Space Forum / Shuttle / August 2007

In a way we are all "blind" here Brian, because we do not know which
podcast you are referring to or what software you are using. I did some
digging because this intrigued me, hope you find the following helpful...

There is a podcast titled "Science@NASA" advertised at

 http://science.nasa.gov/podcast.htm

which indeed has an article titled "Of Skunks and Telescopes". However if
you subscribe to the Podcast XML you would not see that three links are
offered with this article: one to an MP3 file, one to an M3U playlist for
streaming (such a playlist is nothing but a simple text file with a URL
for the MP3) and one to a transcript file in HTML. It is on the webpage
mentioned above but not in the Podcast "feed".

The link to the MP3 is this:

 http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2007_xrcf_story.mp3

and it is indeed dead. It gives a very ugly "this file cannot be found"
page when you try it in a web browser. I assume this is where your
Podcast software fails, too. Someone obviously made a mistake there.
However the link to the playlist works, you can open it in a media player
or web browser:

 http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/images/xrcf/audio/story.m3u

The playlist points to:

 http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/images/xrcf/audio/story.mp3

you can open that directly, too (or download it first). Note it is a
different location than the one given for the Podcast MP3.

The transcript can be found at:

 http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/10aug_xrcf.htm

Oh, and I tried those before I started typing this message, and now only
a few minutes later the server does not respond at all anymore when I try
those links again (except the playlist, that still works).

So either someone is working on it or... not.

I susbcribe and have this episode.  Perhaps you need to dlete the sub
and re-subscribe?