Comments on: PowerPress Podcast Plugin for WordPress Receives Major Update! http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/ Updating, educating, and engaging our podcasting community. Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: angelo http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-30530 angelo Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:25:37 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-30530 We do not offer uploading directly in PowerPress to your own WordPress install because there are thousands of web hosting companies with limitations setup in PHP with upload file size limits typically between 1-4MB in size. We cannot possibly provide the functionality reliability for large media files in a PHP WordPress plugin. If you are familiar with your web hosting provider, you should be familiar with FTP, which would be the preferred method for uploading large files mainly because it has built-in resume feature. The reason you would use Blubrry podcast media hosting is if <u>you do exceeding your web hosting's bandwidth</u>. I hope this makes sense. We do not offer uploading directly in PowerPress to your own WordPress install because there are thousands of web hosting companies with limitations setup in PHP with upload file size limits typically between 1-4MB in size. We cannot possibly provide the functionality reliability for large media files in a PHP WordPress plugin.

If you are familiar with your web hosting provider, you should be familiar with FTP, which would be the preferred method for uploading large files mainly because it has built-in resume feature.

The reason you would use Blubrry podcast media hosting is if you do exceeding your web hosting’s bandwidth. I hope this makes sense.

]]> By: Sharron Clemons http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-30528 Sharron Clemons Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:20:08 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-30528 Your software is very cool. However your example about podcasters exceeding thier bandwidth is a lame excuse! Yes, I am sure happens, but it is certainly not the norm. If you guys choose not to offer it because you want that just for your hosted customers, then great, just say so. Don't make up some vield excuse about your podcast might get too popular. Great job, Keep up the good work! Your software is very cool. However your example about podcasters exceeding thier bandwidth is a lame excuse! Yes, I am sure happens, but it is certainly not the norm. If you guys choose not to offer it because you want that just for your hosted customers, then great, just say so. Don’t make up some vield excuse about your podcast might get too popular. Great job, Keep up the good work!

]]> By: angelo http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-21840 angelo Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:20:39 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-21840 The MP3 ID3 tagging feature is only available to those who are Blubrry.com media hosting customers. All you have to do is go into PowerPress menu > Tags page and select the first option to "disable mp3 ID3 tagging". If you're not a paying hosting customer, then something else is causing your tags to be rewritten. Keep in mind that if you're looking at your media in iTunes, the iTunes application will rewrite the tags unless you turn the feature off. This is why we recommend that you first prefix your blog post titles with the episode number, as both the file name and the title ID3 tag will be re-written by iTunes with the blog post title. The MP3 ID3 tagging feature is only available to those who are Blubrry.com media hosting customers. All you have to do is go into PowerPress menu > Tags page and select the first option to “disable mp3 ID3 tagging”. If you’re not a paying hosting customer, then something else is causing your tags to be rewritten.

Keep in mind that if you’re looking at your media in iTunes, the iTunes application will rewrite the tags unless you turn the feature off. This is why we recommend that you first prefix your blog post titles with the episode number, as both the file name and the title ID3 tag will be re-written by iTunes with the blog post title.

]]> By: Angela http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-21839 Angela Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:09:00 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-21839 The new PowerPress plugin is OVERWRITING my MP3 ID3 tags. I don't want it to do this. I have changed the settings to Simple, but it still overwrites the ID3 tags. While this is a nice feature for some, others may want to maintain the ID3 tags they've set in the file. Any suggestions? The new PowerPress plugin is OVERWRITING my MP3 ID3 tags. I don’t want it to do this. I have changed the settings to Simple, but it still overwrites the ID3 tags. While this is a nice feature for some, others may want to maintain the ID3 tags they’ve set in the file. Any suggestions?

]]> By: Ray http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-21793 Ray Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:21:35 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-21793 Nice work guys. Are you going to give the future ability to self host? Noah Nice work guys. Are you going to give the future ability to self host?

Noah

]]> By: Buccaneer Dan http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-21728 Buccaneer Dan Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:12:07 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-21728 Ok, I am sold. I will be switching from my server this week to have you guys host us. Dan. Ok, I am sold. I will be switching from my server this week to have you guys host us.

Dan.

]]> By: Todd http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-21727 Todd Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:30:08 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-21727 It goes beyond bandwidth. The majority of shared hosting accounts cannot handle any substantial downloads numbers. If your show is small you may be ok. But all it takes is a single link from a popular site to bring either you site to it's knees because to many people are trying to download your podcast, or you exceed the server memory allowance for you shared hosting account. There are valid horror stories about people ending up with hosting bills in the thousands of dollars for exceeding there bandwidth limitations. The reason we know this, is because once upon a time there where no companies like ours and others that offered hosting based on monthly storage levels and we all had to deal with the consequences of paying for every GB downloaded. It goes beyond bandwidth. The majority of shared hosting accounts cannot handle any substantial downloads numbers. If your show is small you may be ok.

But all it takes is a single link from a popular site to bring either you site to it’s knees because to many people are trying to download your podcast, or you exceed the server memory allowance for you shared hosting account.

