[Plugin: podPress] podcast episode duration problem

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  • Plugin Author ntm

    (@ntm)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    if i use the auto detect duration feature, i get a different value each time, …

    Do you how long this auto detection process takes? It is possible that it reaches a time limit, does not complete correctly and returns a wrong value.
    I have downloaded alikat-cover-sesh-05.29.2012.mp3 and twentyfour.mp3 and uploaded them to my local test blog (not on a public server). The auto detect function retrieves 158:45 min and 58:41 min. Both values are always the same regardless how often I repeat the auto detection. That is why I think that it may have something to do with the server of your blog.

    …none are even close to the actual duration of my episodes.

    If I play the twentyfour.mp3 file with a audio player on my computer (e.g Rhythmbox) then the player displays 1:14:00 as duration but at 58:41 the player jumps to the end or stops playing. Another player software does show a different duration 1:00:06 and stops approximately at 59:40. I don’t know why this happens.

    It would be good if you could whether you produce your podcasts with a different software or different settings compare to older episodes. Maybe do a test of the duration auto detect function with a smaller file. If the problem is a time limit then it should be possible to retrieve always the same duration with a smaller file.

    In the meantime while we are trying find the cause of the problem, you may enter the correct duration values manually.

    I’ve also adjusted my permissions so it should be completely accessible.

    0755 for the folder and 0644 for the file is enough.

    Regards,
    Tim

    Plugin Author ntm

    (@ntm)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    The files are uploaded and available through my blog using the plugin, but my itunes podcast isn’t registering at all.

    I don’t understand. All episodes which are in http://alikat.ca/feed/podcast are available on the iTunes page. If you want to see older episodes in the feed and at the iTunes page then go to the Reading settings of your blog: http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_Screen
    and increase the “Syndication feeds show the most recent …” value (and wait 24h).
    If it is not possible to listen to some of the episodes via the preview play button on the iTunes page then set the file size value and the duration value correctly (eventually by hand at the moment).

    Plugin Author ntm

    (@ntm)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    The file twentyfour.mp3 seems to be a special file. My iTunes client software shows as the duration 1:14:07. The Windows Media Player shows for the same file 1:00:31. Both players play the file with these durations and stop at these times.
    I have converted the file with iTunes to a AAC version. Afterwards the new duration was 00:58:31. The library which podPress uses to detect the duration detects this duration correctly.

    Thread Starter AliKat

    (@alisondoyle)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi, wow, thank you for your quick response. When I said it ‘doesn;t resgiser at all” that was the wrong wording, because it does show on my podcast, its the duration that I am having problems with.

    Do you how long this auto detection process takes? It is possible that it reaches a time limit, does not complete correctly and returns a wrong value.

    it usually finishes in a few seconds, but i read all of your posts, and figured it must be a plugin issue. so i disabled all plugins except podpress, tried the auto detect again, and it took about 45 seconds and came up with the correct value.

    im using a theme from rockettheme (with gantry) and its a bit outdated as my subscription ended in 20111. perhaps that was the issue.

    if you like i could post all the other plugins i had active so you could test where the conflict was.

    anyhow, thank you for all your responses and trouble shooting. this error was completely on my side. my bad.

    🙂

    Thread Starter AliKat

    (@alisondoyle)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    ok wait, so i thought it was it was a plugin issue, but its not.

    one thing is that auto detect is taking longer and the duration values are more than they were before, but everytime i click on it, it does give me a different value.

    I’d be willing to create you an admin account if you’d like to see what’s going on and don’t worry, I’ll donate. In fact, I’ll donate a bit right now, and more if you can fix this for me.

    I’ve also switched my theme to default twenty eleven, but it doesnt seem to have helped.

    Thread Starter AliKat

    (@alisondoyle)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    i just donated and I don’t know what happened there, I’ll put more money in my bank and donate again tomorrow. Im willing to pay a lot more than $8 for some support with this issue. I just entered $8, cause that’s all i had in my paypal, but apparently you only accept echecks anyhow.

    if you send me an email address i can make you an admin account, and i can even get you access to my bluehost account.

    im quite techy myself, while i don’t program, im fluent with html/css, cpanel, etc… so i can also follow instructions very well.

    can you please help me? I really like this plugin.

