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Trying to subscribe to your mp3 rss feed in itunes and it's only showing up to ep 156 even though 158 is clearly in your feed and 157 has been there for a week. any idea what's going on?

the feed i'm trying to use is http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheLinuxLinkTechShowMp3Feed

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Another superior Apple product!
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Hint: TLLTS does not contrul iTunes.

Episode 157 is when they started using the mirrored feed, so my guess is iTunes can't handle the redirect.

Yes, looking at the XML it seems like the episodes which have the mirror.php redirect are not handled by iTunes correctly.

However, I also noted that ep. 158 is wrongly tagged as audio/ogg instead of audio/mp3. Is this some feedburner problem or something wrong with TLLTS?

coolfrood wrote:Yes, looking at the XML it seems like the episodes which have the mirror.php redirect are not handled by iTunes correctly.

However, I also noted that ep. 158 is wrongly tagged as audio/ogg instead of audio/mp3. Is this some feedburner problem or something wrong with TLLTS?

That is from the piss poor quality control when designing the rss feed.

dann wrote: That is from the piss poor quality control when designing the rss feed.

Piss poor is good enough for me! I still got the files OK.

Another case of Apple making up their own 'standards'? Someone please tell me how Apple is considered 'friendly' to F/OSS?

Patrick wrote:Someone please tell me how Apple is considered 'friendly' to F/OSS?

Because old uncle Steve says so!

dann wrote:

coolfrood wrote:Yes, looking at the XML it seems like the episodes which have the mirror.php redirect are not handled by iTunes correctly.

However, I also noted that ep. 158 is wrongly tagged as audio/ogg instead of audio/mp3. Is this some feedburner problem or something wrong with TLLTS?

That is from the piss poor quality control when designing the rss feed.

I've looked into this some more on my superior apple product. In iTunes the feed shows up with all the episodes except the last one right now. You can play 157 right out of the feed through itunes. But when I subscribe to the feed, 157 does not show up as a download.

Apparently iTunes validates the contents of the enclosure in a funny way (using the file extension?). I've seen some sites that say if you do use a redirect, it has to redirect to a full url within the enclosure url for iTunes to use it.

I can't verify this, but you might also want to try using Apache's mod_rewrite to make the link a bit cleaner. Add the following lines to your httpd.conf / vhosts file:
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/mirror/(.*) /mirror.php?fname=$1
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The files could then be accessed by going to http://www.tllts.org/mirror/tllts_157-09-13-06.mp3

Most of what I'm running into is the opposite - people putting up fucked up vbr mp3 casts that iTunes likes just fine, but my linux boxen don't. Even using mp3fix, I end up with a file that gets completely screwy if I fast forward or even pause (pauldotcom security weekly, most notably) sometimes. This is diminishing my happiness on the way to and from work, greatly. TLLTS still plays just fine, though, even if there are occasional sound issues. I hope you guys keep on keepin' on.

Any luck on fixing the feed?

I thought you guys were taking some well deserved time life off only to find two weeks of episodes I missed on your website!

Crikey!

Hopefully this problem will be resolved within 24 hours. We created a new feed specifically for iTunes and applied the <itunes:new-feed-url> tag to the old feed. They say it will take up to 48 hours to change.

If anyone using iTunes can verify the feed is fixed/changed, please post back.

Wow... that was quick! Thanks!

Episode 158 shows up and was downloaded automatically... I tried to manually "get" episode 157 but iTunes gave me an error.

No worries... I'll just grab 157 from the website... whatever you did for 158 looks to have worked!

Thanks for a great show guys! Keep on keepin' on!

I am hoping the link to 157 is fixed now. I'm not sure how long it will take to propagate through feedburner and then iTunes.

157 is a fantastic guest (well, they all are).

It still messes up my Castpodder. Which seems to be the only decent graphical podcast client I've found in Linux. I guess I'll have to give Linc's Bashpodder a try. But I'm a recent Linux convert, and the switch from graphical GUI to scripting is scary,