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Difficulty submitting my podcast feed

Hello: When I try to submit my podcast to iTunes, I get an error message indicating that the service is having "difficulty" finding my episodes. I tried to add the correct tags but have gotten nowhere. Any help would be appreciated.


Here are my Soundcloud and Feedburner links https://soundcloud.com/jd-berr/berr-show-episode-1...http://feeds.feedburner.com/BerrsWorld

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Posted on Jun 1, 2015 7:38 AM

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Jun 1, 2015 8:05 AM in response to Jon Berrbver

Your second link is to your feed, which is what you submit to iTunes. It's not a podcast feed; there are no 'enclosure' tags containing the URLs of the media files for your episodes, as required by iTunes. Furthermore there is no URL of a playable file anywhere in the feed that I could see. The first link you give is not to a media file but to a Soundcloud page containing a player for your file: this won't work.


Firstly you must provide a direct URL to the media file, beginning with http not https, including the extension - e.g. .mp3 - and which will play in a browser window when you enter the URL in the address bar and not in a web page with an embedded player; and it must play and not force a download. I can't advise on how to make Soundcloud provide this or whether their server is suitable - it needs to be capable of handling 'byte range requests', the method used by iPhones, or your feed will be rejected.


Then you have to get Wordpress to provide a proper podcast feed. You may find this WordPress instructional page on podcasting helpful:https://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/podcasting/

Difficulty submitting my podcast feed

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