Redirecting my libsyn account to feedburner is returning an error in itunes

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Redirecting my libsyn account to feedburner is returning an error in itunes

I am redirecting my podcast Vox in a Box from libsyn to feedburner. When I manually load in itunes it works, but adding the normal way has an error.

I added

<itunes:new-feed-url>

http://feeds.feedburner.com/voxboxcomics/meiR

</itunes:new-feed-url>

to my libsyn feed and the new feed of http://feeds.feedburner.com/voxboxcomics/meiR shows up in Itunes but now the show will not download the new feed, but returns an error message. (and unknown error occured -50)

When I try manually suscribing to http://feeds.feedburner.com/voxboxcomics/meiR Itunes is able to access it no problem.

Please let me know if I have made an error in redirecting this feed. I appreciate your help!

-Michael Corley

Windows XP

Posted on Apr 29, 2012 1:02 PM

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Roger Wilmut1

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Apr 29, 2012 1:14 PM in response to mistercorley

Everything's working OK for me. iTunes is using the feed at

http://feeds.feedburner.com/voxboxcomics/meiR

and I downloaded a couple of episodes without problems. If you are seeing an error I can't explain that - perhaps there is some techincal problem on your comuter: I don't know whether Windows has any problems with podcasrs but it's fine on a Mac.

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Apr 29, 2012 3:53 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Roger,

Thank you so much for your quick response! After you let me know I waited a while and tried again and it worked fine.

A quick follow up question: My purpose in changing my RSS feed is so it will come through Feedburner and not directly from Libsyn. I wish to start a new podcast soon and don't want the second being pulled because I used the libsyn rss feed.

Will Itunes eventually JUST pull the http://feeds.feedburner.com/voxboxcomics/meiR feed after it has been redirected for a while? If so, how do I make it so the feedburner feed is the only feed Itunes looks for and not a redirect from the libsyn feed?

Thank you!

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Apr 29, 2012 11:34 PM in response to mistercorley

iTunes will use the feed you submit. It won't redirect unless you specifically used the 'itunes:new-feed-url' tag and when you do subscribers will see the change immediately; it will probably take the Store a couple of days to catch up. If you want to use the Feedburner feed then subnit that URL in the first place.

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mistercorley Author

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Apr 30, 2012 6:32 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thank you, Roger. My problem is I didn't know about Feedburner when I first started podcasting a year ago. I wish I did, I wouldn't have had to go through all of this! 🙂 Thanks for your help.

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