Bug report for PocketCasts

I use Pocket Casts on my Samsung Galaxy S5 to listen to podcasts, and I love it! There is a podcast that I am having problems in getting the latest podcasts in the feed. Ironically, it is the feed for Dave Winer’s Scripting News weblog, the inventor of podcasting! Here is a bug report, hopefully Shifty Jelly can look into this.

Here’s the bug report (per this format):

1. What I did

I selected the Discover option in Pocket Casts, tapped the magnifying glass in the upper right corner, and entered the feed URL (http://scripting.com/rss.xml) into the text box. Pocket Casts then showed this screen:

The podcast that is shown at the top is from 2015 (Silos Vs. The Internet). I was able to download this and play it.

2. What I expected to happen

I thought that Pocket Casts would read the feed URL and collect the current podcasts referenced in this feed (at 1:09PM PST on June 30, 2018, there was one podcast in the feed, dated June 28, 2018).

3. What actually happened

Pocket Casts read some feed that was not the current feed for the URL and provided a list of podcasts that were quite old.

I took a look at the feed given above and my weblog feed (http://andysylvester.com/feed/) and I did notice one difference between them. My feed as a mp3 file as an enclosure, but the Scripting News feed has a m4a file. The mime type is the same (audio/mpeg). Maybe the Scripting News feed should have a different audio type (audio/mp4, perhaps). However, the file plays in Google Chrome.

Shifty Jelly, let’s hear from you!