Podpress and iTunes
I attempted to change my feed title and now my feed url no longer points to my rss feed page. Will this affect my iTunes podcast? Also none of my description or title changes have updated. What did I do wrong?
I attempted to change my feed title and now my feed url no longer points to my rss feed page. Will this affect my iTunes podcast? Also none of my description or title changes have updated. What did I do wrong?
Possibly your feed filename is derived from the podcast title: some podcast creation programs do that. Your only way forward in that case would be to change it back. If the feed filename has changed then obviously iTunes won't know where to look for it and if you leave it this state long enough your podcast will be removed from the Store.
What is your iTunes store page.
What was your original RSS feed?
The store page is Straight Street Orlando and the feed url on podPress says "http://www.ymctest.info/straightstorlando/feed/podcast/" and I believe the original RSS feed should be "http://www.ymctest.info/straightstorlando/feed/rss/". I did change the title back, but it doesn't seem to work.
I'm not using feedburner. When I tried, it gave me a message about enabling byte range requests. I was able to submit the podcast using the feed url. I did try to change the title because it says "Podcast Feed" after the title. I also tried to add a more thorough description. None of that worked. 😟
http://www.ymctest.info/straightstorlando/feed/podcast/ - in a browser this redirects to
http://www.ymctest.info/straightstorlando/podcast-2/
which is a web page, not a feed, containing simply a list of episodes: when subscribing in iTunes it just shows up empty.
http://www.ymctest.info/straightstorlando/feed/rss/
is your feed: this works and can be subscribed to manually in iTunes. The title is 'Straight Street Orlando'. This is what you should submit to the iTunes Store.
You have an 'itunes:subtitle" and an 'itunes:summary' tag for the podcast itself, but not for individual episodes. Your server does appear to handle byte-range requests.
I hadd assumed from your talking about sumbitting that you didn't yet have your podcast up in the Store. In fact you have an iTunes Store page at
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/straight-street-orlando-podcast/id582862843? mt=2
which shows your episodes. However it is looking for a feed at the URL you first posted, and consequently when subscribing no episodes show.
You need to get the feed back to this URL properly: if you leave it like it is no changes will appear in the Store and eventually you will probably find your podcast removed. If you can't manage to restore a proper feed at that URL you should email them at podcasts 'at' apple.com and ask them to move the Store to using
http://www.ymctest.info/straightstorlando/feed/rss/
Once done you should leave it alone and continue to update that feed.
Roger,
Should I completely delete the podPress plug in and reinstall or use blubrry instead and then pull the url from feedburner?
I'm sorry, but I just don't have the knowledge to answer that question. At present you need to get the iTunes Store and a working feed matched up; the easiest way would be to get back to using the original URL, but otherwise you will need to email them as I indicated. If you are sure you have a working feed in Feedburner you could move to that, but you really need to be certain it's OK or you will just be digging yourself into a hole.
I got you. I only ask because both podPress and Blubrry allow me to customize the description and such. I also noticed that the original rss feed url only showed what I posted on a specific page. I'm concerned that if I post a sound byte into a blog post, that may also show up on iTunes. My thoughts are to delete the plugins completely and reinstall. This may put everything back to "normal". I suppose I'll have to just give it a go.
Thank you for your time and input. Extremely helpful!!
God bless!!
Podpress and iTunes