So I noticed that you numbered all of the episodes recently and updated the RSS feed for all past episodes. I'm wondering why you did that, partially because it broke all of my podcasts and partially because it doesn't really make sense.
JamEngulfer, May 27, 2015, 02:18:26 pm
Answer #1: No I didn't, that's your fault.
Answer #2: RSS is weird.
Serious(ish) answer: I've played with the RSS a fair bit, but except for the one time right after the new thefpl.us site launched and I changed all the GUIDs (
detailed here) because I didn't know what that meant, you shouldn't have any problems. You're saying you did and I guess I'll have to try to believe you, but you
shouldn't is the point.
Here's what every episode's markup looks like...
<item>
<title>EPISODE NUMBER: EPISODE TITLE</title>
<link>EPISODE URL</link>
<guid>EPISODE URL</guid>
<pubDate>RELEASE DATE</pubDate>
<description>DESCRIPTION, NO HTML</description>
<enclosure url="FILE URL" length="FILE SIZE" type="audio/mpeg"/>
<content:encoded>DESCRIPTION, WITH URL
</content:encoded>
<itunes:author>The F Plus</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>reading CONTENT URL(s)</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:duration>RUNTIME</itunes:duration>
<itunes:summary>DESCRIPTION AGAIN</itunes:summary>
<itunes:image href="EPISODE IMAGE"/>
<atom:link rel="payment" type="text/html" href="FLATTR URL"/>
</item>
I've fucked with this a bunch of times since launching the new site, but the one thing I haven't changed (again) is the GUID, which is the unique string that's supposed to say "Hey computer program, this is the ID for this piece of content. Change this and it'll think there's a new piece of content. Is that number helpful? I think so, because I think thefpl.us/episode/144 is a pretty good canonical URL. And while the episodes don't necessarily having a solid continuum, there's a difference between an episode in the 120s and an episode in the 20s, so I think that's a good thing to display.
But, I wanna know what you're using for a podcatcher and what you mean by "broke all my podcasts".