My podcasts don't play on iPhone

My podcasts appear to download to iPhone, but when you try to play, each track appears to start playing but then moves on to the next track before you hear anything. Had this complaint from multiple users who have no problem playing other podcasts. Mine is hosted on soundcloud (Conversation Earth). Another podcast I host on soundcloud works fine. All the tracks have download enabled on both.

Posted on Sep 26, 2016 7:34 AM

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Sep 26, 2016 2:06 PM in response to David Gardner7

There is no difference between the two. CastFeedValidator reports that byte range requests are working in both cases. Terminal shows that a 301 redirect is in place in both cases, followed by a 302 redirect - all this redirection isn't a good idea. However, both have downloads enabled in SoundCloud, so that when you enter the media file URL in a browser it downloads rather than playing. This has been known to cause problems in the past, and strictly you should disable this, but it doesn't seem to be an issue now - I could play the top episode from both direct from the Store.


As I say I can't check this on an iPhone; your next move should be to ask in the iPhone forum and get someone to check that they see the same problem. If they do I can only suggest contacting SoundCloud.

Sep 26, 2016 2:15 PM in response to David Gardner7

It was the case recently that forced downloads would prevent episodes from playing in the iTunes Store. This may no longer be the case. Subscribers will download the episodes in the usual way even with downloading turned off. I can't answer for people who access the file through Soundcloud rather than iTunes.


As to the redirects, this is the result of testing for byte range requests in Terminal (301 is a permanent redirect, 302 a temporary one. You would have to take this up with Soundcloud, though as it's the same in both cases I don't see it being the problem):


curl -I -r 200-300 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/246518423-conversation-earth-reinvent-the-eco nomy-gus-speth-118.mp3

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 21:11:14 GMT

Location: http://feeds-tmp.soundcloud.com/stream/246518423-conversation-earth-reinvent-the -economy-gus-speth-118.mp3

Server: am/2

Content-Length: 0


curl -I -r 200-300 http://feeds-tmp.soundcloud.com/stream/246518423-conversation-earth-reinvent-the -economy-gus-speth-118.mp3

HTTP/1.1 302 Found

Cache-Control: no-cache

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 21:11:35 GMT

Location: http://ec-media.sndcdn.com/r70B06luMP0r?f10880d39085a94a0418a7ef61b03d5275edf836 95e0cd6a5a31b806e2b3795db76a11052027e9cc4184c8323fd7a93daae6dbb6a5de6600445de2fa 8d

Server: am/2

Status: 302 Found

Content-Length: 228

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