    One thing Im thinking is that is an old website that was on another domain, which expired, i moved it, resurrected it, and only now im having these issues.

    Thread Starter AliKat

    (@alisondoyle)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    i guess i could do a test with a fresh install, see if that helps.

    Plugin Author ntm

    (@ntm)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    it usually finishes in a few seconds, but i read all of your posts, and figured it must be a plugin issue. so i disabled all plugins except podpress, tried the auto detect again, and it took about 45 seconds and came up with the correct value.

    I haven’t thought that this might be related to other plugins. But if deactivating the other plugins made a difference then I would like to know which other plugin you have running.

    My initial guess was and still is that the max_execution_time limit is a problem. Your files are partially 300-450 MB big and it may take some time to process those files – maybe to much time.

    Since retrieving the duration (or ID3 tag) information from a file is more complex and a problem with it may have one of various reasons, podPress has a debugging mechanism for this part of the plugin.
    Basically you need to define a PHP constant with the value TRUE. If this constant is defined podPress will log all steps during the duration detection process in a .dat file. podPress will save also the time limit value in this file.
    Besides defining the constant the plugin (the script) should be allowed to create and write to the log file. Sometimes this is allowed by default. On other servers it is necessary that the log file folder has the same owner and group as the PHP scripts (or nobody:nogroup).

    A good way to define the constant is to create in the folder /wp-content/plugins/ the sub folder podpress_config/ and create a PHP file with the name pordpress_config.php in this folder. This file may contain this:

    <?php
if ( ! defined( 'PODPRESS_DEBUG_LOG' ) ) { define( 'PODPRESS_DEBUG_LOG', TRUE ); }
?>

    podPress recognise the file and the definition in this file and write all its action into the podpress_log.dat file in the /wp-content/plugins/podpress/ folder.
    If the constant is defined, click on Auto Detect duration and wait until the result is back. Afterwards set the constant to FALSE to prevent unnecessary load and logging actions.

    I would like to see the content of the log file. You may use one of the pastebin services (or send me an email).

    Regards,
    Tim

    btw: I have no donation button. (The one you can find is the one of the original author Dan (seek3r) Kuykendall. Your donations will not reach me.) But I’m here and I will try to help anyway.

    Plugin Author ntm

    (@ntm)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    … but everytime i click on it, it does give me a different value.

    Please, try the auto detection with a smaller file. Maybe the twentyfour.mp3. The duration value of the auto detection should be 58:41. (This value maybe different to the one you can see in one of your audio players. But that is the value I get in my test environment each time I use the auto detect function with this file.)

    tried the auto detect again, and it took about 45 seconds and came up with the correct value.

    Which file was it? Can you reproduce this result?

    Thread Starter AliKat

    (@alisondoyle)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    wow, amazing support, thank you!
    re donation button, i had to search for it on the plugin.

    Im going to try your php file fix, I’ll be in touch with the plugins I was using and whether or not the fix worked for me.

    what is your email? I’d like to send you a donation for your help.

    I’ll be in touch, thank you for keeping this wonderful plugin alive.

    Ali

    Thread Starter AliKat

    (@alisondoyle)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    here are the plugins i had activated:

    Akismet
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    Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

    Version 2.5.6 | By Automattic | Visit plugin site
    Select Allow Shortcodes in Text Widgets
    Allow Shortcodes in Text Widgets
    Activate | Edit | Delete
    This plugin allow the blog-owner to enable/disable the usage of shortcodes in the default text widget provided by WordPress along with smilies if enabled for the blog.

    Version 1.0 | By Robert Wise | Visit plugin site
    Select BackUpWordPress
    BackUpWordPress
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    Simple automated backups of your WordPress powered website. Once activated you’ll find me under Tools → Backups.

