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puck2

Lately, I've found that the RSS feeds for the LTB Network have a bug. New episodes show up but they don't download... they show up as "null." IS anyone else having this problem? Should I resubscribe to a different RSS feed?

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  • adam

    So, I want to appologize for this issue and explain what's happening.

    Basically, LTBN's podcast feeds have been hitting their capacity limits of 15,000 downloads per day on quite a lot of days for the last month or two. This issue is because when we built the LTBN, we built it on top of Soundcloud - All podcasters post to their own soundcloud account and then the website combines everything together into different RSS feeds. When we built it, Soundcloud has no download cap. Then they added one, and for a long time it didnt matter because we were under the cap, and now it matters a lot because we're hitting the cap regularly. Soundcloud does not let us pay more or take any other actions to increase our limit.

    From a technical perspective, this is not a small problem - We have to redo our system and change our backend + whole process.

    From your perspective, it's really annoying - The way you get around it for the time being is to play the podcast episodes on the episode page using the embedded soundcloud player, going to the episodes soundcloud page, or downloading it via the episodes soundcloud page.

    We are working on resolving the issue, but it's not going to be immediate.

    Thanks,

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