Podcast not updating in itunes

You've fallen over an issue which has caught a number of people. Your media files for the episodes since March have URLs beginning with https (secure connection) rather than http as the earlier ones do. https will not work in iTunes, and Blogger does not create 'enclosure' tags as a result. Consequently these episodes appears to have no playable media as far as iTunes is concerned and so it doesn't show them.

You need to change the URL to be http on these files and republish the feed, then they will show.

Your feed contains episodes 93 to 106 (plus some episodes which contain only links to YouTube movies which won't work in iTunes).

Altogether there are 25 episodes in the feed. What is persumably happening is that, in common with many podcast creation services, Blogger is limiting the number of episodes shown in the feed, moving older ones to an archive page, and out of the feed, as new episodes are added once the limit is reached.

I don't know whether it's possible to increase this amount in Blogger - in many cases is it, but you will have to check. iTunes itself allows you 300 episodes.

I had the same problem - my podcasts weren't updating in iTunes, but were updating fine on iCatcher for the iPhone. Turns out the problem was an "&" symbol I used in one of the show descriptions. Took out the "&", replaced it with an "and", suddenly all the podcasts showed up in iTunes.

That's all it was. Hope this helps!

JeffB

Hi Roger,

I see that you are very good in this matter. Can you please check my feed here below and tell me what is wrong beacuse itunes accept it but later i get an email that my podcast has not been included in the itunes library. I think i set everything right. can you please check it for me.

I will be very grateful!

I use archive.org for hosting, Blogger for the posts, and feedburner fot the feed!

Thanks.

Patrick

THE FEED: http://feeds.feedburner.com/deejpatrick

Message was edited by: Patrick Parronchi

Message was edited by: Patrick Parronchi

Your feed appears to be technically OK - it can be subscribed to manually in iTunes.

At a quick look, it seems that your podcast may consist of 'mixes' from commercially issued recordings. If so, this is a breach of copyright and will certainly get you removed from the Store. You can only use in your podcast recordings which are either your own property, are in the public domain (not likely with this sort of music), are 'podcast safe', or for which you have the written permission of the copyright owners and the performers (which you are not likely to get).

For information on 'podcast safe' recordings enter the term in Google.

Hi Roger,

I am experiencing a similar problem. Using Podomatic, the podcast channel has updated with podomatic but not on Itunes. Not too sure what is going on ...

This is the RSS feed: http://christinecrandell.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

the Podomatic channel:http://christinecrandell.podomatic.com

Thank you so much in advance!

It's better when you have a question to start your own thread - tacking onto an existing one sometimes gets awkward with conflicting answers.

I can't find your podcast in the iTunes Store by searching on the title. What is the URL of your Store page?

There are two episodes in the feed and they both appear when subscribing manually in iTunes. The feed validates and appears to be OK. You may just have hit a slow patch in the Store - normally it takes around a couple of days to show new episodes, but sometimes it gets sticky and takes rather longer, and that may be the problem here.

Here is the link for the iTunes Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/christine-crandell/id721927794

It basically has not updated in 5 days, since I last tried to edit. What kind of glitch could this maybe be ablout? Considering the feed is validating. Could it be Digital Media Rights related? Thanks!

Here is the link for the iTunes Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/christine-crandell/id721927794

It basically has not updated in 5 days, since I last tried to edit. What kind of glitch could this maybe be ablout? Considering the feed is validating. Could it be Digital Media Rights related? Thanks!

All three episodes which are in the feed appear when subscribing, and as far as I can see the feed is OK. However the Store obviously hasn't updated since episode 1. DRM can't have anything to do with it - even if there was something odd about your media files the episodes would show, and in fact the latest episode downloads and plays when subscribing perfectly well.

I'm afraid that the most likely explanation is that the Store has 'stuck' - we've seen this sort of thing happen occasionally - and all you can do is wait for it to unstick itself.

Hello Roger,

You seem to have the PULSE on what is making our podcasts not show up.

Wondering if you can look here and tell why since October, the shows are not showing up.

here is the link:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/davins-den/id503444922

Since the end of October the shows have not updated.

Wondering if you might know what the issue may be.

Thanks in Advance for your assistance!

Cheers,

JT

Your four November episodes are in fact in the Store page, but the Store cannot read their 'pubDate' tags and so has placed them at the bottom of the list: scroll down and you will see them. The tags take the form

<pubDate>Tue,25 Nov 2013 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>

There should be a space after the 'Tue,' e.g.

<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2013 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>

This hasn't affected subscribing in iTunes, where the episodes show normally, but evidently the Store is more touchy. Insert the spaces and allow a couple of days for the Store to catch up, and it should sort itself out.

It doesn't matter much here, but as a general thing it's better to start your own thread than tack onto an existing one. You're more likely to get noticed, for one thing; and when the thread is still running (which this one isn't) you land up with interleaved answers for the original poster and questions added by other people, which rapidly gets confusing.

Hello Roger,

Is there some sort of issue right now with iTunes?

I've updated my feed 2 days ago and it's still not showing up in the store. I validated my feed and it seems to be checking out OK.

Is there some sort of delay due to the holiday season?