7.1 appears to break "iTunes Summary Field"

[Charles Wiltgen]

As of 7.1, PowerPress is no longer using the "iTunes Summary" field for the PowerPress-generated feed when the "iTunes Summary Field" preference is checked.

I'd really appreciate if this was fixed ASAP!

— Charles

[Shawn Thorpe]

Hey Charles - can you respond with a link to a feed where you're seeing this behavior? I will also forward this to Angelo and make sure he's aware.

[Charles Wiltgen]

Sure! Here's the feed: http://eopeople.net/feed/podcast

I know it's not using the "iTunes Summary" field because the contents are slightly different.

[Shawn Thorpe]

Thanks for the link, Charles.

Angelo wanted me to check with you and make sure (as far as you know) that this wasn't also happening under the previous version, 7.0.3?

[Charles Wiltgen]

I believe this is a new issue, because (1) the person I'm helping really counts on this functionality so I'm confident he'd have noticed, and (2) he's pretty on top of updates.

I may need to revert to 7.0.x, so if that fixes it I'll confirm here.

[Charles Wiltgen]

Shawn: I've confirmed that this still works correctly in 7.0.4.

[Charles Wiltgen]

Oops, no—there's no apparent way to delete or update my last post, but 7.0.4 (used on another site) still has the problem.

I could try 7.0.3 for you, but WordPress doesn't let me upload that over 7.1. I'm afraid to uninstall 7.1 first because I don't want to lose all of my settings. Any guidance for me on this?

[Shawn Thorpe]

Thanks for the updates, Charles. I am nudging Angelo from multiple directions to look at your issue. I'll report back whatever he has to say, or he'll respond here himself.

[mgdell]

Charles,

The summary is in the feed: http://eopeople.net/feed/podcast correctly as near as I can tell. 

What are they seeing that doesn't add up?  (sorry I got here late)

-Mike

[angelo]

Hello Charles,

Can you be specific which app this is happening in? The feed looks ok.

So we are on the same page, the iOS podcast app uses the content:encoded field if set (it is not set in your feed) then falls back to the iTunes summary. If you do not enter a specific iTunes summary for the episode, the blog post content is used.

If you have a custom value in the iTunes summary field in the episode box and that value is not in the feeds iTunes summary field, then there is a bug. I am testing for this now and do not see an issue but I am trying a few things to try to reproduce.

--angelo

[angelo]

HEllo Charles,

I am unable to reproduce. Every time I customize the itunes summary for an episode it shows up in the feed. It may have something to do with the values entered. Can you take a screen shot of editing the latest episode's itunes summary field? Also, if you can copy/paste what should be in there at the bottom of a reply, i will test with that exact data.

Thanks,
Angelo

[Aaron Clow]

If this is the same issue I spoke of a year ago, please test using Podcast Addict for Android. The entire blog post shows up in the episode summary. This is a recent change, perhaps in the last month or so.

[Aaron Clow]

Some podcast apps (like Podcast Addict, in these screen caps) appear to be pulling the summary from somewhere else:

http://www.tiserves.com/images/blubrry1.png (settings for this episode)

http://www.tiserves.com/images/blubrry2.png (result in Podcast Addict for full episode summary - has ALWAYS shown the full blog post, and this is what I was asking about in my old thread here: https://forum.blubrry.com/index.php/topic,6870.msg21877.html)

http://www.tiserves.com/images/blubrry3.png (this, *until recently*, showed the short summary, but now it shows the same FULL post that the full summary does)

[angelo]

If it is like AntennaPod, it uses gpodder.net podcast directory. I am not 100% sure though. Is your podcast listed on gpodder.net?

[Aaron Clow]

It doesn't look like either one of our podcasts is listed there.

Podcast Addict can use the iTunes search engine. I just tried it and the same descriptions appear when using iTunes engine.