Blubrry PowerPress was updated to version 3.0, from version 2.0.4. Changelog:
- Released on 2/10/2012
- PowerPress now requires WordPress version 3.0 or newer.
- New Meta Marks feature
- Media duration detection and verification now supports AAC .m4a audio and H.264 .mp4/.m4v video (in addition to mpeg3 .mp3). Media duration detection now requires PHP 5.0.5 or newer.
- Added new ‘Disable Warnings’ option for Podcast Entry Box. Errors are still displayed.
- Media verification (Verify button) no longer warns if mp3 Channel mode is mono.
- Media verification (Verify button) now verifies that the media URL’s content type is valid when detecting duration information.
- Media verification (Verify button) now displays the link to the media upon error so user can test URL manually.
- Media verification (Verify button) now includes a more readable message when URL returns 404 file not found.
- Added new Feed Discovery option, Adds “feed discovery” links to your web site’s headers allowing web browsers and feed readers to auto-detect your podcast feeds.
- Removed iTunes update iTunes listing logic, it is pretty obvious Apple does not plan on restoring the ping which Apple took offline in February of 2011.
- Added warning in settings that podcast feed is invalid until create at least one podcast episode.
- Warning now displayed if a Media Embed is entered but no Media URL is present.
- Removed third party JSON library, no longer needed for WP versions 2.9+.
- Podcast Channels can now be associated with specific Custom Post Types of type ‘post’.
- Added option to upload/change HTML5 audio and video play icons. Video play icon must be 60 x 60 pixels in size. Audio play icon has no size restrictions.
- Added link to WordPress Settings to PowerPress basic setings, This is to resolve the many complains we receive by new users who cannot find PowerPress settings menu.
- Fixed bug with ID3 tag writing feature not functioning correctly. (Thanks Dave from School of Podcasting for reporting the problem)
- Fixed bug detected latest versoin of iPad for displaying the HTML5 player.
- Flow Player Classic now displays full screen button when playing video.
- Romanian translation for v2.0.4+ added by Alexander Ovsov (Thanks Alexander!)
- Italian translation for v2.0.4+ by Umberto (thanks Umberto!)
- Fixed a number of PHP notice messages when in WP_DEBUG mode. (Thanks Jeremy Clarke for introducing us to the Debug Bar plugin!)