Podcasting: <itunes:duration> tag missing from Podcast Feed

[sudeepbaral]

Quick summary

Customer's recent podcast feed does not have tag and instead have two tags.

All the other podcasts on their site have the valid tag and a single tag

Steps to reproduce

1. Provide podcast feed from WordPress.com dashboard (Manage > Settings > Writing)
2. Open Apple Podcasts, open "Follow a show by URL" and enter the podcast feed and click on "Follow"
3. The recent podcast episodes do not show duration of the podcast while the older podcasts from 16th May and beyond that do show the duration of the podcast

Podcast feed is deemed valid when checked on http://validator.w3.org/feed/

What you expected to happen

The duration of all the recent podcast episode should have been visible like the older ones.

What actually happened

The podcast episodes from 25th May, 4th June and 16th June do not show the duration.

Impact

One

Available workarounds?

No but the platform is still usable

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Simple

Logs or notes

[ClassicRKR27]

It looks like this may be a similar situation here, but it is affecting multiple podcast players including PocketCasts: 8631464-zd-a8c

This is a screenshot of what I'm seeing in PocketCasts:

And here is a link to the validation checker I used which is showing quite a few errors, though I am not sure how many of these are "known": https://www.castfeedvalidator.com/validate.php?url=https://lecarrecast.com/category/podcast/feed/

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[ezebecke]

Another report on 8930781-zen Podcast missing Itunes duration tag