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PodClock - a podcast app testing feed

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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. (HTML link).
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PodClock - when was this episode downloaded?

When was this episode downloaded? The audio will give you the time and day of the audio download. On a technical level, this episode does not change GUID nor audio filename, and you should therefore only see it once in your feed. The pubDate is updated every time the RSS is edited. This is Season 2, Episode 1 of this serial podcast.

Dec 03, 20259 secSeason 2Ep. 1

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 ...

Sep 06, 20251 hr 24 minSeason 1Ep. 18

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 Ja...

Sep 06, 20251 hr 24 minSeason 1Ep. 17

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.

Sep 06, 20251 hr 24 minSeason 1Ep. 16

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.

Sep 06, 20251 hr 24 minSeason 1Ep. 15

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.

Sep 06, 20251 hr 24 minSeason 1Ep. 14

Test 1: Your useragent and RSS scraper details

You can view this RSS feed at https://podnews.net/clock-rss This RSS feed was last downloaded at Sun, 03 May 2026 13:00:23 +0000 The audio for this episode will give the same details as below, but for the audio. This feed was parsed by: User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Metacast/1.0 +metacast.app) IP address: 2600:1900:0:2d0b::e01 In country: US We do not recognise this useragent as a podcast aggregator. We would serve MP3 to this useragent....

May 03, 202125 secSeason 1Ep. 1

Test 2: Opus audio

This is a piece of Opus Audio, at 32kbps. It is a specific codec for high quality speech at low bitrates, and is normally supported on Android devices.

May 03, 202124 secSeason 1Ep. 2

Test 3: AAC-HE audio

This is a piece of AAC Audio, at 32kbps (stereo). AAC-HE audio, which almost everything should decode, is supported by almost everything - at least, the standard AAC decoder is. The decoder normally comes for free with any video decoding. This low-bitrate version sounds a bit splashy with the audio; but 64kbps sounds pretty good.

May 03, 202149 secSeason 1Ep. 3

Test 4: An HTML description, with NO itunes:summary

(If you don't see Test 2, your device does not support Opus audio). (If you don't see Test 3, your device does not support AAC audio). This has no itunes:summary in it, These are all paragraphs. The word bold is in bold. The word italic is in italic. The words bold and italic are in bold and italic This is underlined. This is a UL-LI list item This is another item This is a link to Podnews This is a raw link to Podnews: https://podnews.net This is some text not in a P section. This is some more ...

May 03, 202124 secSeason 1Ep. 4

Test 5: A very long (text) description

001 This is supposed to be one hundred characters long and I hope I can make it all the way to 100. 002 Each line here is supposed to be 100 characters long (there's a line return though) and so..... 003 There are also supposed to be 100 lines here. 100x100 = 10,000 characters. Will we make it????? 004 This is supposed to be one hundred characters long and I hope I can make it all the way to 100. 005 This is supposed to be one hundred characters long and I hope I can make it all the way to 100. ...

May 03, 202124 secSeason 1Ep. 5

Test 9: It's the 3rd 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 3rd May. This should theoretically update every time: but hopefully we shouldn't see more than one of these.

May 03, 20213 minSeason 1Ep. 9
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