How can I have individual podcast episode artwork show in Apple Podcasts?

Hey guys,

looking for a little help.

I have a podcast and the feed has been going on Itunes connect and other services for a good year now.

I've been uploading individual unique artwork for each episode on SoundCloud where I upload the podcast and push out via the RSS feed and some apps like Spotify pick up the different artwork each episode, but a lot of other apps don't including Apple Podcasts. I have a suspicion that the other apps pull from apple podcasts (although I don;t know for sure as i'm not an expert at this) and this might be the source of my problem.


Does anyone know the trick to get the unique episode artwork to display per episode in apple podcasts?


(Posted some pictures to help give you an idea of what I'm banging on about.

First image is from Spotify with the unique images for each episode. the second is that first episode in the spotify list but on Apple Podcast which is using the default podcast feed image.)

Posted on Apr 11, 2020 12:26 AM

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Apr 11, 2020 1:21 AM in response to Conbrosations

I can't advise on Podcasts for iOS and you could ask in the forum for that. In iTunes when subscribing, you can have images displayed for individual episodes, but they have to be actually embedded in the media file. You can use an 'itunes:image' tag within the episode tags, but these only appear (and very small) in the Search results when they show individual episodes.


As you are using SoundCloud you may not have the ability to do this: I don't know whether if you add the image to an MP3 file's ID tags it will survive the transition into a Soundcloud file.


I don't know if there is a method for adding this tag using an iOS device. You can add an audio file to iTunes 'Songs' library on a Mac or PC (using iTunes, not the Library folder - never touch that) by dragging the file to the Songs listing, and then add the image using get Info, (command-i) then copy the file out again (and delete it from iTunes if required).


Apr 11, 2020 3:01 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Ah you think maybe if I import into itunes and add the artwork there then use that new file from the itunes library it could have the image baked into the file. Maybe then Apple Podcasts will recognise it. As you said though maybe the artwork information might not make the journey through the RSS feed to Apple Podcasts when I upload it.


I'm curious why Apple Podcasts is the one struggling to get that information though is soundcloud correctly relays it to Spotify without any extra work. what is it that is stopping Apple Podcasts?

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