We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed.

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apocistestel Author

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We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed.

(The overused question)

It seems iTunes gives this error while attempting to submit a Podcast feed. at

https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/publishPodcast or

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

The feed's url is:

http://www.cpcstl.org/site/resources/multimedia/podcast?category_id=3764434

I can "Subscribe to Podcast" it it works just fine. Also http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cpcstl.org%2Fsite%2F resources%2Fmultimedia%2Fpodcast%3Fcategory_id%3D3764434 checks out well enough. Am I missing something?

Thanks

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Posted on Feb 26, 2015 5:15 PM

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Feb 27, 2015 12:00 AM in response to apocistestel

The top two episodes of your feed have no media files. The Store checks only the top episode, and does not display episodes with no media, hence the rejection.

None of your episodes have itunes:subtitle or itunes:summary tags so no descriptions will show; and without itunes:duration tags the Store cannot display the duration and the iTunes application cannot until the file is downloaded in each case. None of this should cause rejection but it would be best to have these tags.

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