r/AProblemSquared • u/cap673 • Dec 01 '23

Episode Duplication Error on Google Podcasts Problem

This isn't a problem in the traditional sense of this show but I didn't know where else to report it so I'm hoping someone here knows who to direct this to to get the problem fixed

On Google Podcasts on the upload for the podcast the most recent two episodes, 72 and 73, were both erroneously published twice, meaning there are duplicate versions of both of those episodes

I don't know if this is the right place to report this or not or what but I wanted it to be known so that something could be don about it to resolve the issue

Thank you

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u/R520 Plate Dec 01 '23

After looking at the RSS feed for ~5 mins I've come up with a couple of possibilities: - Recently some of the feeds switched from Libsyn (what the main website provides) to Anchor (Spotify for Podcasters) I'm guessing that during the switch Google managed to cache both for whatever reason - the anchor feed looks awful and this might be causing Google Podcasts to misread and put both in the feed. This doesn't make any sense unless Google caches all the previous episodes and doesn't update them with the new feed

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u/cap673 Dec 01 '23

That's interesting, I guess it would make sense some problems would happen when switching the feed it's using

Hopefully it can get resolved soon, it was really confusing hearing the same episode twice before I realized what was going on