Feed problems: Can anyone help?

[goliardhk]

I use Wordpress with the Podpress plugin with my podcast. Everything was working fine until I tried to use Podtrac and added the redirect to the link to the MP3 in each file.

On the blog page things look fine. If you choose to download the MP3 directly, it takes you to a tidy, valid link like this:

http://www.breakawaycontent.com/ilv/audiofiles/08ilv.mp3

In the feed, however, the link shows up like this:

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breakawaycontent.com%2Filv%2Faudi ofiles%2F08ilv.mp3

And that's essentially the right address except all the punctuation has been replaced by %32A% and so on.

I have unselected the checkboxes about Podtrac stats *and* about Podpress stats, so now I'm doing no monitoring at all but the enclosures in the feed still look like garbage. Any clues?

The feed is here: http://www.breakawaycontent.com/ilv/wordpress/feed/ :cry:

[lucky_groom]

The extra characters you are getting are the characters entities used in html to show things like the "/" or a ":" without it being recognized as html.

Are you cutting and pasting your file url for the show into the podpress plugin? Some programs automatically convert the html into the special characters.

You might try manually typing the url into the podpress box and see if that's any help.

Just so you know - I gave up on the podpress plugin and the podtrac plugin in Wordpress for my site - it just seemed to muck things up. Instead I use the normal podtrac redirect and just link to my files in the body of each blog entry.

Good luck!

[Pokasta]

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breakawaycontent.com%2Filv%2Faudi ofiles%2F08ilv.mp3

is the same as

http://www.breakawaycontent.com/ilv/audiofiles/08ilv.mp3

The respective characters have simply been replaced with 'safe' alternatives (as the previous poster mentioned), its to do with HTML/URL passing etc...

When presented in HTML and not in the 'raw' format of the feed, the link should display correctly so you shouldnt worry!