Technical Issues Message When Trying To Submit My Podcast Feed

KJH82 wrote:

Can anyone offer up any advice or suggestions on how I can sort this out!?

Not unless you would like to post the URL of your feed...

The feed can be successfully subscribed to manually in iTunes. There are a few minor issues with the feed which I wouldn't have expected to cause a problem, but the Store can be more touchy than the application.

You should have this as the first line in your feed:

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

You have far too many words in the 'keywords' tag in your episode - the maximum is twelve.

Your 'itunes:duration' tag reads

<itunes:duration>81</itunes:duration>

which is meaningless, though the Store might read it as 81 seconds and play only that amount of your episode. It should have the duration in the format hh:mm:ss, e.g. 0:26:42

I wouldn't have expected any of these to be fatal, though you should address them. It may be that you've hit a glitch in the Store - it's been known - so when you've corrected the errors try again.

I don't know anything about podcasts.com but it sounds as if it isn't doing a very good job. It should certainly be adding the first line (though in fact iTunes at least works without it). The number of keywords and the duration is up to you - there must be a place to enter these.

I'm having the same issue. Episode is subscribable in iTunes manually but I get the same error when I submit

http://www.broken.fm/wp-content/uploads/mayhem/BrokenFM-TheInterviews-MayhemEdit ion.xml

Your feed appears to be OK. Try this alternative URL:

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

There have been periods when the other one didn't work and this one did. If it's still not working you may have his a server glitch - there have bee several of these - and I should give it a day or so and try again.

Thanks Roger, When I click your link it launches iTunes instead of taking me to the page you are suggesting, so still no dice. Glad to know the feed is good tho

Chris Kuhner wrote:

Thanks Roger, When I click your link it launches iTunes

That's what it should do - it takes you to the submission form in the Store:

Ok, still same message so I guess I'll wait a few days and see what happens. Whish Apple was more on top of this but since it doesnt generate them money I can see why it's a low priority. Thanks for the help!

Having the same problem.

Is everyone else still having this problem. Has lasted two days so far.

Please let me know when it works for you and I will do the same. Thanks