iTunes says there are no episodes...feedburner issues

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iTunes says there are no episodes...feedburner issues

This is starting to get super annoying. What I thought was going to be a simple task has occupied all my free time in the last two days. I'm trying to get iTunes to recognize my podcast, but it says there are no episodes....but according to all the tips i've read, I should be all set. See below for blogsite and feedburner feed.

feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CosmicPulseDanceCast

Blog Feed: http://cosmicpulsedc.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Blog URL: http://cosmicpulsedc.blogspot.com/

what am I doing wrong here?

Windows 7

Posted on Feb 29, 2012 2:29 PM

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Feb 29, 2012 2:53 PM in response to kbonura

Your episode's media file is a Flash Player with a .swf extension. iTunes does not play Flash, and does not display episodes which have no playable media, hence the error message.

Your media files need to be .mp3, m4a (audio) or .m4v, .mp4 or .mov (video) and you need to provide a direct link to the actual media file, not an embedded player.

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Feb 29, 2012 3:16 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

plz look again...I have a direct link to the mp3 as well.

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Feb 29, 2012 11:30 PM in response to kbonura

No you don't. You have a link to an MP3 download in the 'description' tag (which iTunes does not read). What matters is the 'enclosure' tag and that links to a Flash player.

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Mar 1, 2012 4:46 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Hey Roger,

So how do I change that? Can't find anything that walks you through how to properly set up enclosure tags

Thanks,

Kyle

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Mar 1, 2012 4:51 AM in response to kbonura

You need to delete the existing episode in Bloggger and create a new one, submitting an mp3 file - do this properly and it will populate the 'enclosure' tag correctly for you: I can't advise on specifics - it the process isn't clear you will need to look in their Help.

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Mar 1, 2012 5:13 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

K how bout now....removed the flash player, and I believe the mp3 link is now within the enclosure tag

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Mar 1, 2012 5:16 AM in response to kbonura

I don't know what you've done, but you don't have an 'enclosure' tag at all now.

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Mar 1, 2012 5:26 AM in response to kbonura

ugh this is so obnoxious....feedburner is way behind and pinging doesn't push the changes as it claims to do.

I've manually entered a rel="enclosure" in the anchor tag and perhaps that'll do something. I'm also going to try and add a new blog post with the link...perhaps the old blog post was completely screwed up by the flash player. There's got to be a way to include the flash player and the proper enclosure path to the mp3 file though right?

got to love how even on all the tutorial sites they all say its "easy" be seem to give instructions in secret language almost as though they don't want new people finding out how to do this....I've now gone bald from pulling my hair out.

surgery is easier than this

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Mar 1, 2012 7:52 AM in response to kbonura

kbonura wrote:

I've manually entered a rel="enclosure" in the anchor tag and perhaps that'll do something.

That won't do anything at all. You need a separate 'enclosure' tag but you're not going to be able to put that in yourself. Blogger will do it all for you if you enter the information correctly: deleting the original post and replacing it from scratch, as I suggested before, is the way to go.

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kbonura Author

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Mar 1, 2012 10:58 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Think I've done it...can you leme know?

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Mar 1, 2012 1:54 PM in response to kbonura

while iTunes still claims there are no episodes....feedburner, when viewing the xml clearly shows an enclosure tag.

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Mar 1, 2012 2:55 PM in response to kbonura

This is presumably a link to download the file, though it doesn't seem to do anything. Like I've said, you have to provide a direct link to the actual audio file, not a download link or a player or a script to call it.

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