New episode titles are not available

[liferadioat]

Hi,

we´re using op3 quite a while. Since january 2024 there a no new episodes listed at our podcast https://op3.dev/show/fbca525b-211a-5003-ab5c-131a7430b97b although we´re releasing a new episode every month. Is there any problem / bug with op3? How can we ensure that all downloads are tracked correctly?

This is our feed: https://truecrime.at/feed/mp3/

Thanks for help.

[johnspurlock-skymethod]

Hi there - this can sometimes happen if multiple OP3 shows contain the same episodes, do you have any other feeds that contain the same episodes? OP3 is conservative in this case and does not allocated to either show to avoid double counting.

I'll take a look on my side - don't worry as long as you have the prefix in your feed no download stats are lost, just temporarily unallocated.

[liferadioat]

Prior we had https://truecrime.at/feed/mobile/ which is redirecting to the https://truecrime.at/feed/mp3/ feed url. The only other feed is https://audio.liferadio.at/show/spurderverbrechen/feed/mp3/, which has the same first episode (trailer).

[liferadioat]

I´ve deleted the old feed with the trailer episode (https://audio.liferadio.at/show/spurderverbrechen/feed/mp3/) now, but I don´t think, that this was problem.

[johnspurlock-skymethod]

thanks, I'll take a look

[johnspurlock-skymethod]

So in this case, it was due to the fact that the enclosure urls had spaces in the names, and the way your host generates the enclosure urls inside the RSS feed in this case (they were not escaped). Although that's not typical, it's something OP3 should be able to identify and workaround to improve its matching.

I deployed that workaround yesterday and reran stats going back to June 1st for your show (and others that had a similar problem). Rerunning stats like this takes a while, I'll try to rerun going back even further as time permits to pick up any other previously unallocated downloads that should be matched to your show.

Feel free to reach out via email or here asap if something doesn't look right, as rerunning after the fact is a fairly time- and resource-intensive process.

Hope that helps!

[liferadioat]

Thanks a lot - if your test succeeds the stats should be regenerated from the beginning of this year if it´s possible.