This is actually just a test. I’m having a rough day. Right now I’m running an experiment on why files are not playing on devices but are in iTunes when using podPress.
Update: In case you’re wondering what this was all about…I was working on a problem that [] was having with podcasts being able to download in iTunes but failing in devices. After some experimentation and research, we’ve finally determined that the problem is due to a configuration at the server level in which the host was not accepting byte-range requests. A byte-range request is a method that allows the requester to ask for a specific segment of a download rather than the whole. Because of the nature of podcasting, this is a requirement of iTunes. Apparently at some point, the config was disabled on the server.
Anyway, the symptom of this problem is files not downloading to an iPhone/iPod/iPad directly (gives you an error) but does download in iTunes on a desktop. It is not a problem of a podcast publishing plugin, such as podPress or Blurbby, though apparently it can be problematic if you use the media uploader in WordPress to put the files on a server (use FTP instead). Anyway, hope that if you’re having this problem it helps.
