New RSS feed not being picked up by iTunes

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New RSS feed not being picked up by iTunes

I am really hoping someone can help as I am totally stumped.

I have 5 podcasts that I produce on a weekly basis. Up until now each one had their own website, feed etc. I have just migrated all the content onto one site so I am still running 5 podcasts with 5 different feeds but from the same url. The new RSS feeds look 100% but here is the problem I am having. I have recorded and uploaded 3 out of the 5 programmes for this week. 2 of them updated perfectly but the third is not being picked up by iTunes.

Here are the two that are working:

http://www.talkfeed.co.za/category/tritalksa/?feed=podcast

http://www.talkfeed.co.za/category/cycletalksa/?feed=podcast

and here is the one that is not:

http://www.talkfeed.co.za/category/trailtalksa/?feed=podcast

I have set up redirects on the old feed to point to the new feeds

I am totally baffled because on that last feed the latest episode is the correct one (if you look at it in a feed reader), but iTunes is not picking it up.

Wil be extremely appreciative if someone could help

Posted on Oct 28, 2013 11:48 PM

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Oct 29, 2013 12:50 AM in response to BigBradBrown

http://www.talkfeed.co.za/category/trailtalksa/?feed=podcast works perfectly well, though it's a little slow to load. On subscribing in iTunes I saw yesterday's episode.

Searching on the title in the iTunes Store produced no result. Does this feed actually have a Store page? - if it's recent the Search won't have picked it up yet. It normally takes 1-2 days for a new episode to appear in the Store so you wouldn't expect yesterday's to show yet. As it appears when subscribing the feed is OK.

However in the top section of the feed you have a 'link' tag and another 'link' tag inside the 'image' tag, and both od these contain a description, not a URL: this technically renders the feed invalid though I don't know whether that would be serious enough to upset the Store.

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Oct 29, 2013 1:54 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thanks Roger, it is very strange. it is updating the rss feed but on my subscription on iTunes it is not pushing the podcast though to the app on my iPhone. Have just tested the other 4 and they are working 100% but this on isn't.

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Oct 29, 2013 2:44 AM in response to BigBradBrown

I don't have a iPhone so I'm not familiar with the Podcasts app; but I have the impression that it works from the Store page rather than the feed. If this is the case the episode won't appear in the app until it appears in the Store. As I say, I couldn't find your Store page to check it, but if the episode hasn't appeared there yet (which would be normal enough at this stage) wait until it does and then check again in the Podcasts app. I may be wrong about the way it works, but in that case I can only refer you to the iPhone forum.

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Oct 29, 2013 4:08 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

The app picks the new podcast up immediately. As soon as you publish it, it becomes available to download in the app. That is not happening on this one. I have redirected the old feed to the new one and have also added new feed tags to the old feed to no avail.

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Oct 29, 2013 4:44 AM in response to BigBradBrown

I can see no difference in the coding for the episode of 28 October from that for the episode of 17 October, which presumably does show: both have the wrong sort of data in the 'link' tags as I described above, but if the 17th is OK that can't be an issue. Otherwise I'm afraid I have no idea why the latest episode isn't showing, and no way of checking it.

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