shalako

I have installed the latest dev version but don’t see where ‘ep cats’ and ‘ep author’ are in the UI. Not in the channel ‘add field’ drop down.

I’m pretty sure it was just a matter of clearing the browser cache. In FF3 it’s Tools > Clear Private Data…

Not super-cache, just whatever caching WP and Feedburner have built-in.

Thanks.

sounds great. let me know when i can test it for you ??

caption appears when you insert an image from the wordpress media gallery.

one more item i came across: i thought it made sense to group my podcasts under a parent category called, surprisingly, Podcasts. However, this parent category doesn’t appear in the ‘Add Channel’ drop down category list so I can’t configure feed settings for a channel which would contain content for all podcasts. make sense?

cheers!

Thanks again for your replies. I have been referencing the same spec.

#4
I would expect ID3 tags to be the default authority for item-level meta and any web-app logic an override. This comes from a perspective of work flow; the file is managed locally before uploading to the server. Why do the work twice? I can see how some would prefer to set item author to post author but that should be a an override provided as a convenience, what do you think?

#3
I see in the iTunes spec that item category isn’t supported; didn’t notice that before. I’ve been using the podcasts I subscribe to as models; they all have item category set to Music even when they have multiple channels. Would love to know how they do that. Given the choice between displaying the WP post category and being blank, I’d go with blank.

#1,3,5 (Subtitle and Summary)
I’ve just discovered that with Feedburner’s Smartcast feature turned off things work a little better:
channel subtitle (itunes description) = Subtitle (pod-chan)
channel summary (itunes ‘i’ in description) = Summary (pod-chan)
item subtitle = truncated post text
item summary = post text

When Smartcast is turned on the channel subtitle gets set to Summary.

So working with Smartcast off for the moment, things look like they are behaving the way you built them.

I would argue that 250 character have no place in the iTunes Description column. How do you read it all? Apple says, “The subtitle displays best if it is only a few words long.”

Also, your logic for item subtitle sets unfortunate demands on the way posts are written. Rather than begin the post with some prose and have these first 250 chars appear as irrelevant text in iTunes Description for that episode, I have to begin my post with a summary (ie, “This week we focus on the music of SoAndSo”) and even then the balance of 250 chars appears in iTunes.

Would it be difficult to add a text field for item subtitle? If not, how about set it to the value of post excerpt rather than truncating the post body?

As for item summary, I can understand the logic for including the entire post text, but can we filter out the WordPress markup such as ‘caption’ and ‘audio’ (the second being markup for wpaudioplayer)?

Whew. Thanks!

Don’t I feel foolish. I think you’re right about caching.

By clearing the cache after each save, I have just been able to reliably turn the redirect on and off.

Thanks ??

When the podcast is expanded, clicking on the channel summary (‘i’ in Description) shows the correct value specified in the plugin settings.

However when the podcast is collapsed, clicking on the ‘i’ shows the whole body of the post. I assume this is the value of the item summary.

I noticed that getID3() is included with the plugin; couldn’t this be used to pull item-level itunes:author from the ID3 tags?

I tag all these files meticulously in iTunes before uploading them in the first place; it’s a shame this information has be set again by various means on the server…

Thanks!

i wanted to test whether feedburner had updated the xml so i removed the feedburner url for my channel. saved channel data. the feed url no longer redirected. after testing i added the feedburner url back. saved. now it won’t redirect. very strange.

do you know if it’s possible to configure email notifications in this forum? i don’t see the setting in profile. thats why i am responding so irregularly. if it would be helpful i’d be happy to give you my IM and I could test as soon as you’ve made an update. if so, send me your IM on my website contact form. (don’t see a way to do direct messaging on this forum, either.

installed the dev version. still doesn’t work ??
verified that all occurences of feedburn_redirect are meta:feedburn_redirect

great. now changes save.

happy to help you with the feedback, especially because your plugin seems to be the only one going in same direction i am.

first thing i tested is the feedburner url redirect field. I’ve created a channel for this category. In the feedburner URL field I entered this URL. So I would expect that clicking on the WordPress generated feed URL would redirect to the Feedburner URL, but it doesn’t do that. I remember at one point when you first added this functionality I tested and it worked.

Recommendations?

Sweet. Now I see the menu item. However, now I can’t save changes. Clicking ‘Save Channel Data’ returns a blank admin content area; that is, header and left nav sidebar are returned but rest of site is blank

From php.log:
[03-Jan-2009 12:03:58] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare podcast_channels_audio_metadata_fields() (previously declared in /var/www/vhosts/redlightmusic.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/podcast-channels/podcast-channels.php:17) in /var/www/vhosts/redlightmusic.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/podcast-channels/podcast-channels.php on line 41

Alan,

Happy New Year. I’m really grateful for your assistance!

OK one at a time ??

I just installed the development version. Still can’t find the settings in 2.7. Here’s a screenshot. Didn’t find it under the Media section or Settings section on the Media page.

Best,
Shannon

When subscribing to one of my category/channel feeds in iTunes I noticed that the category field was set to the Channel name. This could be interpreted as a convenience but is actually very limiting. The greatest benefit of your plugin is being able to control meta for multiple podcast channels. It would be very helpful if the category weren’t enforced that way.

Example: I want to have multiple podcast feeds hosted from one WP driven site. Let’s say my Categories (Channels) are called “Channel X”, “Channel Y”, and “Channel Z”. All three of these channels will play music. The category field for these channels should all be Music, not the Channel name…

To accomodate this it seems all that would be required is add a text field for Category, right?

What do you think?
Thanks…