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An unknown error occured (11111) itunes podcast

Can anybody help me please?


I cannot submit my podcast to itunes.

It comes a popup. An unknown error occured (11111)


What should I need to do?


This link doesn't work:

https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/publishPodcast



thanks

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jan 28, 2013 2:46 PM

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Jan 29, 2013 4:50 AM in response to dimofat

The feed is technically OK, and can be subscribed to manually in iTunes, so we're back at the answer I originally gave.


However there are a couple of points you should address. Some of your filenames have spaces in them: although the feeed has handled this correctly by substituting the code %20, so that it's not actually causing a problem, it's bad practice and better avoided. The usual workaround is to substitute an underscore for each space.


Regarding the second oldest episode, I should change that title if I were you. Despite the way you've laid it out it's quite obvious what word you are referring to and it's likely to get you rejected. Even if you set the 'explicit' tag to 'yes', explicit language is not allowed in titles. You might get away with this, but I would expect the risk of rejection to be high.

Jan 29, 2013 9:03 AM in response to dimofat

The feed is basically OK, and can be subscribed to manually in iTunes.


You still have a space in your media file filename - this doesn't stop the feed working, but I would advise replacing it with an underscore and amending the feed accordingly, and avoiding spaces in future. Generally you will get away with it, but it's not good practice and might cause an issue somewhere.


You have described your episode as a 'radio mix' and it appears to consist entirely of music. Is this taken from commercially available CDs? If you are doing this without clearance from the copyright owners you are in breach of copyright and if detected will get you rejected by or removed from the Store (and possibly sued by the copyright owners if they notice you). The term 'radio mix' is likely to alert the Store staff to the contents.


If you have obtained clearance or are using 'podcast safe' music you should add a note to this affect to the overall description.

Jan 29, 2013 11:22 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thank you Roger I have every lisece, what it needs to publishing as a dj. But I don't understand why doesn't work?


I think I did everything with my link, I made a new one again.


http://www.dimofatdeejay.com/Podcast/DimofatDeejay/dimofatpodcast.xml


When I try to submit to the itunes, this popup comes : An unknown error occured (11111) itunes podcast

Why?

Jan 29, 2013 11:50 AM in response to dimofat

Please note - if your have RIAA music in your podcast it likely will not get approved - and if it does - it likely will get pulled down some time in the future.


You can not get all the licenses needed for podcasting - as a podcast is a download and a download in the eyes of the law is a mechanical copy. Soundexchange license does NOT cover podcasting.


And since it is a mechancial copy you would need to deal with the Harry fox agency and their license is $0.091 per download per song up to 5 minutes per song. And even if you then paid that and got the ASCAP, BMI and SESAC licences - you still don't have one covering you with the record labels as mentioned above Soundexchange does not cover downloads / podcasts.


So there is a good chance if your podcast has any music that is not "Podsafe" it will either not get approved or will eventually and with out warning pulled down.


Rob W

podCast411

Jan 29, 2013 7:57 PM in response to jameshannan

http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html


Here is a tutorial that shows the tags you need and should have in your feed.


Your feed is missing a few key items - but the enclosure tag is the most important item.


I am biased - but I would suggest using Libsyn.com for your host instead of AWS - and then just the feed libsyn.com creates to feed feedburner. You can also publish to your wordpress blog directly. This will make your life much easier - just upload the file to libsyn then add in the title and description and publish - it will then update your feed and your wordpress blog.


Here is a link on how to connect libsyn to your wordpress blog - http://support.libsyn.com/faqs/onpublish-wordpress/


Or you can hand code and update your feed each time you upload to AWS.


Another advantage of libsyn of AWS is if your show gets popular there is no bandwidth fee for libsyn - it is just a flat monthly fee based on what you plan to upload.


Rob W

libsyn

An unknown error occured (11111) itunes podcast

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