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6:37 pm
14 July, 2008
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Has anyone had success with their feeds in iTunes? I can see the feed, but the iTunes can't download any files.
When I open the feed manually in Firefox, I can see all of the files there, and can click to download.
I've tried this on the example Bethel Church, and it has the same problem, so maybe it's my iTunes install.
Thanks!
2:45 pm
8 July, 2008
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I've also had the same issue with iTunes not being able to find any recognizable audio content to play. Here is a link to my page where you can subscribe to my iTunes podcast:
http://www.tpckearney.org/sermons/
Any ideas as to why iTunes isn't picking up the audio files? Like Todd G said if you subscribe to the podcast via firefox all the audio shows up just fine…
-David
5:59 pm
17 July, 2008
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I'm also having iTunes problems.
I've not changed my public feed address, but I've run the public/private feed through feed burner and podmedic says there's an enclosure, but iTunes doesn't want to know…
(same thing if I click the itpc link on a page)
I've got it on a test site at: http://wordpress.jpc-design.com/sermons/ and the feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jpcjunk
I think the plugin's great though!
10:28 am
14 December, 2005
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I can also confirm that the RSS feed is not iTunes compatible. All other podcasting software and RSS readers are unaffected. This is an iTunes "quirk" (a.k.a. bug) which conflicts with the stats counting mechanism (see here for Apple's explanation). The only short term solution will be to disable click tracking for RSS feeds, though it may be possible to make it work later.
3:25 pm
8 July, 2008
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Hi Mark,
Thanks for getting back to me about the iTunes issue. How would one go about disabling RSS tracking? Can I comment out some code or something? Thanks.
2:42 pm
8 July, 2008
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Hi Mark,
Ok, I thought everything was fine, but for some reason iTunes still can't read my podcast feed. Link: itpc://feeds.feedburner.com/SermonsTrinityPresbyterianChurch
It says "there are no playable episodes". When I download the files to my local machine, I can play them just fine in iTunes, so I know it's not an issue with the audio file not being compatible with iTunes.
I'm sorry to keep bringing this up, but any ideas?
Thanks
8:11 pm
8 July, 2008
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Hi Mark,
Thanks for taking a look at the iTunes issue while using Feedburner.
Also, I know you have your hands full with feature requests, but I thought I would add mine to the mix just in case you are feeling ambitious. How about adding something to the "Options" page in the plugin settings for allowing comments per sermon? It would be great if people in the church could submit comments or questions for the pastor about the sermon and he could respond….or others in the congregation could answer the comments. This would most likely require a large code tweak so I totally understand if it is too big…but I thought I would try. :)
Thanks.
4:32 pm
11 June, 2008
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I've just gone live with sermon browser on my church's site. I use feedburner for the podcast feed, so I simply changed the original feed details to http://www.standrewschurch.org…..s/?podcast.
However iTunes now throws a wobbly and says that there are no playable episodes. If I look at the feed's xml, created by sermon-browser, the link to the file says http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r…..416861950/
I guess iTunes wants a link with the .mp3 file name?
My old feed never use to do this replace the link with a feedburner address, and I've not changed anything in feedburner settings, other than the url for the new feed.
Any ideas why this is happening?
Thanks
10:05 am
14 December, 2005
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@Vicky: You'll see that iTunes can handle the sermon-browser feed directly without problems, so the problem is with Feedburner. I'm fairly sure that having the feedburner stats activated causes the problem. Turn it off, and those URLs should be back to normal.
@Brandon: Could you run some tests for me? (1) Try and upload an image to a preacher. Does it work? (2) Try and upload a very small file < 100k to a sermon. Does THAT work? (3) Do you have any warnings about php.ini settings? (they'd appear on the Options page, just above the first "save" button"). As a temporary workaround whilst we try and find the problem, you should find that files uploaded via FTP do work correctly. There is also a bug (which I only spotted yesterday!) that prevents URL attachments from showing in the search results. I hope to fix this in the next version. I'm also working on the rename/delete issues.
@Jamon: Nothing exists within sermon-browser for automatically playing FLV files. It would be relatively easy to add compatibility with one (or all!) of the existing FLV plugins, though all the videos would have to match the default width/height set in the FLV plugin. If you want to add the functionality, look in frontend.php at line 632 and you'll see the code that displays either the link to the MP3 file, or the audioplayer code. That should be very easy to change if you're at all familiar with PHP. If you make the change, perhaps you could post the code here and I can integrate it in a later version.
