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Help with uploading podcast on itunes

I created a podcast on blogger blog and I am trying to upload it on itunes and it keeps given an error "The feed has no episodes". I have validated my feed and it's good to go. Please Please help. I have tried eevrything! Thanks. Here's my feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/theyacker/HUWj

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Posted on Mar 23, 2015 12:03 PM

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Mar 23, 2015 3:59 PM in response to Fleurvid

In fact your feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/theyacker - the URL you give has nothing on it.


The feed is not a podcast feed: it has no 'enclosure' tags containing the URLs of your playable media files, and indeed there is no reference anywhere to mp3. You have no 'itunes:...' tags such as subtitle, summary, duration, author etc. You have constructed your feed in Blogger but it has made a blog feed, not a podcast feed - probably because you haven't given it any media file URLs (your page at http://the-yacker.blogspot.co.uk/ doesn't have any media files either).


You may find it helpful to look at my 'get you started' page on podcasting:


http://wilmut.uk/pc


It includes a sample basic feed - I'm not suggesting you should hand-write your feed but it will show you what one should look like. Blogger should be able to create a podcast feed if you submit mp3 files to it, but I can't advise on specifics.

Mar 24, 2015 11:26 AM in response to Fleurvid

The feed at that URL appears to be OK. It can be subscribed to manually in iTunes and works there, and the media file works OK. The server appears to support byte range requests as required by the iTunes Store.


The only errors in the feed aren't likely to cause problems: the 'length' attribute inside your 'enclosure' tag is set to '0' - it should be the file size in bytes. You have the html code (non-breaking space) in your 'itunes:summary' tags - this isn't fatal, just untidy because iTunes will display the code, not render it, so you should remove these. You have 'itunes:author' tags inside your 'item' tags where they won't do any god (and they display the email address, it should be your name). You don't have an 'itunes:author' tag in the main section so no author will show in the Store. None of this should get your podcast rejected.


Is this indeed the URL you have submitted to iTunes? - the one you originally quoted wouldn't have worked. I can't see any serious problem with this one, though archive.org may possibly cause problems (though I don't see any at the moment, the file behaves correctly) - if you can host your media file elsewhere it might be worth trying.

Mar 24, 2015 3:04 PM in response to Fleurvid

The URL you've given for your image is


http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w362/fleurxav1/Chick%20chat%20picmonkey_zpsy 7hfjh6s.png


This is not an image: it's a Photobucket web page containing the image. This won't work; obviously you must provide a direct URL to the actual image. The URLs they provide in the right sidebar all lead back to the web page.

Mar 25, 2015 12:40 AM in response to Fleurvid

This is another hosting service which isn't providing a direct access to the file. On opening the URL in a browser I get a web page saying 'the image has been scaled down to fit your screen' and I can't find a URL for the image itself. You need to host this on a straightforward web server. the image must b 1400 x 1400, and less than 500kB.

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