PodPress "difficulty downloading episodes?"

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PodPress "difficulty downloading episodes?"

Hello everyone,

I appologies if this has been asked before but I have searched around and can't seem to narrow down the true issue at hand.

As of last week I've started a small podcast for my company for the convenience of agents to listen in on ongoing education training.

I am getting the "We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed," error upon submission. I am using PodPress and can't seem to figure out why.

Looking at the feed: http://live.expcloud.com/feed/podcast

When I check on http://validator.w3.org/feed/ it's validated but has email suggestions and iframe issue (I will resolve that by using custom values in descriptions, right now it's pulling in excerpt from the post which contains a Youtube video sorry.)

Can anyone look at my feed and tell me what I've done wrong? Are the mp3's to large? Each class ranges between 30-60 minutes. I am using mp3 format.

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Posted on Feb 1, 2013 10:35 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 1, 2013 10:42 AM in response to eddihughes

First off the file in your enclosure tag returns a 503 error

http://live.expcloud.com/podpress_trac/feed/234/0/real-estate-time-management.mp 3

You need the files to deliver correctly for the feed to be accepted.

Second - Podpress is an old wordpress plug in that stopped working correctly some time ago. Best not to use it.

You need to make sure your media files can deliver correctly first - then you can build your feed for iTunes.

Where are you currently hosting your media files?

Rob W

podCast411

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Answer 2

Feb 1, 2013 10:43 AM in response to eddihughes

Your top episode's media file URL is

http://live.expcloud.com/podpress_trac/feed/234/0/real-estate-time-management.mp 3

This redirects to

http://live.expcloud.com/files/2013/01/real-estate-time-management.mp3

which brings up a web page with the interesting message

Error 503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable

Guru Meditation:

XID: 1681437712

Varnish cache server

The 503 error means 'Gateway timeout - server waited for another service that did not complete in time'.

(In fact the result is instantaneous so that's a pretty short timeout). You need to talk to the people running the server.

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