Hey there,
I have a podcast feed and I'm used to add new chapters every month. Each chapter with a different cover.
It's been a while since all the cover stopped showing up on itunes and in the podcast app on my iphone.
Am I doing something wrong? Any help?🙂
It's not really possible to comment unless you would like to publish the URLs of both your feed and the Store page - this latter can be found by control-clicking on the podcast image (or where it should be) - and choosing 'Copy link'. Please include the http:// in both cases to make the links clickable.
Thanks Roger!
The links:
FEED
http://www.totemnet.com.br/podcast/totempodcast_new.xml
ITUNES PAGE
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/totem-podcast/id209243678
Do you need anymore information!?
iTunes is not using the feed at the URL you give, but the one at
http://www.totemnet.com.br/podcast/totempodcast.xml
They appear to be the same. You don't have an 'itunes:image' tag so no image will appear in your Store page; and you don't have the 'iTunes declaration' in the second line which is necessary for iTunes to read its various tags.
I checked your latest episode: it has an embedded image which appears when subscribing in iTunes and playing the episode. I can't check on the Podcasts app, not having an iOS device, but I believe it does not show the embedded images.
Thanks for the help, but continuous doesn't working... 😟
I tried different ways but not working.
I changed the image folder, increased the size to 600 x 600 but still does not appear. And iTunes takes a day to index the changes ... the process is very time consuming.
I put the tags itunes only in the early episodes, before changing the whole feed, you think this can be a problem?
Thanks!!
You do not have an 'itunes:image' tag in the top section of your feed, between the 'channel' tag and the first 'item' tag; without this no image will appear in the Store. The image must be 1400 x 1400 px, JPG or PNG, RGB colour space, and less than 500kB. The 'itunes:image' tags within the 'item' tags are irrelevant.
I just take off the image because this image is just the cover of podcast, I want put a different cover in each episode.
So how can I put different image in each episode if image in tag <item> is irrelevant?
It's a good idea to have an image in the Store.
You can have individual images display when subscribing and playing in iTunes by embedding them in the media file - I see I commented that you have already done this with your top episode; I didn't check the others. Note that you have to be actually playing the episode to see the image. The image in the 'itunes:image' tag within the 'item' tag does not show there or in the Store. If you are unclear about it one method for embedding the image the file is detailed here:
Some podcast creation programs do this for you automatically.
Thanks Roger,
I'll back ith th eimage of podcast channel.
But all of my mp3 files have your own each image in file.
And the more strange is that the itunes and itunes app always showed this images. And now all the covers stopped showing.
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong :/
I checked a couple of random episodes and the images worked fine as in the picture on the right. As I say, you have to be actually playing the episode; you can get the large image up by command-clicking (Mac) or control-clicking (Windows) on the small image at the top.
The individual images will not appear in the iTunes Store itself - they never did.
As I say, I don't have an iOS device so I can't check it there, but I have a feeling that it doesn't handle the embedded images, which would seem reasonable given its method of downloading only a part of the file at a time.
my podcast cover doesn't display in itunes an podcast app
