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Podcast not working for iTunes

1 August, 2010
5:50 pm

rdsaunders

South Wales

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rakess said:

I had the same problem. To fix I need to make sure I have a / in the front of the folder where my sermons were located. my folder was "wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/sermons/" so I changed it to
"/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/sermons/" and voila it works fine.

Thought this might help someone.

Thanks rakess, this sorted my issue out with iTunes :)

12 August, 2010
7:53 pm

tomwing

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Steve,
Go to — Sermons-option panel and change where you have:
"http://www.newcastlechristianstudents.org/bible-talks/?podcast"
to
"http://www.newcastlechristianstudents.org/podcast/?podcast"

Also make sure that you do not have any blank spaces in the mp3’s file name — use dashes of underscore. The blank spaces will confuse iTunes.

12 August, 2010
8:05 pm

tomwing

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Taylor Jones

See the reply to steve and you will need to put:

"http://kingdomlifeministries.cc/podcast/?podcast"

later…. (i hope this helps)

14 August, 2010
11:28 pm

stevewatt

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Hi Tomwing

thanks for the suggestions.
I really appreciate you trying to help me out.

I'm not sure why your suggestion will make any difference.
(I did try it and it didn't work)
All it does is point the podcast feed to a non-existant folder.
Do you mean that I need to change where the podcasts are stored?

Confusedly

Steve

4 October, 2010
8:38 pm

SapitoII

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well it seems is a recurrent problem, I just working with a site for my church is still in beta form. I been using the sermon browser plugin an work great, it play the files on the site and u can download'em but u can not get'em to play in the itunes podcast. I have done pretty much everything I read in the forum but can't get it to work.

u can see the podcast in the itunes but it wont download it and show you the [i] icon, if u click on it will tell you that the url can be found.

can anyone help me out in this one so I can launch the site.

Thanks
Carlos Perez

the site is http://carlosandgrace.com/wcc/…..page_id=34

thanks again

12 October, 2010
5:29 pm

cclauset

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Ben Miller said:

Steve, my theory right now is that iTunes is having trouble with all of the special characters in the filenames of your .mp3 files. Here is what I suggest:

Try adding a new sermon, and make sure the filename only has letters, numbers, dashes "-" and underscores "_". No spaces, commas, parentheses, periods (except for the one before "mp3", or any other special characters. Then we'll see if iTunes can download that one.

Please let us know how it turns out.

It appears that iTunes prefers rawURLencode encoded filenames instead of URLencode (which is what Sermon Browser uses). So by simply editing the podcast.php function (lines 61, 64 and 66) to replace the URLencode function call with rawURLencode instead I was able to get our sermons to download within iTunes (without having to remove spaces in our filenames). And it doesn't appear to have affected anything else. I don't know jack about PHP or RSS, but it worked for me…

29 November, 2010
7:33 pm

Poimen

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jidd said:

[quote]Ben Miller said:

Steve, my theory right now is that iTunes is having trouble with all of the special characters in the filenames of your .mp3 files. Here is what I suggest:

Try adding a new sermon, and make sure the filename only has letters, numbers, dashes "-" and underscores "_". No spaces, commas, parentheses, periods (except for the one before "mp3", or any other special characters. Then we'll see if iTunes can download that one.

Please let us know how it turns out.

My filename structure is simply the service date in international format, and I was experiencing the same problem. But I *think* I may have figured out the issue for my site at least. The default upload folder path is a relative path and does not have a leading slash. I inserted a leading slash, then deleted and resubscribed to the feed and it seems to have fixed the problem, at least for my installation. I hope it'll work for others as well.

Cheers,
JD[/quote]

Cool! Steve, you're a genius… either that or you got lucky. Either way, adding the leading slash fixed the problem for me. Thanks. Matt

22 December, 2010
9:19 pm

jaydub

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tljdesign said:
http://grab.by/3Uq0
Taylor

That picture you posted helped me get my stuff (mostly) working, so thank you for that. :D
Still don't know why/what the problem was, but now 1/2 my feed is working (the non-itunes part).

So I'll carry on trying to figure out the itunes part. :D

Thanks!!

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