Feed is valid but Itunes not updating episodes

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Feed is valid but Itunes not updating episodes

I've been told by Feed Validator that the feed for my podcast, From Scratch Club, is correct.

Here is the "congrats" page: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A//fromscratchclubpodcast.podbean.c om/feed/

Here is my feed: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A//fromscratchclubpodcast.podbean.c om/feed/

Here is my Itunes page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/from-scratch-club-podcast/id506544254

(There should be two episodes, not one)

I know my Itunes ID Number, so that shouldn't be the problem. My podcast is hosted through Podbean, and they are uploaded to my profile there.

The first episode went up on Itunes just fine.... then the 2nd episode was "published" on March 27th, which I received immediately in my Itunes feed but no one else did.

AND episode 2 hasn't been listed in Itunes. Listeners are starting to complain on my blog that they are not getting Episode 2 in their Itunes feed of the podcast or can't download the 2nd episode (not wanting to subscribe).

HELP!

Posted on Apr 5, 2012 12:47 PM

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Answer 1

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Roger Wilmut1

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Apr 5, 2012 2:07 PM in response to FromScratchClb

Subscribing to your podcast from the Store page shows and downloads episode 2, so there's nothing wrong with the feed. It's juset a matter of the Store failing to update. It caches the feed and checks it periodically for upates; usually it takes 1-2 days for it to catch up, but sometimes there are slow patches and I'm afraid it looks as if you have hit one of them.

There isn't really anything you can do; it will update evemtually.

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Answer 2

May 1, 2012 2:07 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Hey Roger,

I'm back again... with the same problem. I don't understand why Apple can't update my podcast's feed in a timely manner- meaning within 1 week. We upload our podcasts the last Tuesday of every month and we should have our 3rd episode up. I just checked our feed again, its totally fine. What do we do just wait it out?!?!?!?!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Here's our page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/from-scratch-club-podcast/id506544254

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Answer 3

May 1, 2012 2:10 PM in response to FromScratchClb

Your feed is at http://fromscratchclubpodcast.podbean.com/feed/

Episode 3 has no playable media: iTunes does not display entries with no playable media as they don't constitute podcast episodes.

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Answer 4

May 1, 2012 2:47 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

This is crazy. Something is going on with my feed. So I posted the podcast last Tuesday and I immediately got it in my Itunes subscription feed, so did many others. Then it disappeared. Now, there is no podcast attached...

what is going on? Should I complain to Podbean?

P.S. Thanks Roger for letting me know, I just updated it with the episode.

Chris

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Answer 5

May 1, 2012 2:52 PM in response to FromScratchClb

Yes, it's working OK now for subscribers. It will take the Store a day or two to catch up.

I can't suggest how this happened - I'm not familiar with Podbean.

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