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Podcast artwork must be between 1400 x 1400 and 3000 x 3000 pixels, JPG or PNG, in RGB color space, and hosted on a server that allows HTTP head requests.

I created an rss feed, it has 40 or so episodes, I validated it via https://podba.se/validate/, and once that worked I pushed it up to podcast addict. subscribed on my phone 100% working. Always my intention to publish in itunes, http://www.cottenhambaptist.org.uk/Sermons/season2019.rss

I moved on and added 3 tags I had omitted, and tried the big daddy of podcasts. Why is my feed rejected?

It works 100% in the itunes desktop app, something deeper is wrong.


Thanks in advance - yes I wrote all the xml myself in a script, so it's easy to change/update.

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 9, 2020 2:43 PM

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Posted on Jan 9, 2020 2:52 PM

Firstly, your tag for the image is incorrect. It reads


<itunes:image>http://www.cottenhambaptist.org.uk/images/coverart2019.jpg</itunes:image>


It should read


<itunes:image href="http://www.cottenhambaptist.org.uk/images/coverart2019.jpg" />


Note the space befire the closing backslash.


Furthermore your image file size is far too large at 1.2MB - it must be less than 500kB.

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Jan 9, 2020 2:52 PM in response to conradbraam

Firstly, your tag for the image is incorrect. It reads


<itunes:image>http://www.cottenhambaptist.org.uk/images/coverart2019.jpg</itunes:image>


It should read


<itunes:image href="http://www.cottenhambaptist.org.uk/images/coverart2019.jpg" />


Note the space befire the closing backslash.


Furthermore your image file size is far too large at 1.2MB - it must be less than 500kB.

Jan 9, 2020 2:54 PM in response to conradbraam

I don't believe its the HTTP HEAD requests issue, since these headers come back when I do

{'Server': 'nginx', 'Date': 'Thu, 09 Jan 2020 22:45:34 GMT', 'Content-Type': 'application/rss+xml', 'Content-Length': '45313', 'Connection': 'close', 'Last-Modified': 'Thu, 09 Jan 2020 22:39:04 GMT', 'ETag': '"b101-59bbcad1bf200"', 'Accept-Ranges': 'bytes'}

My artwork is 2000x200 and .jpg as created in paint.net (on windblows.) So I am assuming it's a legit RGB colorspace image, I have even created plain single color 2000x2000 jpg files, and they are not accepted. Any other things I can somehow verify? It's showing jsut about everything i expect aside from the artwork in the previewer window.

Podcast artwork must be between 1400 x 1400 and 3000 x 3000 pixels, JPG or PNG, in RGB color space, and hosted on a server that allows HTTP head requests.

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