I've heard a number of the other posts on here with the same problem, but haven't found any solutions that have worked for me.
The podcast does work for me from the "subscribe to an iTunes" link, but I'm getting the error message when I try to submit it to the iTunes directory?
My feed url is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/thejerkstorepodcast
Help? Thanks in advance.
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Two issues. Firstly, you have a mix of episodes with and without playable media. In the feed there are two episodes without playable media above Episode 8. iTunes does not display episodes which have no playable media; and in the submissions process the Store checks only the top episode in the feed. So you need to ensure that your top episode has a playable file.
The URL of your top media file is an amazon one; it begins with https (encrypted connection) and it used to be the case that the Store could not handle these. It's possible that more recently it has become able to, but it would be preferable to start your URLs with http.
Incidentally you have the 'enclosure' tag in three times - it doesn't really matter because even if they were different iTunes would read only the top one, but it's better to have just one.
Two issues. Firstly, you have a mix of episodes with and without playable media. In the feed there are two episodes without playable media above Episode 8. iTunes does not display episodes which have no playable media; and in the submissions process the Store checks only the top episode in the feed. So you need to ensure that your top episode has a playable file.
The URL of your top media file is an amazon one; it begins with https (encrypted connection) and it used to be the case that the Store could not handle these. It's possible that more recently it has become able to, but it would be preferable to start your URLs with http.
Incidentally you have the 'enclosure' tag in three times - it doesn't really matter because even if they were different iTunes would read only the top one, but it's better to have just one.
Making sure my latest post had playable media did the trick, thank you Roger!
Dear Roger!
I'm gettin 'We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed' error , when i tried submit my podcast to the itunes.
My feed url is: http://robertorios.eu/podcast/edmystic.xml.
May i ask your help?
Thanks,
Robert
Your feed works OK whe subscribing manually in iTunes. However there are two errors which might possibly affect the Store (which can be a bit picky).
You are missing the opening declaration which should be in the very top line of the feed:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
However FeedValidator has not flagged this as an error, so I don't know whether it matters or not.
More problematic is your 'enclosure' tag:
<enclosure url="http://robertorios.eu/podcast/EDMystic001-RR.m4a" length="72271043" type="audio/mpeg"/>
Your 'type' attribute is incorrect and may be leading to the Store attempting to decode it as an MP3. It should read "audio/x-m4a".
Thanks, for your fast answer Roger! I'm fixing now the problems.
I fixed the problems, but i got the same message, when i re-submit it.
I add the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> line to the top.
And changed the file format audio/x-m4a
It not working Roger, do you see other mistakes? 😟
'UTF' should be upper-case, though I have no idea whether this actually matters. Otherwise all seems OK and if you continue to get problems I can't offer a reason. I can only suggest leaving it for a few days (and avoiding the weekend) and trying again in the hope that it's a glitch at their end.
"Difficulty Downloading Episodes from your feed" for iTunes directory, of course.