    Version 1.6.8 | By Human Made Limited | Visit plugin site
    Select Extended Google Analytics
    Extended Google Analytics
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    With this plugin you can very easely add Google analytics to your website. It will also add tracking events for outbound links and download links.

    Version 1.1 | By Sitebase | Visit plugin site
    Select Gantry Template Framework
    Gantry Template Framework
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    This is a Framework to support easily modifiable themes that are very extensible.

    Version 1.23 | By RocketTheme | Visit plugin site
    Select Gravity Forms
    Gravity Forms
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    Easily create web forms and manage form entries within the WordPress admin.

    Version 1.6.2 | By Rocketgenius Inc. | Visit plugin site
    Select Post Snippets
    Post Snippets
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    Build a library with snippets of HTML, PHP code or reoccurring text that you often use in your posts. Variables to replace parts of the snippet on insert can be used. The snippets can be inserted as-is or as shortcodes.

    Version 2.0 | By Johan Steen | Visit plugin site
    Select RokAjaxSearch
    RokAjaxSearch
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    RokAjaxSearch is a truly powerful plugin that brings fantastic search functionality to WordPress, using the powerful and versatile javascript library, Mootools as well as full Google Search integration.

    Version 1.11 | By RocketTheme, LLC | Visit plugin site
    Select RokBox
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    Select RokNewsPager
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    Select RokTabs
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    RokTabs is a fully independent and incredibly flexible standalone version of the popular theme feature, RokSlide. That being, a widget that displays content in tabs that are scrollable and can rotate automatically.

    Version 1.15 | By RocketTheme, LLC | Visit plugin site
    Select Shortcode Reference
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    This plugin will provide the details about all available shortcodes when you’ll need it most: when you’re editing your content

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    This plugin allows you to create list of terms and assign links to them. Plugin automatically replaces terms occurrences in your posts with appropriate links. You can control the number of replacements. After activation you can create terms list on plugin administration page (Tools -> Terms Descriptions).

    Version 3.0.4 | By Vladimir Statsenko | Visit plugin site
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    Version 1.60 | By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan | Visit plugin site

    Thread Starter AliKat

    (@alisondoyle)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    also i just realized you didnt send me a fix, but a way to log debug data, i’ll do that now.

    Ali

    Thread Starter AliKat

    (@alisondoyle)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    ahh, i see the podcast_config sample file in the directory… ok!

    getting it.

    Thread Starter AliKat

    (@alisondoyle)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    omg, im so bad at this, i just saw you made another post:

    … but everytime i click on it, it does give me a different value.

    Please, try the auto detection with a smaller file. Maybe the twentyfour.mp3. The duration value of the auto detection should be 58:41. (This value maybe different to the one you can see in one of your audio players. But that is the value I get in my test environment each time I use the auto detect function with this file.)

    tried the auto detect again, and it took about 45 seconds and came up with the correct value.

    Which file was it? Can you reproduce this result?

    i tried auto detect on twentyfour: it was 2:44 originally
    then it went to: 100:21
    i tried again and it changed to: 111:41
    the third time it changed to: 88:09

    also, I am confused a bit. I created a new folder: wp-content/plugins/podpress_config

    and added the php file which I named podpress_config.php and it contained this:

    <?php
if ( ! defined( 'PODPRESS_DEBUG_LOG' ) ) { define( 'PODPRESS_DEBUG_LOG', TRUE ); }
?>

    —————————

    i thought that maybe that might be the incorrect directory so I did the same for:
    wp-content/plugins/podpress/podpress_config

    ————————–

    and I don’t see a .dat file anywhere.
    Am I doing this right?

    thanks again for you help.
    Ali

    Thread Starter AliKat

    (@alisondoyle)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    also:

    Which file was it? Can you reproduce this result?

    it was this one:
    http://alikat.ca/chump-n-hounds-06-09-2012/

    and no I can’t reproduce the result exactly, i tried and this time it gave me 133:44

    im going to try to set up another site on a fresh install on a subdomain and see if i am still having this problem.

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