Podpress xspf Widget showing nothing.

  • There’s not much about this, but I implemented Podpress recently, my podcasts are publishing fine, but I’m not seeing anything show up in the Widget when I add it to the sidebar.

    Is there anything else I need to be doing? I thought that the widget would just …. work.

    Danie

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  • Danie,

    the widget works usually. The only thing you should configure are the width and height values. At least the player should be visible – even if you have mp3 podcast files. (The player is only capable of playing mp3 files.)

    Is there really nothing showing up? What is with the header of the widget? Which is your current podPress version?

    Or is the player visible but does not show any episodes?

    What is in the playlist? You can control this by downloading the playlist manually and looking into the file with a text editor.
    Open the URL of the playlist.xspf feed in your browser.
    The URL of that feed looks like “www.example.com/?feed=playlist.xspf” or “www.example.com/feed/playlist.xspf”.
    Does it contain tracks like in this example? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Shareable_Playlist_Format#Example_of_an_XSPF_1.0_Playlist

    Regards,
    Tim

    Thread Starter drezac

    (@drezac)

    Here’s the link to my site. You can see the Widget has nothing in it. The width should not be a big deal.

    https://edreach.us/

    I burned my podcast feed using Feedburner, so my feed gets routed to feedburner.

    See?
    https://edreach.us/?feed=playlist.xspf

    I don’t know if there is a way to make an xspf out of a feedburner feed.

    Daniel

    Daniel,

    You can see the Widget

    No, I can’t see the Widget (at least the Widget title should be visible). Where is it?

    I burned my podcast feed using Feedburner, so my feed gets routed to feedburner.

    That is okay for the usual Podcast Feed (“www.example.com/?feed=podcast”). But if you want to use the XSPF player widget it is essential that the XSPF Feed URL is not redirect to the standard Podcast Feed. Because the XSPF Feed has a special XML format and is not a RSS Feed.

    Don’t redirect https://edreach.us/?feed=playlist.xspf to Feedbruner.

    Regards,
    Tim

    Thread Starter drezac

    (@drezac)

    Thanks-

    I suspected that feedburner was the case, if that is in fact true.

    I can’t however undo that, as Feedburner is awesome and far outweighs the benefit of having a player on my site.

    Can you think of any other ideas that might make this work?

    daniel

    Daniel,

    do I understand it right that the XSPF player appears in the sidebar if you add the XSPF widget? And is it true that the player does not contain episodes?

    It is fine that you route the /?feed=podcast Feed and the other Feeds through Feedburner. But the Feedburner plugin or whatever you are using should not reroute the XSPF Feed.

    Do you use a plugin to reroute all Feed request or do you use some hand-crafted rewrite rules in the .htaccess file?

    Maybe the plugin has got a possibility to make an exception for the
    XSPF Feed. Or maybe use different plugin which has such a possibility.
    Or if you use hand-crafted rewrite rules then you should change the rules and make an exception for this special Feed. I’m sure that this is possible. But I’m no .htaccess expert and I can’t give you specific ideas for such rules.

    BTW: The podPress Feed Buttons widget offers the possibility to enter alternative Feed URLs. That is exactly for such a use-case. You can enter the Feedburner URL there and these Feed buttons will be linked to the right Feed URLs.

    Regards,
    Tim

    Thread Starter drezac

    (@drezac)

    The Widget appears, but nothing appears in the Widget. I added it back. I’ve never even seen what this mysterious player looks like.

    https://edreach.us

    All I did was re-route my podcast feed through feedburner.
    https://edreach.us/?feed=podcast is now
    feeds.feedburner.com/edreachnetwork

    I even tried to enter the original podcast feed as a Custom URL, but that didn’t work either. It just shows up blank.

    Just seems broke.

    DR

    Daniel,

    I see. There are two problems.
    The first that https://edreach.us/?feed=playlist.xspf leads to the https://feeds.feedburner.com/edreach Feed which is a usual RSS Feed and not a XSPF playlist. If URL does not lead to such a special XSPF playlist then the player does not work.

    The second problem is that the player seems to be invisible. I would like to take a further look at it later this day. Please, leave the player widget as it is for the next 10 hours.

