Artwork, author, summary etc for my podcast is not showing up in iTunes. WHY?

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Artwork, author, summary etc for my podcast is not showing up in iTunes. WHY?

Hi!

I added a podcast feed (and got it approved) to iTunes a week ago, and I can now find the first (and so far only) podcast episode in iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/se/podcast/allt-vi-sager-ar-sant/id601876036?mt=2

But as you can see, iTunes is not picking up the information about author, subtitle, summary, artwork etc. What's wrong? Does anyone know?

I'm using Blogger, Feedburner and Smartcast. I entered all the information about author, subtitle, artwork etc, into Smartcast.

My original feed is here: http://alltvisager.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

And my feed adress at feedburner is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AlltViSagerArSant

Can anyone help me?

/Lisa

Posted on Feb 19, 2013 1:40 PM

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Feb 19, 2013 2:10 PM in response to Flitiga Lisa

The Store is picking up exactly what is in the specified tags in the feed:

I don't know whether that's the text you were hoping to see. Your feed has a large amount of formatted text in the 'description' tags, but iTunes does not read this tag.

This page illustrates what tags appear where in the Store and when subscribing:

http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/itunestags.html

(It's for the previous version of iTunes but the differences are slight, just a matter of layout.)

Note however that the image referenced in the feed does not appear when subscribing - the image has to be actually embedded in the media file. Please see this page for details:

http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/coverart.html

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Flitiga Lisa Author

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Feb 19, 2013 2:19 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thank you so much!

I guess iTunes started to pick up the info from Smartcast as I wrote the question, because that's actually exactly what I wanted to see.

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