Embeded audio shows as ‘attachment’ in RSS readers now?

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  thedeli · Member · Feb 6, 2010 at 2:34 pm

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  I often embed mp3s (hosted offsite) and make the little WP audio player which translates just fine in RSS readers. Recently, the same file will _also_ show up as a downloadable ‘attachment’, in addition to the player. I’m told that email subscriptions have seen the same change, now getting a message: “This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now”.

  I can’t find an announcement about this anywhere, and I’ve made no changes to preferences. Is there a way I can adjust this? I don’t want my media files to be downloadable/attached.

  Thanks!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thedeli · Member · Feb 7, 2010 at 5:03 am

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  Really? No one?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 7, 2010 at 5:22 am

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  Contact

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  thedeli · Member · Feb 7, 2010 at 8:34 pm

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  Done – thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 7, 2010 at 8:38 pm

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  You’re welcome.

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  designsimply · Member · Feb 13, 2010 at 5:55 am

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  @thedeli, WordPress.com blogs that have embedded media get enclosure tags added to the feed. It’s the expected behavior for embedded media from an enclosure tag to show up as a link in a feed reader.

  It may also depend on the feed reader you are using. This is from the RSS enclosure page on Wikipedia:

  Support and implementation among aggregators varies: if the software understands the specified file format, it may automatically download and display the content, otherwise provide a link to it or silently ignore it.

  Note that we recently fixed a bug that was causing enclosure links to break in some cases. Your blog was probably affected by that bug and that’s why you’re noticing a change now.

  Adding audio shortcodes to a post does not cause the audio file to be attached to blog subscription email.