Issues with Podcast, Saying Playing error.

I uploaded like I always do on anchor. It's playing on Spotify but not Apple podcast it showing error

iPhone 6, iOS 9

Posted on Jul 23, 2023 6:15 AM

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Posted on Jul 23, 2023 6:40 AM

The episode in question, #95, plays on the web preview but not in the Podcasts App on a Mac. The media file URL is


https://anchor.fm/s/158e1f74/podcast/play/73742181/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F2023-6-20%2F340045565-32000-1-d59d392ca79e6.mp3


I don't know why there should be https in there twice, but the real problem is that the file is not an mp3 file but a mp4. Since the feed contains the 'audio/mpeg' type in the 'enclosure' tag, Podcasts is trying to play it with the codec for mp3 which doesn't work. The website evidently takes the file as it is and plays it anyway.


Therefore you need either to substitute an actual mp3 file or make sure the extension is .mp4: then hopefullt the feed will be updated to show the type as 'video/mp4' (although this is a video format QuickTime does play it as an audio file, however I think you would be better of making it an mp3 file).

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Jul 23, 2023 6:40 AM in response to MacFox12

The episode in question, #95, plays on the web preview but not in the Podcasts App on a Mac. The media file URL is


https://anchor.fm/s/158e1f74/podcast/play/73742181/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F2023-6-20%2F340045565-32000-1-d59d392ca79e6.mp3


I don't know why there should be https in there twice, but the real problem is that the file is not an mp3 file but a mp4. Since the feed contains the 'audio/mpeg' type in the 'enclosure' tag, Podcasts is trying to play it with the codec for mp3 which doesn't work. The website evidently takes the file as it is and plays it anyway.


Therefore you need either to substitute an actual mp3 file or make sure the extension is .mp4: then hopefullt the feed will be updated to show the type as 'video/mp4' (although this is a video format QuickTime does play it as an audio file, however I think you would be better of making it an mp3 file).

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