Author Topic: Podcast feed is not updating.  (Read 952 times)

adamaxbey

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Podcast feed is not updating.
« on: March 26, 2015, 03:18:11 pm »
It seems that blubrry is not updating my feed: http://localsound.org/?feed=podcast

So I'm working on my first podcast, using Wordpress, the blubrry plugin, hosting the eps on Dropbox and submitting the feed to iTunes. Everything was working fine (playback on the wordpress site and downloads from iTunes) when I decided I wasn't happy with the episode title and file name. So I changed the file name, updated the blog post on my wordpress site and got it to play there. But Itunes will not download. When I go to the podcast feed, the episode title has not been updated: <enclosure url="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/94117/TheListeners_Ep1.mp3" length="50623935" type="audio/mpeg"/>  It should be "http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/94117/Ep%2001%20The%20Gang%20Meets%20Esmerelda.mp3"

So far I've tried:
- switching back to the twenty fourteen theme
- deactivating all other plugins except powerpress
- deleting and reinstalling powerpress

Any help or suggestions would for how to update my feed would be very much appreciated.

thanks,

- Adam.

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Re: Podcast feed is not updating.
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2015, 02:44:56 pm »
The file that is in your feed (http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/94117/TheListeners_Ep1.mp3) is working.  iTunes can take from 1-3 days or more to change your listing.  If you resubscribe to your feed in itunes, you will get the correct file.

You didn't ask, but I'm going to tell you anyway, that Dropbox is NOT a good place to put your podcast media for a couple reasons.

1. It's not  CDN (Media Server) so performance is going to be bad

2. It's against the terms of service for Dropbox and sooner or later, they are going to kick you off for serving media from their service.

If you want true media hosting, check out blubrry hosting at: http://create.blubrry.com/resources/podcast-media-hosting/ and if you want a free month of service to try us out, use the promo code mike

-Mike