Hi there,
I've submitted my new podcast feed (1st episode) on Saturday and still can't seem to get it validated. I get the following error message: "Can’t submit your feed. Your feed was previously submitted."
Can you please help?
Thanks a lot.
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15
The feed seems to be OK. The only thing is that you haven't chosen a sub-category for your catetory 'Health & Fitness' - this wouldn't get you rejected but one will be chosen for you which may not be the one you want. You should choose one from the official list:
https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itc9267a2f12
You posted that your feed has already been submitted. However Podcasts Connect is now saying it's 'Prepared for submission' meaning it's technically OK so I don't know what's been going on. It looks as if you can go ahead and submit it. If you've already submitted it and had the email accepting this, it's just a question of waiting.
I would guess you have an Anchor feed? Sadly - They submit to Apple for you - which means you do not have ownership / control of your show. If this is the case - then you need to contact Anchor to ask them how to get ownership / control of your show into your own Apple Podcasts connect account.
Regards,
Rob W
Whether or not it's Anchor, once you've submitted a feed you can no longer use Podcasts Connect to validate it (successful submissions means it would show as OK anyway). Why did you want to validate it? if there's something you're not happy about you could post the URL here and I'll take a look at it or you could try http://podba.se
Hello,
I confirm I did not use Anchor, I just wanted to submit it and for some reason I got this "failed validation" message.
Here is the RSS feed: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:781851127/sounds.rss
Is there anything wrong with it?
Thanks a lot for the help.
Hi Roger,
In the meantime I tried a tip from Buzzsprout to resubmit my feed which seemed okay and was submitted for review.
But now I still get the same error message :(
Buzzsprout recommended to change title and description so that it would be considered as a duplicate RSS feed but now the result is still the same... Failed validation...
This is very frustrating and making me not want to have my podcast on Apple anymore...
Actually it seems to be working now somehow!! The podcast is now available.
Just scheduled a feed refresh to get in the right name and description.
Thanks again for all the help.
Hi and thanks for the help but I did not use Anchor :(
Failed Validation on Podcast Connect - How to solve?
