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The Tech Stuff - with The Podcast Standards Project

  • Writing a clever bit of redirection magic for your new RSS podcast feed? Apple Podcasts requires a valid file extension in the enclosure URL for your show to be correctly ingested, even if the enclosure URL is actually a redirect. (Ask us how we know!) The Livewire Podcast Validator has been updated.

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  • Also, while we’re talking Apple Podcasts: you can add RSS URLs directly to the Apple Podcasts app. But, if debugging an RSS feed, know that if the RSS URL appears in the Apple Podcasts directory, your app will use the version parsed by central Apple Podcasts systems and not the RSS feed directly. Add a cachebuster parameter at the end of the RSS URL to stop this from happening.

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  • Podcasting 2.0 this week has Mike Kadin from Red Circle as a guest, talking about dynamic audio insertion and the challenges it gives a podcast hosting company.

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