XML Placement for Podcast?

Thanks Roger!

When you say "place it on your webspace server" where am I doing that exactly? That is where I am confused. With my host, Godaddy? Or on my wordpress blog?

My feedburner feed: http://iheartlifeinc.com/?feed=rss2

My WP blog: http://iheartlife.com

I haven't put any XML feed directly on my site or with my host Godaddy, I just added some iTunes info into the 'SmartCast' area on Feedburner.

Thank you for your response!!!

Oh, and I've been devouring your site, Podcast411, but all that still eludes me (and I can't seem to find the answer or it's going wayyyyy over my head) is where to actually place my XML feed.

I've already sent in my podcast feed (http://iheartlifeinc.com/?feed=rss2) url to iTunes for review. I'm still awaiting word. In the meanwhile, I'll keep posting episodes on my blog--is that recommended?

Thanks!

Hi Roger,

The podcast was approved, but alas, no information is showing up for it. Just what I was worried about. What to do now? I've updated the SmartCast feature already in Feedburner to house all appropriate information for iTunes.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/iheartlife/id625779812

Any help for me?

Thank you, thank you!

Yvette

Thank you, Roger! Will contact Apple for more insight. You did help make it clear that it's a WP thing I'll have to figure out.

Hi Roger,

This still isn't working for me. I've created a new rss feed to submit to iTS, uploaded the XML file to my root directory on my WP blog and still no published album cover, details, etc for my podcast page on iTS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/iheartlife/id625779812

This is my xml file, anything wrong here:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">

<channel>

<title>i heart life radio</title>

<link>http://iheartlifeinc.com</link>

<language>en-us</language>

<copyright>&#x2117; &amp; &#xA9; 2013 Yvette Bowlin</copyright>

<itunes:subtitle>The How-To of Spiritual Living</itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:author>Yvette Bowlin</itunes:author>

<itunes:summary>The how-to of spiritual living. Empower yourself with the spiritual principles that govern our lives. Join us as we discuss: how to stay clear and present, mindfulness, the meaning of life, finding a sense of purpose, inner peace, how to meditate, how to live a fulfilling and happy life, eating for nutrition, love, relationships, exercise and yoga, career, passion, and so much more. Learn from Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, David R Hawkins, Tao te Ching and others on how to live life to the fullest. Your weekly dose of inspiration and look into yourself. Take this time for you! </itunes:summary>

<description>The how-to of spiritual living. Empower yourself with the spiritual principles that govern our lives. Join us as we discuss: how to stay clear and present, mindfulness, the meaning of life, finding a sense of purpose, inner peace, how to meditate, how to live a fulfilling and happy life, eating for nutrition, love, relationships, exercise and yoga, career, passion, and so much more. Learn from Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, David R Hawkins, Tao te Ching and others on how to live life to the fullest. Your weekly dose of inspiration and look into yourself. Take this time for you! </description>

<itunes:owner>

<itunes:name>Yvette Bowlin</itunes:name>

<itunes:email>livefullyinc@gmail.com</itunes:email>

</itunes:owner>

<itunes:image href="http://iheartlifeinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/iheartlife_cover2013_h.jpg"/>

<itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality">

<itunes:category text="Spirituality"/>

</itunes:category>

<itunes:category text="Health"/>

<itunes:category text="Self-Help"/>

<item>

<title>EP1: Leap of Faith</title>

<itunes:author>Yvette Bowlin</itunes:author>

<itunes:subtitle>What we put our minds to, we can do. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. -Neale Donald Walsch</itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:summary>Welcome to the first episode! Did you know that the creation of life begins in your mind? What we put our minds to, we can do. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. -Neale Donald Walsch. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast for future episodes!</itunes:summary>

<itunes:image href="" />

<enclosure url="http://iheartlifeinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Leap-of-Faith.mp3" length="12646108" type="

audio/mpeg"/>

<guid>http://iheartlifeinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Leap-of-Faith.mp3</guid>

<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

<itunes:duration>13:00</itunes:duration>

<itunes:keywords>spiritual, Yvette Bowlin, i heart life, how to meditation, inner peace, enlightenment, mindfulness, i love life, happiness, happy</itunes:keywords>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

The following rss feeds (burned via Google Feedburner) both point to http://iheartlifeinc.com which houses the XML code above:

Feed #1: http://iheartlifeinc.com/?feed=rss2 (validated and submitted, approved last week, available at iTS link above)

New Feed #2: http://iheartlifeinc.com/feed/ (not validating, not approved)

What can I possibly be doing wrong?

Thank you!

Yvette

It's working now, this is the feed: http://iheartlifeinc.com/?feed=rss2

I figured it out. Per your last message, I'd installed a WP plugin (FD Feedburner Plugin) that redirects the feed to Feedburner thinking I had to point iTS to Feedburner because you said iTS was reading a blog, not a podcast feed. So I might not need to do that?

I deleted the redirect and now the feed is validating.

Still so lost at this point.

Where do you see that image link? In the XML feed?

I don't know how to change that because I have it in the XML and the SmartCast feature in Feedburner...

Hi Roger,

Everything seems to be working fine, at least the episode 1 and the image and descriptions are populating correctly, but now my new epsiode (posted on blog on Sunday, 31 Mar) isn't publishing to iTunes. Should I be doing something to my feed like says here in Feedburner FAQ:

1. Sign in to your FeedBurner account.
2. Click the title of your FeedBurner feed on the My Feeds page.
3. On the feed management page that appears, click the Edit Feed Details... link just below your feed's title.
4. In the Original Feed Address field, change the address listed there from an example like the following:
   
   

   Code:

   http://myblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml OR http://myblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

   
   
   to the following format:
   
   

   Code:

   http://myblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=3

   
   (Note that max-results sets the number of posts you want to have appear in your FeedBurner feed. Any integer value between 1 and 500 is permitted.)
   
   
5. Click Save Feed Details. Your changes are immediately applied and FeedBurner re-burns the newly shortened (or lengthened) feed.

I did that and changed orginal feed to what they recommended, but it's not what iTunes knows is my feed, and instead feedburner gave me this error when updating the feed name: Received HTTP error: "Not Found" while fetching source feed.

So I have 2 episodes on the blog, http://iheartlifeinc.com but it's not updating to iTunes. I'm using PowerPress plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/powerpress/) on the WP blog. Is there something I need to do with each new audio/mpeg file when I post it so that iTunes gets it? Is the plugin blocking something for me? Whenever I add a new audio file to my blog, I thought it should update on iTunes within 24 hours?