"Difficulty downloading episodes" from a weebly powered site

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"Difficulty downloading episodes" from a weebly powered site

I've read a lot of the similar questions/answers but don't know if those answers apply to mine. I created a new rss feed through feedburner after having issues with my weebly-generated rss, so now the feed is valid, but I don't know if I'm uploading the podcast files wrong because I got the "difficulty downloading episodes" issue with iTunes. What can I do to fix this?

My site is www.soundingthelight.com/podcasts

The feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoundingTheLight-Podcasts

Posted on Mar 4, 2015 7:33 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 4, 2015 7:55 AM in response to Community User

Your feed has no 'enclosure' tags, containing the URLs of your media files, as required by iTunes. Your media files are referenced in the 'content:encoded' tags but iTunes does not read these. I can't advise on Weebly, and I don't know whether it's possible to get it to produce a proper podcast feed. You may be able to add the 'enclosure' tags using Feedburner's 'Smartcast' facility - you do have other iTunes tags such as 'itunes:subtitle', 'itunes:subtitle' and 'itunes:duration'.

However the image referenced in your 'itunes:image' tag is 800 x 800px and this will not be accepted - it must be 1400 x 1400px (and less than 500kB) or the feed will be rejected.

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Answer 2

Mar 4, 2015 8:06 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thank you for your reply! I'll check into smartcast. I had read the issues about the 1400x1400 size so I changed the image to that, but I guess it somehow changed itself to 800x800, maybe during the upload to the site? I'll see if I can fix that again.

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Answer 3

Mar 4, 2015 8:08 AM in response to Community User

Some of these sites shrink the image (they may be trying to match the requirements which applied some years ago) but it may be that Weebly isn't designed to produce an iTunes-compliant feed.

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