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Travision

Mar 8th, 2005, 08:05 PM

Greetings, having trouble getting my second episode to go anywhere... hesitant to make a third episode before I figure this out... any thoughts? Code is below - testing in ipodder. thanks! :roll:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>The CrapMonkey Podcast</title>
<link>http://spaces.msn.com/members/crapmonkey</link>
<description>Movies, Music, Technology and Beer.</description>
<language>En</language>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:26:37 -0800</pubDate>
<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
<managingEditor>crapmonkeyinfo@msn.com</managingEditor>
<webMaster>crapmonkeyinfo@msn.com</webMaster>
<category>Music, Movies, Technology, Beer</category>
<ttl>180</ttl>
<generator>RSSeditor v0.9.50 (http://www.rss-info.com)</generator>
<item>
<title>The CrapMonkey Podcast Episode One</title>
<link>http://spaces.msn.com/members/crapmonkey</link>
<author>CrapMonkey Travis</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2005 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.crapmonkey.com/podcast/CrapMonkey2005-03-06.mp3"

length="7942536" type="audio/mpeg"/>
<description><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0

Transitional//EN"><HTML><HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;

charset=unicode"><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604"

name=GENERATOR></HEAD><BODY></BODY></HTML>]]></description>

</item>
<item>
<title>The CrapMonkey Podcast Episode Two</title>
<link>http://spaces.msn.com/members/crapmonkey</link>
<author>CrapMonkey Travis</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.crapmonkey.com/podcast/CrapMonkey2005-03-07.mp3"

length="8524394" type="audio/mpeg"/>
<description><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0

Transitional//EN"><HTML><HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;

charset=unicode"><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604"

name=GENERATOR></HEAD><body></body></HTML>]]></description>

</item>
</channel>
</rss>

Craig

Mar 9th, 2005, 01:03 AM

The description would be the first thing that throws up a red flag for me. Try replacing it with plain text.

Craig

Travision

Mar 9th, 2005, 06:38 AM

Thanks for the tip... I changed them to very simple descriptions and I still cannot get the second file to go... thoughts?

thanks!

Travision

Mar 9th, 2005, 06:54 AM

Not sure I get this, but I changed hyphens to underscores in the file name and it worked... have you ever seen this before?

thanks.

Craig

Mar 9th, 2005, 08:29 AM

That's very strange...there are plenty of podcasts that use hyphens in the filenames without any problem so I'm not sure what's going on. Glad you got it working though.

Craig

Travision

Mar 9th, 2005, 12:04 PM

Quite strange... and probably not the real issue. After making that change, the file downloaded for me, but a friend is still not receiving episode two. Additionally, I have a friend who has three episodes, and I am only receiving two of the three via ipodder.

Is this common? I can't figure out what factors make an episode unable to be fetched...

thanks

justSue

Mar 13th, 2005, 11:20 AM

Don't know if this makes a difference, but I put the <items> in reverse chronological order. In other words, the latest show is the first <item>. I noticed in yours that you have episode one as the first item, and episode two as the second.

Try reversing?