Podcast Connect can't download episodes
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I’m setting up a Podcast through my WordPress blog and the episodes play fine in the blog, but iTunes is saying it cannot download them. I’ve got a category set as ‘podcast’ which I have tagged all 5 episodes. It is accepting my cover art and description. Here is the feed link.
https://shepherdingandsong.wordpress.com/category/podcast/feed/
Similarly, when I test the feed in iTunes, it shows the cover art but no episodes.
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Hi there,
Podcasts require an audio file, and none of your posts in the Podcast category contain embedded audio. All of them just contain an “archiveorg” shortcode, which is used to embed video from The Internet Archive/archive.org. That shortcode cannot be used to embed audio files for a podcast.
To embed audio, you’ll need to upload your MP3 files to a file sharing service, or you’ll need a paid plan to upload it directly to your site’s media library. Then you embed it on your site following the instructions here:
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Thanks Kokkieh. The links are indeed from the Internet Archive, but they’re not video. They are Archive’s embed links connected to audio files I have uploaded, to use them as the file sharing service.
Do you know of a way to embed the audio directly into a WordPress post? It sounds like that would solve the problem.
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The links are indeed from the Internet Archive, but they’re not video
That doesn’t matter. The shortcode is designed to embed video. It cannot be used to embed other types of media.
You need a direct link to the audio file. That’s the only way to embed audio files on WordPress.com. if the Internet Archive doesn’t provide such a direct link, you won’t be able to use it to host your audio files.
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Ah, there’s my answer. It looks like the embed codes they give me link to a collection of files, when I only need the MP3. If I single out the MP3 file, right click, and choose “copy link,” that gives me the direct link I need. So bypassing the embed codes altogether appears to be the solution. Thanks!
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