Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I got a rejection notice from iTunes due to some errors in our feed, and I've corrected them (I think). FeedValidator gives me a valid result, but I still get the failed message at Podcast Connect (so I can't resubmit the podcast).
Url is http://www.thegatheringnow.com/media/podcast/the-gathering.xml
TIA!
Maybe I posted too fast. Now the Podcast Connect gives me an error due to an issue I've already corrected and shows the last refresh was on June 30?? Is that the last time the file was refreshed on the Apple servers?
The situation seems very confused. Searching on the name of your podcast throws up two podcasts of that title, both authored by you, with feeds at
https://anchor.fm/s/90809a4/podcast/rss
http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:451611129/sounds.rss
Neither is at all up to date or seems to match the feed you link to: this latter works perfectly well in iTunes when subscribing.
Attempting to validate the feed in Podcasts Connect brings up the 'already submitted' error, which is quite normal - once a feed is submitted it can't be validated (unless it's rejected). If you have submitted the feed and got no errors when you did so, then the submission is under process and as I say you can't validate the feed there again.
Is this the situation, that this is a feed you have only just submitted (or tried to submit)? I'm surprised that there are already two versions in the Store - you're not supposed to be able to duplicate titles. It would be advisable to delete them: you may have difficulty with the Anchor feed as it would presumably have been submitted under their Apple ID, not yours, so it would be up to them. The Soundcloud one should be deletable by signing into Podcasts Connect with the ID used to submit it and clicking the 'delete feed' link.
If the error you are getting is not the 'already submitted' one, then what is it?
Roger -
Neither of those are mine, and mine's been active with Apple since 2011. The url I provided is the same one I validated and re-submitted to Apple this morning after being told they had removed it due to feed errors.
What alarmed me was later seeing my podcast listed in my Podcast Central's dashboard with "Error" underneath it and when I clicked it, the next page said it was in error due to mistakes I'd already corrected, validated, and re-submitted.
I'm thinking now that I'll just sit patiently and let the resubmission process take its course.
Thanks for your help.
UPDATE: it validated. Must have been a cache issue.
Failed validation on Podcast Connect but nowhere else
