feed works, itunes store doesnt.

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feed works, itunes store doesnt.

hey guys, i'm trying to add a new episode to my podcast, but for some reason it won't update, even after i've pinged it. some of the problem might be because i deleted something from the feed beforehand because it was corrupted. the feed does work, however.

feed url: http://lpsm64.blip.tv/rss/itunes
podcast url: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=315554759

Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on May 16, 2009 9:20 AM

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May 16, 2009 12:48 PM in response to dark magshin

Your latest episode in the feed is dated 1519 today: in my experience it usually takes around a day for the Store page to update to changes. The feed seems OK as far as iTunes is concerned (I can't answer for all the 'blip' tags, but iTunes should happily ignore them) and subscribing produces the 5 episodes shown in your feed, and the latest one plays OK. I think you will just have to give it a day, or just possibly two, and see whether it updates.

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May 16, 2009 1:06 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

thanks. apparently the itunes store has updated now. i was kinda under the impression that the "ping" updating was instantaneous. i see i was wrong now.

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May 16, 2009 1:13 PM in response to dark magshin

I don't think it has: it's showing 6 episodes, the second seemingly a phantom version of the latest one, and neither plays (though the earlier ones do). Don't be confused by the fact the subscriptions update immediately. Once you have subscribed your iTunes application is working from the feed without going through the Store, and so will update immediately. The Store page caches the information (though not the media) and so changes don't show until it's worked round to you (remember there are literally thousands of podcasts for it to check through). I'm not convinced that pinging makes a lot of difference.

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