Podcast Connect: "Can’t download episodes from your feed."

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Podcast Connect: "Can’t download episodes from your feed."

RSS feed: http://downloads.qalamproject.com/rss/khutab-rss.xml

I validated my RSS feed on https://podba.se/validate/ and it is working just fine on Google Podcasts: https://play.google.com/music/m/Iem6o5jcmmwxuz4l7neomribjdu?t=Khutab__QalamProjectcom

However, when I try to submit to Podcasts Connect, I keep getting the "Failed Validation" error and it says "Can’t download episodes from your feed."

Can anyone help me understand what the issue is here?

Posted on Dec 28, 2018 12:44 PM

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Dec 28, 2018 2:51 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Hello Roger, I figured out what the issue was. Podcasts Connect was not able to download the episode files because the filenames in the URL contained spaces. Google Podcasts and the other services were able to download episode files regardless of the spaces in the filenames. Looks like Apple is just behind in this circumstance, so I replaced the spaces with %20 and was able to submit the podcast.

Thanks for the help

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Dec 28, 2018 2:01 PM in response to qalamproject

Podcasts Connect is saying 'Your feed was previously submitted'. Did you in fact manage to submit it successfully? - that's what the message seems to suggest. As far as I can see the feed and the episode are OK.

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Dec 28, 2018 2:54 PM in response to qalamproject

OK, I'm glad you got it sorted.

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