9:49 am
11 June, 2008
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I turned off the feedburner stats and it does indeed return the urls to normal, but it didn't make any difference. iTunes is happy with the original feed, but not when it goes through feedburner. Even though to my eyes, the xml looks the same. Anyway – I've got around it for now and have posted a question with feedburner.
On another matter something strange is happening to my styles on http://www.standrewschurch.org…..s/sermons/ It's like the sermon-browser styles are being ignored. If I make changes to the css through the options, nothing changes. I reset to default and it still looks wierd. In Firefox I use the webdeveloper toolbar to view the css for the page and instead of the css styles appearing under http://www.standrewschurch.org…../style.php, the html source code for the entire page appears instead.
I must have done something strange but I can't see what.
It's looking as I would expect locally, but odd on the live site.
1:43 pm
11 June, 2008
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The style.php file is definitely there. I uploaded the entire sb-includes folder again to be sure.
2:12 pm
14 December, 2005
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@Vicky: In that case it will probably be that you don't have execute permissions on the sb-includes folder. CHMOD the folder (or at least the style.php file) to add these permissions.
2:25 pm
11 June, 2008
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Doesn't look like that is it either I'm afraid. Both the includes folder and the style.php file are set to 755.
2:41 pm
14 December, 2005
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@Vicky: http://www.standrewschurch.org…../style.php is returning a 404 error. If that file exists, your server is blocking access. This could be (1) Incorrect permissions [try 777, just in case]. (2) WP rewrite rules [unlikely, but resave permalink structure]. (3) .htaccess settings [even more unlikely].
3:11 am
13 August, 2008
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I hate to be a bother, and maybe someone else can answer, but our podcast feed within iTunes shows all of the data associated with a sermon and the feed, but no mp3 downloads. The feed url in question is http://www.tnova.org/media/mes…..s/?podcast. My permissions are set correctly, as far as I know.
Would I benefit from a reinstall? If I did reinstall, would I lose all of the sermon information already input?
Thanks again for your help and patience.
12:27 pm
14 December, 2005
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@Obed: http://bethelmedia.in/?page_id…..38;podcast displays fine for me – though there might still be a problem with some of the filenames. If it doesn't work for you, it might be a local caching problem. http://bethelmedia.in/?p=8podcast doesn't work (it's invalid), that's a problem with your public feed. Copy your private feed into your public feed field in SermonBrowser options.
@David & @Jamon: There is currently no support for 'series' images. It's a possibility for a future release, but isn't imminent, I'm afraid.
@Daniel: SermonBrowser should allow you to use the same tags as Wordpress does in your posts. But you've identified a bug that strips the href. Sorry! Let me look into it.
@Blake and @Obed: Sermon browser/iTunes is struggling with the filenames (do they have spaces in?). I'll see what I can do to fix this problem. In the meantime, you might try simpler filenames, and avoid spaces (and perhaps "+" as well) altogether. A reinstall won't help, I'm afraid. Perhaps you could do a little experiment with different characters in the filenames, and see which ones iTunes likes?
4:27 pm
24 November, 2008
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I have been using the plugin for a couple of months and set up podcasts with iTunes. However, this week it stopped working and I am not sure why. I have not changed anything that I am aware of on my site.
my feed is http://www.newdurhamchapel.org…..38;podcast
or
itpc://www.newdurhamchapel.org/wp/?page_id=221&podcast for iTunes
at first I thought it was because 2 of my sermons had the "?" in the title but I removed them and it did not fix the problem. Any ideas?
By the way. I love the plugin.
10:03 pm
15 October, 2008
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My feed isn't validating, and therefore not being picked up by iTunes. Can you help me figure out what's going on.
It says the problem is in this line: http://gateway-community.com/?…..terBox.mp3
And it says this: XML parsing error: :23:54: not well-formed (invalid token)
This is my feed: http://gateway-community.com/?podcast
2:53 pm
24 November, 2008
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Hi Mark,
I am still having problems with the podcast feeds.
http://www.newdurhamchapel.org…..38;podcast
I have removed all the files for the old version of the plugin and installed the latest and still getting the same error in the feed.
A semi colon character was expected.
Line: 3 Character: 73
I suspect that it does not like one of the sermons but I cannot tell which one. I changed the titles so that they did not have anything but basic text. Also, I reset the defaults on the options page as you suggested and no luck. Any ideas? Again, this issue just cropped up recently the podcast feed was working fine for several weeks. It actuall appeared before I did any updates on the plugin.
BTW, I really like the plugin and I have gotten positive feedback from the church. Thanks again.
Rob F.
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