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My podcast disappeared from the iTunes store. I had not updated it in about two months. I tried to recreate it, and in the process found that it contained a missing ". If I fix the error and apdate the feed will it automatically reappear in the iTunes store?
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If your feed was unreadable for a period of time for any reason it's likely to have been removed from the Store. If you go to the Store page at the URL you were given in the notification email, does your site appear, or are you told it's not available? If the former, then it should update a few days after you upload the corrected feed. If the latter, then it's been removed, and you will have to re-sumbit the feed as an entirely new podcast. You will need to change the title slightly or the automated part of the process will tell you the feed has already been submitted.
You've been lucky, so far - your podcast is still in the Store, it's just that it's empty. They will remove it eventually if you don't get some episodes into it, though I can't guess at how long you've got.
The Store page is at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/top-marketing-strategies-podcast/id588228685 ?mt=2
Whatever the cause of the confusion over the enclosure tags is, if you can get the feed working properly again the Store will pick it up next time it checks the feed - usually a couple of days or so - without your having to do anything further.
The test is to click the Subscribe button on your Store page - at present there are no episodes, but once you have it sorted they will appear immediately when subscribing.
Well, it's finally figured out and resolved.
The issue had nothing to do with the enclosure tags - they were always there.
The problem is that we installed Wishlist Member onto the site for an upcoming membership migration and Wishlist screwed up the PowerPress feed by adding some private key on it that broke it in iTunes.
Bottom line is we'll install wishlist on a sub-domain instead to avoid this grief. There appears to be a fix to make this work with both Wishlist and PowerPress - but after this ordeal and drama, we've just decided to keep the membership on a completely different sub-domain and "keep it simple"...
Thanks for the assistance Roger...
Hi there Roger, I've read through this thread, its been helpful, thanks 🙂 Thismorning I added Episode #10 to this podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/social-media-pulse/id591324274 - All 10 episodes are showing - BUT when I go to my iTunes Store to view and listen to the podcast all 10 issues are missing! I've checked and verifited the blubrry feed - all is fine. Why are they not showing? Can you check from your end? Cheers and thanks in advance Chey
Everything is working OK - the episodes play in the Store, and when I subscribed the latest epipsode downloaded. Possibly the server hosting your media files went offline temporarily.
Thanks a bunch Roger 🙂 Must have been EzS3 issue.... I checked a few hours later and all was good. Will see what happens on the next upload.
why did my podcast diappear from the iTunes store?
