A podcast app testing feed, to help podcast apps test functionality. This contains a number of features and tests for those consuming RSS feeds and data.
You can view this RSS feed at https://podnews.net/api/allheaders-clock-rss (raw link) or follow this link (https://podnews.net/api/allheaders-clock-rss). (HTML link).
Test 18: CHAPTERS: A podcast with every type of chapters
This has ID3 chapters, JSON chapters, Podlove chapters, and kludge-in-description chapters. Which is your podcast app using? Look at the SECOND chapter (at 55 seconds) - if it reads "Interviews: Podcast Day Asia" then it's the ID3 tag, otherwise it'll tell you which versionthis podcast app has defaulted to.
Chapters:
00:00 Podcast Evolution in Asia: Hosts, Apps, and Innovation
00:55 Chapter info is coming from the kludge-in-description simple chapters
23:45 Price increases for hosting
37:58 The Podcast Study
39:32 Acast's WMN acquisition completes
40:34 Acast ads academy
42:49 New data from Livewire
45:53 Live shows
50:07 Events
51:42 The tech stuff
55:03 Interview: Barry from Podhome
1:13:18 The inbox
1:17:59 Sam and James's week
6 Sept 2025
Test 17: CHAPTERS: A podcast with (only) 'kludge in description' chapters
This audio only has 'kludge in description' chapters, which are used by Spotify and YouTube. They're there, just below.
Chapters:
00:00 Podcast Evolution in Asia: Hosts, Apps, and Innovation
00:55 Interviews: Podcast Day Asia
23:45 Price increases for hosting
37:58 The Podcast Study
39:32 Acast's WMN acquisition completes
40:34 Acast ads academy
42:49 New data from Livewire
45:53 Live shows
50:07 Events
51:42 The tech stuff
55:03 Interview: Barry from Podhome
1:13:18 The inbox
1:17:59 Sam and James's week
6 Sept 2025
Test 16: CHAPTERS: A podcast with (only) ID3 chapters
This audio has ID3 chapters in it, but not any podlove or podcast namespace chapters. If you see chapters here but not in tests 14 or 15, that means this podcast app only deals with ID3 chapters.
6 Sept 2025
Test 15: CHAPTERS: A podcast with (only) podlove chapters
This audio has no ID3 chapters in it. It does have Podlove chapters in it though (the psc:chapter tags in the RSS feed). If this show has chapters for this episode, then your podcast app understands the Podlove chapter tag. This format doesn't have links or images.
6 Sept 2025
Test 14: CHAPTERS: A podcast with (only) podcast:chapters
This audio has no ID3 chapters in it. However, it has a podcast:chapters file linked to it. If chapters appear for this episode, then the podcast app understands the podcast chapters tag. The chapters JSON includes images and links, by the way.
26 Aug 2025
PodClock - when was this episode downloaded?
When was this episode downloaded? The audio will give you the time and day of the audio download.
3 May 2021
Test 1: Your useragent and RSS scraper details
What does this app, and the RSS scraper, say it is? (Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; RSS Reader))
3 May 2021
Test 2: Opus audio
Can your device play Opus audio?
3 May 2021
Test 3: AAC-HE audio
The audio in here is AAC-HE.
3 May 2021
Test 4: An HTML description, with NO itunes:summary
Test 2 is for Opus; Test 3 for AAC. This is test 4.
3 May 2021
Test 5: A very long (text) description
This is quite a long description.
3 May 2021
Test 6: An itunes:image for an episode, but not embedded
This tests non-embedded images
3 May 2021
Test 7: An embedded image in the audio, but no itunes:image
This tests images embedded in the AAC file
3 May 2021
Test 8: A normal description, and a content:encoded too
This is a normal description, with some bold and italic HTML, in a CDATA wrapper - it has no itunes:summary, and we see this appearing in the episode list in Apple Podcasts
3 May 2021
Test 9: It's the 31st of the month
This episode's audio and GUID remain the same, but the title and this description are updated every day. This was last updated on 31st August. This should theoretically update every time: but hopefully we shouldn't see more than one of these.
3 May 2021
Test 10: This is the normal title
This is the itunes:summary
3 May 2021
Test 11: This is a trailer
This is the itunes:summary
3 May 2021
Test 13: This is a test podcast with a location tag about a water reservoir
This uses the podcast:location tag to suggest that it is about this place in Bardon, Queensland, Australia: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/283389652
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
4 ratings
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