Podpress won’t play audio

  • OK so I’m having a few issues with podpress. The first is that the audio files won’t play in the posts but I can download them off of itunes and listen to them that way. The second problem is that there are only 9 out of 15 episodes available to download at the itunes store. I was thinking about switching over to podcasting, but I don’t see a way to import the posts I made with podpress into podcasting. Does anyone have any idea what I should do?

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  • “OK so I’m having a few issues with podpress. The first is that the audio files won’t play in the posts but I can download them off of itunes and listen to them that way.”
    I’m having the same problem.

    Here’s what I found on the audio not playing. If it’s an m4a format then:
    5. To get WordPress to recognize m4a and m4b files as podcasts, you need to make sure that your web server is configured to serve them with the right content-type. Do this by adding the following directives to your Apache configuration file or .htaccess file:

    AddType audio/x-m4a .m4a
    AddType audio/x-m4b .m4b

    PodPress player does not support the m4b format. If you’re using m4b as your media file extension, you may want to upgrade to PowerPress.

    PowerPress podcasting plugin can either process and include PodPress created episodes reading the existing PodPress episode data in the database or can import your PodPress episodes into the WordPress ‘enclosure’ format. The WordPress ‘enclosure’ format is what WordPress natively uses to store podcast episodes. Essentially, you can give PowerPress a try and if you don’t like it revert back to PodPress. But if you do like it, import all the episodes.

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