iTunes downloads

phil
September 02, 2008, 01:13 PM posted in General Discussion

Has there been some changes? My iTunes has decided to download 235 duplicated podcasts today, pdf's, reviews and dialogues for the last 80 or so lessons, mostly dated 1 day before the original podcast.

Whilst I'm here, the RSS conversations feeds still don't work many weeks after the last upgrade, any intention to make them work?

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frances
September 02, 2008, 05:35 PM

I don't think there's been any official announcement about changes with the personal feeds. Clearly some of the existing feeds are acting strangely. A lot of my old lessons tried to download fresh copies of the PDFs and Audio Review files. For the most recent lesson the PDF link in my feed seems to be broken. On my "Me" page the URL for my personal feed has either been scrambled, or it is now employing security-by-obscurity.

How much of this is intended change, and how much is growing pains from the update? Should I expect my personal feed to recover, or should I unsubscribe and resubscribe to the new URL?

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billglover
September 02, 2008, 08:05 PM

I've noticed a similar problem. iTunes is now full of duplicate lessons. Am tempted to unsubscribe, delete everything and then resubscribe.

Any suggestions?

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billglover
September 03, 2008, 10:37 AM

Phil, did you find a solution to this?

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phil
September 03, 2008, 11:24 AM

Bill, no response from cpod regarding the problem, I've just deleted the 235 duplicates so far. I noticed in a comment from Bazza under the new video lesson that the personal feed URL has changed. Maybe something related to that. The video feed has been added to the list of options, and had aleady been ticked, but with my original URL it indeed had not downloaded. In the time I had last night I didn't find a way to update the URL in iTunes.

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matthiask
September 03, 2008, 11:36 AM

Facing the same problem here.
I tackled it by marking everything as studied except the really latest sessions.

Still, I'm struggling, how to change the RSS feed entry within Itunes to the new adress

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joannah
September 03, 2008, 11:39 AM

I've set mine to not automatically download the lessons because duplicate lessons often show up in the feed and i can't afford to download it all twice

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frances
September 04, 2008, 07:39 PM

bump.

I know that the changes to the feeds are probably still in flux, but it would be great if someone from Praxis could give us a general idea of the plan for the feed changes.

My feed is still acting oddly, and I don't know whether I should make changes in my iTunes, or just wait for someone there to fix it.