my responses; I’m working on this in my copious spare time between projects. *g*)

Okay, I just did an experimental post from scratch. Here’s what I did:

1. Wrote a brief post, gave it the appropriate category for my podcasts (“That Weather Show”).

2. Added the complete URL for my .mp3 file (https://www.norman.noaa.gov/assets/thatweathershow/009_Met_careers.mp3) into the Podcasting “File URL” field. Left the format set at “Default Format”. Clicked “Add” button.

3. Entered the Author name and Length information. Clicked “Send to Editor”.

4. Published the post.

The post showed up normally; the podcast plays in the player, no problem. However, it does *not* show up in the podcast rss feed (which is empty). This is the URL that I’m using to look for the podcast feed: https://www.norman.noaa.gov/?feed=podcast

When I go to the window to edit the published post, the podcasting section is blank, empty, unused, as if there are no enclosures at all.

Here’s a question that just occurred to me: does it matter that the slug for my “That Weather Show” category is “podcast”?

Thanks for the feedback. Technically, that slug shouldn’t matter, but I’m going to do some testing to see if that could be the issue.

If I can’t find anything with the slug, would you mind emailing me at [email protected]? I want to send you a test version that will have some debug output so we can narrow this problem down.

I just tested and the category should have no effect on the file disappearing.

@cavemonkey50 — Email sent. Thanks!

Hello, I seem to have having the same trouble that everyone else has been having.

I’m uploading my mp3 and linking it on the posts fine. The flash player comes up and just for kicks I put in an MP3 link too.

https://ilapodcast.com/

But it’s not coming up on the podcast feed.

https://ilapodcast.com/?feed=podcast

I’m using WordPress version 2.6.1 and 2.0b6 of the Podcasting plugin. Sorry if I’m being thick, can’t quite work out what’s going wrong! Any ideas?

At the core of RSS, two enclosures won’t work in one post. Look at your code and make sure you only have the one. You might delete them an re-add them. If all else fails, you don’t need ANY type of player. WordPress will do all the work for you. This is how I do it:
https://www.creativexpert.com | https://www.bionicgenius.com

Good luck!

I know I don’t need a player, it just looks pretty ??

I’ve only got one enclosure. I’m adding the file URL to the podcasting bit of the post editor, saving it and then it disappears (but the code remains in the main bit). Like I say, sounds a lot like what was happening with the others, but the updates don’t seem to be helping with me.

Oh, and I’ve done the custom field trick and I’m getting the same error message as vicki.farmer, but at least the text is coming up in the RSS feed now.

No media files associated with it though.

ilikeandy, do you have a category called podcast as well? If so, that is the source of your issue, and I am looking at possible ways to resolve it.

Nope, it’s not that, the category’s called nonsense.