There are valid horror stories about people ending up with hosting bills in the thousands of dollars for exceeding there bandwidth limitations.

The reason we know this, is because once upon a time there where no companies like ours and others that offered hosting based on monthly storage levels and we all had to deal with the consequences of paying for every GB downloaded.

]]> By: Buccaneer Dan http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-21726 Buccaneer Dan Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:35:59 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-21726 Your software is very cool. However your example about podcasters exceeding thier bandwidth is a lame excuse! Yes, I am sure happens, but it is certainly not the norm. If you guys choose not to offer it because you want that just for your hosted customers, then great, just say so. Don't make up some vield excuse about your podcast might get too popular. Great job, Keep up the good work! Your software is very cool. However your example about podcasters exceeding thier bandwidth is a lame excuse! Yes, I am sure happens, but it is certainly not the norm.

If you guys choose not to offer it because you want that just for your hosted customers, then great, just say so. Don’t make up some vield excuse about your podcast might get too popular.

Great job, Keep up the good work!

]]> By: Todd http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-21724 Todd Sat, 30 May 2009 16:53:53 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-21724 At this time the "Media Url popup" is tied to the Blubrry Podcast Services. Being that the majority of podcasters do not host there media on the same website that they host their blog we have not added that feature. I would caution you on doing that because many podcaster have ended up with large hosting bills. All it takes is one show to be popular and you would exceeed the capacity of your hosting account to handle delivery of the file and rack up expensive overage charges. Some podcaster have had their hosting accounts canceled. Blubrry offers extensive podcast stats for free that go way beyond anything anyone else is providing. If you want truly accurate stats then we encourage you to sign up for a free account. Having used podpress before we had our own plugin I can tell you from personal experience the stats in podpress are not accurate. Todd.. At this time the “Media Url popup” is tied to the Blubrry Podcast Services.

Being that the majority of podcasters do not host there media on the same website that they host their blog we have not added that feature. I would caution you on doing that because many podcaster have ended up with large hosting bills.

All it takes is one show to be popular and you would exceeed the capacity of your hosting account to handle delivery of the file and rack up expensive overage charges. Some podcaster have had their hosting accounts canceled.

Blubrry offers extensive podcast stats for free that go way beyond anything anyone else is providing. If you want truly accurate stats then we encourage you to sign up for a free account. Having used podpress before we had our own plugin I can tell you from personal experience the stats in podpress are not accurate.

Todd..

]]> By: Ben http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-21723 Ben Thu, 28 May 2009 22:59:17 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-21723 The only thing I dont like about the new plugin is you have to use the blubrry hosting service when you want to add a media url using the new feature you talked about. I would rather like to be able to select the media on my own host or service I'm using. Thanks and I will continue to use this plugin. The only thing I dont like about the new plugin is you have to use the blubrry hosting service when you want to add a media url using the new feature you talked about. I would rather like to be able to select the media on my own host or service I’m using.
Thanks and I will continue to use this plugin.

]]> By: the Ramen Noodle http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-21722 the Ramen Noodle Thu, 28 May 2009 12:19:46 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-21722 Does the "Media URL" popup also work for self-hosted files, or is it limited to media hosted with Blubrry? These are great improvements, but I still haven't been convinced to move away from PodPress. Let me tell you the only two things keeping me on PodPress at the moment: Easy media-linking. I upload my media to a folder on my site, and it appears in a drop-down list on my post edit page. Thorough stats. This is the big one. I want to see how many people downloaded my podcast via RSS, how many listened to it with the online player, and how many manually downloaded the file. Does the “Media URL” popup also work for self-hosted files, or is it limited to media hosted with Blubrry?

These are great improvements, but I still haven’t been convinced to move away from PodPress. Let me tell you the only two things keeping me on PodPress at the moment:

Easy media-linking. I upload my media to a folder on my site, and it appears in a drop-down list on my post edit page.
Thorough stats. This is the big one. I want to see how many people downloaded my podcast via RSS, how many listened to it with the online player, and how many manually downloaded the file.

]]> By: Adam http://blog.blubrry.com/2009/05/27/powerpress-podcast-plugin-for-wordpress-receives-major-update/comment-page-1/#comment-21721 Adam Thu, 28 May 2009 07:03:48 +0000 http://blog.blubrry.com/?p=505#comment-21721 This update is earth shattering. All I can do is sit back and saw wow. The implications of what you have created here is very clear. No other podcasting company would dare podcasters to control their own destiny, yet at the same time integrate a hosting option this way.. I was happy making money from your ad deals now I can see I am going to have to give Libsyn the old boot. They should have thought of this. Major Home Run! Adam This update is earth shattering. All I can do is sit back and saw wow. The implications of what you have created here is very clear.

No other podcasting company would dare podcasters to control their own destiny, yet at the same time integrate a hosting option this way..

I was happy making money from your ad deals now I can see I am going to have to give Libsyn the old boot. They should have thought of this.

Major Home Run!
Adam

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