New feed url tag

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New feed url tag

Hello,

I just migrated my feeds from Feedburner.com to feedburner.google.com
(basically I need to change my podcast feed url from feeds.feedburner.com/url to feedproxy.google.com/url.

I tried adding the <itunes:new-feed-url> tag in my wordpress install but no matter what I did I always obtained a parsing error from feedburner AND itunes.

iTunes would say the feed URL was not valid. Also using feed validation tools would spit it out as invalid.

Even tried bypassing the wordpress altogether by creating a static xml file just to try but using the <itunes:new-feed-url> always failed.

I used this tag a few years ago when I moved from the wordpress URL's to Feedburner, and it all went smoothly.

What am I doing wrong here? Doesn't itunes accept their own custom tags anymore?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo Santa Rosa 2.4 ghz 4gb ram 160gb hdd + iMac 2.2ghz, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 18, 2008 2:36 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 18, 2008 3:10 PM in response to Jose M Olaya

It sounds as if there is a problem with the URL or the way it's served rather than the tag itself. Do you feel like posting the URL of the old feed?

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Jose M Olaya Author

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Nov 18, 2008 3:32 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

but I tried with the static feed and it didn't help either.

The statics feeds are:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/112449/test.xml (which doesn't have the new-feed-url tag)

and

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/112449/test2.xml (which does the tag)

the only difference between the two files is the new-feed-url tag and the second one just gives out an feed error in itunes. I don't understand why. I also tried placing the tag in different places within the channel tag but it doesn't fix things.

The dynamic feeds are rosavientospodcast.com/podcast/?feed=rss2
and feeds.feedburner.com/RosaVientosPodcastCom (and the new one feedproxy.google.com/RosaVientosPodcastCom

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Nov 18, 2008 11:38 PM in response to Jose M Olaya

The tag reads
<itunes:new-feed-url> http://feedproxy.google.com/RosaVientosPodcastCom</itunes:new-feed-url>

amd this is not being accepted as a valid URL: I don't know how Google handles this but for the redirect to work you probably need a proper URL including the actual feed file name with '.xml' on the end - the URL works by itself in FireFox but it's effectively a redirect and this may be confusing iTunes.

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Jose M Olaya Author

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Nov 19, 2008 5:54 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Yes but I don't understand why this is happening.

I tried putting a URL that is a plain XML file and iTunes still spits out this url error, and the validation of the feed fails.

The only thing I can think of is that the <itunes> tags are no longer valid, because they fail even basic feed validation.

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Jose M Olaya Author

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Nov 19, 2008 6:12 AM in response to Jose M Olaya

I just figured it out.

I had to add xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" to the rss tag.
it now works 🙂

thanks for your help

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