I’ve been using the podcast section of plex daily and to my surprise today discovered one of my podcasts was missing.
I’ve tried re-adding manually via all of its available links (Main website/RSS feed/Apple Podcast/Pocketcast etc.) and the web version of Plex gives me a generic “Something went wrong. Make sure the URL is correct and try again.”
Trying again, refreshing, updating the server, re-signing in etc. did not resolve it.
I tried re-adding manually from the android app and there it looks like it starts to load as the podcast image flashes up, but then it goes to a “Media Unavailable” page where is says the “The file associated with this item is not accessible by the server. Please verify that the file exists and the necessary drive is accessible.”
I’m on web version: 4.56.4
Plex desktop version: 1.23.0.4497
Android version: 8.16.2.24953
There is one alternate site -thejvclub.org where it will load the 20 most recent episodes via manual url add, but nothing older from the podcast loads nor does any image art.
I’ve checked most of the recent threads and tried just about everything else on my end I can think of. Is this a bug?
All my other previously manually added podcasts are all still there and working fine.
Thoughts? Flowers? Chocolates? Promises not intended to be kept?
Can confirm that those ones won’t manually add into my Plex either.
The alternate set of episodes that I did manage to load from thejvclub.org also doesn’t update (though I think it’s because the site is not using a true rss feed or similar)
Best guess there’s something on Plex’s end that maybe got corrupted or “stuck” preventing a re-add to their catalogue. Hopefully they’ll take notice and find a fix.
Generate an OPML file that includes the problematic RSS feed. In my case, this was Knowledge Fight
In Plex, click ‘Add Podcast by URL’
Choose ‘Import podcasts from an OPML file instead’
Choose the OPML file you generated
Click ‘Continue’
You should see the problematic podcast feed included in your podcasts.
Good luck.
Original post, no longer working:
I experienced the same issue with Knowledge Fight – it disappeared, and I was unable to add it back. I checked their RSS feed against a few validators, and found issues with the XML.
I was able to re-add Knowledge Fight by running their feed through an RSS scrubber and subscribing to the scrubbed feed. This URL points to the scrubbed feed:
I ran the validator on <![CDATA[TechLinked]]> , everything came back green, did say the image was a bit large, other than that it was all good. Still get an error when trying to add it to Podcasts.
Well the scrubbed feed didn’t update with new episodes and the initial rss scrubber site is down so now I’m back to square one with this podcast behaving problematically in plex.
The feed link ( simplecast.com/kBSmSDEr ) validates in Cast Feed Validator and other validators (it mentions the episode descriptions exceed the length requirements for itunes, but not sure if that matters).
Also not sure if it makes a difference, but it looks like its formatted as an Atom feed vs old school RSS.
I tried manual import with various url combos incase directly pointing to RSS/Atom made a difference (it didn’t) and exporting/importing via OPML instead and that failed to manually re-add too.
If I add the podcast via thejvclub.org url Plex somehow remembers where I left off as it correctly showed only the most recent 7 episodes were unplayed (though the unplayed badge in the upper right says there are only 6).
Removing the original feed and re-adding via search instead of trying to re-add manually has it load art and old episodes like it originally had, but it also only showed the last 3 episodes as unplayed (which is what it had before it stopped updating) and is missing the latest episodes from June so is probably still not updating?
This podcast works fine in the other many apps/programs it’s associated with just not in Plex anymore even after applying any available recent app updates.
Yeah, I’m having this as well with the Rev left radio podcast. It disappeared and I can’t readd.
Generally passes the Cast Feed Validator as well, it’s even part of the libsyn.com RSS aggregator
