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4:54 am
24 November, 2008
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Yes, I reset the defaults and it is still not working.
Rob F
8:51 pm
14 October, 2008
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I'm trying to use your plugin to do a podcast feed for my worship ministry, I've tried setting it up through feedburner, and thought it was working correctly. Here's the feedburner address. http://feeds.feedburner.com/WamPodcast. I used the private podcast feed for the feedburner feed: http://worship.gateway-community.com/wam-podcast/?podcast.
There are enclosures in the feedburner address. When I submitted the podcast to iTunes, i used the feedburner address and they recognized the enclosures, and when I follow the link emailed me from iTunes, it shows two enclosures, but when I subscribe there are no playable episodes. I've turned off the stats like you mentioned to Vicky, I've validated the feed. I have no idea what's going on. I really don't want to have to change the feed for iTunes. Any help?
5:54 pm
14 December, 2005
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@David: I'm sorry you're having trouble with Feedburner. The problem is really caused by iTunes not recognising files it should, but I have created a workaround when the feed is loaded by iTunes (which turns stats off). I think the only solution is for me to also turn stats off when the feed is loaded by Feedburner. I'll do this in version 0.40 (due in a few days).
@Daniel Riem: Can you send me a link to the page where you have the problem. I can't quite visualise what you mean. It's possible sermon browser is too wide, perhaps. There's instructions for changing that here: http://www.4-14.org.uk/sermon-browser/faq#changesearchform
@Daniel: Version 0.39 shouldn't affect any changes you may have made to your templates. To be safe, though, copy your two templates and CSS into a text file before you do the upgrade.
3:39 am
21 July, 2008
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I am trying to get iTunes to working and was looking at your code. Please take a look at your widget.php file and the sb_first_mp3 function). It seems to need work (the .40 release file). I can not get iTunes to recoginze the feed using the itunes detect method as written, if I move the lookup the file path for the mp3 file (the check for !stats) down to the bottom else statement (the reverse of the logic) then I get it to load and it gives me the file name using basic RSS feed buttons in browsers (else it gives me an abrevated folder path with the link still good). It is your plug-in and just wanted to give some feedback to see what the intent is. I haven't tried Feedburner yet. Also, reading up on itunes formating, a script file of some sort may be a nice option to add to the descriptions and summary tags to give churches more of a plug. Probally many WP based churches have short bi-lines and it does not really necessarly describe the intent of a podcast. Also an image for a podcast icon would be nice.
3:09 pm
21 July, 2008
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With more checking of the code, it seems that itunes (at least version 8) may not be sending out a "itunes" user agent which causes the logic not to work for the way itunes needs the file (actual url). Looking at the entire code, my suggestion would be to offer back the url for any of the podcast requests. Unless I am misunderstanding your code this would seem to work. Of course I do not know the whole picture of the program and my suggestion may break more than it fixes. If you like to chat about this offline send me an email. At this time christum.org site is always sending back the actual file url (place that logic in the bottom else statement) and it seems not to be breaking your plugin and it works with itunes version 8. As always, this is a great plugin for church work.
5:20 am
29 December, 2008
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When I try to get iTunes to recognize the itpc://feedurl link, it rejects it. How do I get that fixed?
5:42 am
29 December, 2008
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Update. I clicked on the itpc: link created with ITunes open and it rejected it as a valid podcast feed.
5:47 am
29 December, 2008
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PS, I just clicked on the ITunes link in YOUR church's site
http://www.bethel-clydach.co.uk/sermons/
And Itunes doesn't recognize it either.
4:07 am
21 July, 2008
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A little more digging and this seems a possiblity. I have PHP version 4.3. From what I am reading it looks like the stripos function is only for PHP 5. That being the case the logic is never tested hence not feed to itunes correctly. I will try the alternative to the function to see if that works correctly tommorrow. I am guessing that anyone that does not have PHP 5 on their servers is not getting their podcasts to work for itunes or feedburner.
4:08 am
29 December, 2008
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William, I have php 5 and it still doesn't produce a viable iTunes feed.
1:13 pm
14 December, 2005
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@Chuck & @William Helms: I'm sorry for the problems you're having with iTunes. It looks perhaps as though a bug as been introduced into SermonBrowser that affects iTunes, I'm afraid by a momentary lapse of concentration on my part. I'll update the plugin with the new code (it will take 15 minutes or so for Wordpress Extend to 'notice'). It should work with PHP4 now, as well – thanks for the heads up on stripos.
10:30 pm
21 July, 2008
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Thanks, Itunes now works. Can you consider expanding on the next release to include the additional tags that iTunes support to allow for a more informative podcast. See Apple's tech specification for other podcast tags. I would suspect that not all churches' about line is the same that they would prefer for their podcasts. Something in the options page would be nice to allow to maximize description of the intent of the podcast. Also, if you add preacher under the itunes:author (under item) it adds to the podcast search feature. Tech info at http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcast/specs.html. I have added those features and they work but it requires modification to your podcast file.
11:49 pm
29 December, 2008
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I was able to subscribe to your podcast Mark, but after uninstalling sermon browser completely and reinstalling the new version, I still can't get ITunes to recognize the feed.
Chuck
12:03 am
29 December, 2008
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Note. I have wordpress 2.6.5 if that makes a difference.
12:46 pm
14 December, 2005
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@Chuck: The problem with your podcast feed is probably due to your use of the ampersand (&) in your description of your most recent sermon. These characters break feed readers, and sermonbrowser has to change each one it finds. It’s not currently doing so in the description field. I can fix this for the next version, but while you’re waiting, you might like to swap it for an ‘and’ in your description.
3:57 pm
29 December, 2008
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@Mark. Thank's for the "&" warning. I've deleted the "&" in the descriptions but it still doesn't seem to produce a valid podcast. What else am I doing wrong?
5:24 pm
14 December, 2005
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Hmm, you're using a whole lot of HTML code in your descriptions which would also break the podcast feed. I've uploaded a new version which will hopefully fix this. It should be available as an automatic update within 15-60 minutes.
7:55 pm
29 December, 2008
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@Mark. I sent you another donation. But not nearly as much as it's worth! I will try to do more later. ITunes is working. I'm famous now! :)
10:47 pm
28 January, 2009
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I know that this is not the correct way to do this, BUT, I was able to get iTunes and feed compatability by manually entering the data in the /podpress.xml file, and deleting the auto detect sequence that was there. This seems old fashioned and I am sure that you had programmed it correct, I just can't get it to work. Btw, I did add the itunes tags in the templates – and it just wouldn't work – I could see the information and date and title on iTunes, but it would not download the file.
Any tips before I get to far into loading this manually?
10:18 pm
29 January, 2009
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I also really love this plug-in. It makes our website a much more powerful resource.
But I am also having trouble with iTunes seeing the meta data. The description in iTunes is blank and the artist info says "unknown." Users who were subscribed previous to switching to Sermon Browser (I was using PodPress before)aren't getting new sermons. Any direction you can provide would be great. Thanks!
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