Podcast won't accept my art from RSS feed: 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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Podcast won't accept my art from RSS feed: 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 get this when I submit my podcast to be validated: 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.

The art is between those dimensions and under 500KB (which I read is also required.) Spotify accepted the RSS feed no problem. I have zero idea what to do next to sort this.

Here's the RSS feed: https://media.rss.com/thewomenofregenerativeag/feed.xml

Any thoughts and suggestions are so welcome!

Thank you,

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Posted on Dec 17, 2020 11:28 AM

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Roger Wilmut1

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Dec 17, 2020 2:54 PM in response to Ouroboros_Agency

If your image is being cropped or otherwise modified it's being done by the method you are using to create your feed - RSS.com - and I'm afraid I know nothing about them and so can't advise. I would have expected any app or service to leave the image alone, and certanly not to somehow increase the file size to four times what is should be. Probably your best bet would be to rework the image to make sure that it is exactly square, and increase the compression when saving to get the file size below 500kB, and then see if it makes it into the feed unaltered.

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Answer 2

Dec 17, 2020 1:46 PM in response to Ouroboros_Agency

Your image is at

https://media.rss.com/thewomenofregenerativeag/20201215_220903_28623187c1a3d4b080317cca6b8cd86c.jpg

The dimensions are 1584 x 1583 px - it must be square. The file size is 2MB: it must be less than 500kB.

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Answer 3

Dec 17, 2020 2:03 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

I'm completely surprised. Thank you. The file before uploading it says 2000x1600 and 400kB. Now I'm not sure what's happening. It does crop it to a perfect square when it's uploaded which makes it even smaller but within range. Does that make sense to you, Roger?

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Answer 4

Dec 18, 2020 11:58 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thank you so much, Roger. It is something RSS is doing. I created a 1400x1400 379kB and when I upload it to RSS it become 1.2MB. Zero idea what to do with this. No wonder this is such a thing on forums. Will keep digging, but may just leave it on Spotify. Thanks again, Aurora

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Answer 5

Dec 18, 2020 12:00 PM in response to Ouroboros_Agency

You will need to move your podcast to a place that does not change the image size on you.

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Podcast won't accept my art from RSS feed: 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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