Title: Audio source URL empty
Last modified: April 13, 2022

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# Audio source URL empty

 *  [starepod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/starepod/)
 * (@starepod)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/audio-source-url-empty/)
 * I’m trying to embed a podcast from the Media Library using the shortcode, and
   a post ID, and get the following error when trying to play the podcast: “Network
   Issue
    Couldn’t load the audio files from the server. Maybe you don’t have connectivity
   to the internet or the host is not available.”
 * I looked at the source code generated by the plugin, and the ‘audio’ object is
   basically empty. It looks like:
 *     ```
       "audio":[{
         "mimeType":null,
         "url":"",
         "size":null,
         "title":""
       }]
       ```
   
 * The plugin version is 5.5.0, the WordPress version is 5.9.3
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Faudio-source-url-empty%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [starepod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/starepod/)
 * (@starepod)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/audio-source-url-empty/#post-15579236)
 * I realize now that I expected the plugin to work in a way that it was not intended
   to. Sorry, not really up on podcast technology.
 * I dug through the code and was able to make the shortcode work with an attachment
   post ID by adding around eight short lines of code in one function.
 * While I’m confident that you and your team could figure it out yourself if you
   wanted to, I’d be happy to share my solution, if only to get your input on a 
   better one.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/audio-source-url-empty/#post-15579236)
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