PodClock - a podcast app testing feed

PodClock - a podcast app testing feed

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).

Episodes

May 3, 2021 3 mins
This uses the podcast:location tag to suggest that it is about this place in Bardon, Queensland, Australia: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/283389652
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This is the trailer, and is marked as such
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May 3, 2021 3 mins
This is the normal description - there is no content:encoded here
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This episode's audio and GUID remain the same, but the title and this description are updated every day. This was last updated on 26th October. This should theoretically update every time: but hopefully we shouldn't see more than one of these.
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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
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The enclosed audio, which is in AAC format, has an embedded image in it of some scissors. There is no itunes:image referencing it though.
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This has an itunes:image associated with it, of some red scissors. However, the audio does not have the image embedded in it.
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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 hund...
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(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 ...

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May 3, 2021 49 secs

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.

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May 3, 2021 24 secs

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.

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You can view this RSS feed at https://podnews.net/clock-rss

This RSS feed was last downloaded at Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:43:47 +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 (Linux;) AppleWebKit/ Chrome/ Safari - iHeartRadio
IP address: 34.224.125.42
In country: US

We think this was parsed by: i...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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-descr...
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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.

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