Hello @tenleftfingers,
The photos you have do not look like iTunes or the iOS podcast app by Apple. Can you tell me what app you are using so I can take a look there?
What I do see looks correct, the formatted web links you see will appear in iOS podcast app. The Desktop app uses the itunes:summary, which should strip those HTML tags.
Can you share the feed URL and iTunes listing so I can look at what is happening in the feed?
Thanks,
Angelo
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It’s the first thing I should have included, apologies. Here it is: http://amigausers.ie/feed/podcast/
The app I was using is Podbird, on Ubuntu Touch. I can see the code in the feed too unfortunately.
Hello @tenleftfingers,
I took a look at your latest episode (the show notes) found here: http://amigausers.ie/episode-5-petflix/ and then how they appear on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amiga-ireland-podcast/id1217399520?mt=2, the data looks correct to me actually. The web links in your blog posts are literally text on the page. I did check the feed though and the summary simply removes the HTML markup, but since the link themselves are visible in the post they are also visible in the episode show notes.
One thing you can do, which may not be desired for your work flow, is enter a customized iTunes summary per episode to override this. Keep in mind though that the content:encoded (what is saved in your blog post content) is used for the iOS podcast app, and what you are doing as-is is fine in my opinion for that, the problem merely lies with the itunes:summary which if you wanted you could override how that appears with PowerPress settings.
Thanks,
Angelo
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Thanks Angelo. Did you notice how the urls have a < and > at either end? This is the markup I’m talking about in my screenshot. It’s been picked up by some aggregators too like here: https://www.ivoox.com/episode-5-petflix-audios-mp3_rf_19654865_1.html
It doesn’t appear in the show notes you linked too. But as you point out, it doesn’t appear in the iTunes summary. I’m a bit confused at this point. Since it looks okay in iTunes, I should probably just assume it’s the clients that are having difficulty. Either way, I should close this thread since Powerpress is doing its job and getting the feed to iTunes, with proper formatting.
Hello @tenleftfingers,
I would reach out to the Android app developer for that podcast app you mentioned, I suspect they are adding <> around links they find in the itunes summary or content:encoded fields.
Also, are you using any other sources for your podcast feed, such as FeedBurner? IT may be that another service is converting the links for you without your knowledge.
Also I think the open source podcast apps all share an open podcast directory (rather than use your feed directly), not 100% sure.
Thanks,
Angelo
