Image size?

apple reccomends 300x300 (pixels). This has seemed to work fine for my podcast... you may want to try lowering the resolution (ppi)

Custom Windows XP Pro

For RSS, it's 144x144.
For the iTunes Music Store, it's 300x300.

You can include both in your feed like this:
<image>
<url> http://www.yoursite.org/144.jpg</url>
<title>Title</title>
<link> http://www.yoursite.org</link>
<width>144</width>
<height>144</height>
</image>
<itunes:image href="http://www.yoursite.org/300.jpg" />

Making one 144x144 and the other 300x300 (two images).

Hope this answers your question.

The problem with putting in two Image tags is that it will cause you to get an error when you try and validate at

http://rss.scripting.com

Because of that you are best to just use the one image tag as such:

<itunes:image href="http://www.podcast411.com/img/411_itunes.jpg"/>

And this image should be 300 x 300 pixels.

Rob @ podCast411

My feed validates just fine, Robert. It isn't two image tags. One is an tag and the other is a tag.

This has to be asked alot. But yesterday 5-11-06. I sent in my podcast and it is now up. But i dont see my artwork up. I believe i have it setup right. I have the image as 300x300 and this is what it looks like in the feed.
<itunes:image> http://www.revcmpsys.com/mitm/podcast/weekly/MIMBS_logo.jpg</itunes:image>

Does that look right?

Really would love my image to be up since it makes us look like we know what we are doing:) Even tho i am still new to this.

Windows XP Pro DELL

Not quite. It should look like this:

<itunes:image href="http://www.revcmpsys.com/mitm/podcast/weekly/MIMBS_logo.jpg" />

Hope this helps.

Thank you for your reply. I am going to try this now. So i should just edit my .xml file and then re-upload it to my server right?

Right.

After you upload it to your server, you can "ping" the iTMS to notice the changes.

https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast?id=FEEDID
where FEEDID is your iTunes podcast numeric ID.

Hope this is helpful.

actually i'm having problems with my image as well. my podcast is up and running on Apple iTunes store. when i search for my podcast i see my image, but when i subscribe to the podcast, i don't see the image under "artwork" area in iTunes. also when i load the podcast to my iPod i still don't see the image.

this is the line of code i've added in my XML file:

<itunes:image href="http://www.krismichael.com/exposure/episodes/g coverexposure.png" />

the image is 300x300

my podcast is "Exposure with Kris Michael"

thanks in advance for any help with this.

In order for the artwork to display in the artwork area when one subscribes (Lower left of itunes screen). The audio file itself has to have the image embedded in the tag. I had the same issues. I downloaded http://www.digitaction.com/index.php and used that to batch tag all my files with my artwork. Now it works great.

My department has produced several podcast for our agency. ( http://www.myetv.org/podcast) . All is working well with one exception.

The image is not appearing in the artwork window when you subscribe to a podcast and play one of its episodes. (Podcasts have been submitted and accepted by iTunes for 3 weeks).

Two of our XML files can be viewed at http://www.myetv.org/podcast/feeds/SpoletoToday_with_MarcusOverton.xml and http://www.myetv.org/podcast/feeds/Spoleto_Updates.xml . We cannot figure out what we are doing wrong. We have pinged iTunes to update and still nothing. We have included the necessary itunes:image tag in the XML files.

1) I've noticed in many discussions here, and also in Apple's Tech Specs, there is a space after .jpg” and before />. Is this space necessary for iTunes to recognize the tag?
(EXAMPLE: <itunes:image href="http://example.com/podcasts/everything/AllAboutEverything.jpg" />)

2) Is it necessary to include the width and height tags for the image to display in iTunes.

3) It is my understanding that it is not necessary to embed the image within each episode of a podcast, unless you want a different image to display for each episode or you want the image to display for an iPod. Is this correct?

Any assistance would be very much appreciated.



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http://www.podcast411.com/id3tags.html

Sallid,

The problem is not with the feed or iTunes - it is that the image you are looking for should be in the ID3 tags and not the Feed.

See the tutorial above.

The image needs to be imbeded in the MP3 file before you upload to the server.

Rob @ podCast411

Thx again Rob. Problem solved.

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