    But as I have written above, if the playlist URL does not lead to a proper playlist then the player will not work. So, please find out why the playlist URL leads to the normal RSS Podcast Feed.

    Regards,
    Tim

    Daniel,

    I believe that I have found the source of the problem of the invisible player. I have made some changes and the current Development Version contains now a bug fix for this problem.

    Please, try this version and look whether the Player appears or not.

    Thanks and regards,
    Tim

    Thread Starter drezac

    (@drezac)

    How do I upgrade to the Dev version without having to re-do my settings?

    Daniel

    Make a backup of your db. That is always a good idea.
    Afterwards download the .zip file of the Development Version, unpack it, delete the old files and folder of podPress (for instance via FTP) and upload the new, unpacked files and folders.
    The settings should stay as they are – even the widget settings.

    Regards,
    Tim

    Thread Starter drezac

    (@drezac)

    I just noticed that Podpress was updated! Does this mean I don’t have to upload the Dev version?

    Well, it appears the Widget is STILL not working.

    https://edreach.us/

    *sigh*

    Daniel

    Daniel,

    in general the occurrence of some error messages or problems is connected to the configuration of a web server. Messages which occur on some servers and don’t occur on other servers. In case like this where I can not reproduce the problem on one of my test blogs, it is sometimes necessary that the user who discovered the problem tests the Development Version before a new version can be released. Because it is very hard to rebuild the exact server configuration and it is of course no good idea to mark a not tested version as stable and let everyone be a beta tester.

    Sometimes more than one test and modification is required to solve a problem.

    The modification I mentioned above was uncritical and good for everyone. It was okay to put it into 8.8.9.2. But it obviously was not the only problem.

    I have made further changes and put them into the current Development Version.
    It is a new option at the Player Settings page of podPress to use an alternative method to load the default skin file of the XSPF player.

    Please, try this Development Version and activate this new option and tell me whether the player elements like a play and stop button appear.

    Regards,
    Tim

    BTW: The URL https://edreach.us/feed/playlist.xspf leads still to the Feedburner version of a default RSS Feed of your blog and not to a proper XSPF playlist. That is a problem which is not caused by podPress or its components. You need to change that in order to get the XSPF player play your podcast episodes.

    Thread Starter drezac

    (@drezac)

    BTW: The URL https://edreach.us/feed/playlist.xspf leads still to the Feedburner version of a default RSS Feed of your blog and not to a proper XSPF playlist. That is a problem which is not caused by podPress or its components. You need to change that in order to get the XSPF player play your podcast episodes.

    So – I mentioned earlier – I’m not going to unroute my feed from Feedburner, because the benefits far outweigh having a Player Widget. There’s a lot of data that comes from there, that is beneficial to this site that I wouldn’t have otherwise.

    If there is another way to make the XSPF player work without undoing feedburner, then let me know.

    Daniel

    Daniel,

    you should not unroute all of your Feeds from Feedburner. Just unroute https://edreach.us/feed/playlist.xspf (or https://edreach.us/?feed=playlist.xspf which is the same) which is no RSS or ATOM Feed.

    If you tell me how you route your Feeds to Feedburner then I might be able to help you unroute https://edreach.us/feed/playlist.xspf .
    Which plugin do you use to route your Feeds to Feedburner?

    Regards,
    Tim

    Thread Starter drezac

    (@drezac)

    Thanks for sticking with me on this one. You may in fact be helping me sort out a grander issue.

    you should not unroute all of your Feeds from Feedburner. Just unroute https://edreach.us/feed/playlist.xspf (or https://edreach.us/?feed=playlist.xspf which is the same) which is no RSS or ATOM Feed.

    When I add a podcast to my post, am I NOT supposed to be checking off RSS or ATOM?

    I don’t use a plugin for Feedburner. I simply went to Feedburner and burned my podcast feed separately from my blog feed.

    https://edreach.us/?feed=podcast
    to
    https://feeds.feedburner.com/EdReachNetwork

    My blog feed is https://edreach.us/feed/
    which I burned to Feedburner as https://feeds.feedburner.com/edreach

    Podpress gives you your own podcast feed, I’m pretty sure.

    Where can we go next?

    DR

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