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do i need to make a new feed?

i am making a podcast using word press and my feed url is

http://ibsoccer.com/wp/?feed=podcast

but when you click on it, it just goes to my website and not my actual podcast mp3... what am i doing wrong?

thanks!

g5, Mac OS X (10.3.x)

Posted on Nov 8, 2007 6:33 AM

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Nov 8, 2007 9:15 AM in response to ibsoccer

You really aren't doing anything wrong . . . that link is just what will come up when people look at your feed in a browser (mostly just Firefox; Safari re-renders the feed and will display your MP3). When people actually subscribe to your podcast using some kind of podcast client, they will download this file: http://www.uccs.edu/~cdecker/ibsoccer/116_07UCCSRadio.mp3, which is exactly what you want to happen.

So, in short, you are doing great; please don't make a new feed!

Nov 8, 2007 9:46 AM in response to ibsoccer

Yeah, I subscribed and got an error too. Which is disappointing, because Feed Validator gives it the all clear.

Given that you are using Wordpress, the error could be a number of things, some of which may be hard to figure out. But my best guess is that it has something to do with the fact that the size of your MP3 file has been specified incorrectly. In the code of your feed, the enclosure tag says length="1" when it should be length="14065000". The duration of your file has also been identified incorrectly. The tag looks like this: <itunes:duration>00:01:01</itunes:duration> when it should look like this: <itunes:duration>00:30:00</itunes:duration>. You should be able to fix both of these problems by telling Wordpress how many KB or MB your file is, and also how long it plays for. So, I would try to fix those two things first. If they don't work, the error may be caused by Wordpress using CDATA in your feed, which I have no idea how to go about changing.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

P.S. Be sure to reset your episode limit to its max (like 100) because if you don't, once you reach past 5 episodes Wordpress will start making your older episodes disappear.

do i need to make a new feed?

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