For the life of me I cannot figure out why I am getting the error "We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed."
The link to my xml file is:
http://justjesuschrist.com/just-jesus-rss.xml
Thanks!
Jennifer Cowles
The URL given for your top episode's media file is
http://JustJesusChrist.com/media/podcasts/Audio/001 Introduction.mp3
This, and the other episode files, have a space after the episode number. Spaces are not allowed in a URL, so iTunes sees the URL as ending after the number (as does this forum's software when it turns the URL into a link), and of course that won't work. You must either remove the space or replace it with an underscore or a hyphen in both the filename and the feed; or alternatively you can replace the space in the feed with the code %20 and leave the file alone, though this is not the preferable option.
The URL given for your top episode's media file is
http://JustJesusChrist.com/media/podcasts/Audio/001 Introduction.mp3
This, and the other episode files, have a space after the episode number. Spaces are not allowed in a URL, so iTunes sees the URL as ending after the number (as does this forum's software when it turns the URL into a link), and of course that won't work. You must either remove the space or replace it with an underscore or a hyphen in both the filename and the feed; or alternatively you can replace the space in the feed with the code %20 and leave the file alone, though this is not the preferable option.
Roger,
Beautiful!!! That worked, thanks so much!!
Jen
I am getting so discouraged. Now, after 3 weeks, Apple support still tells me my podcast is not downloadedable. What on Earth is going on? Is there still something wrong in the xml file? I am still subscribed in Itunes and all seems happy there!
http://justjesuschrist.com/just-jesus-rss.xml
Thanks!
Jennifer Cowles
I'm afraid i can't see any reason for this. The file works OK in a browser, and testing in Terminal shows the server handling byte-range requests. CastFeedValidator doesn't ind anything wrong with that, though it complains that the URL for episode 3 has an invalid character in it, which I can't confirm. (The 'guid' tag for episode 11 has a space in the URL but this wouldn't produce the problem you are having).
I can only suggest you contact the people running your server and ask if they can check the logs and see if requests from the Store are being handled properly.
When submitting my podcast, getting the elusive error "We had difficulty downloading episodes from you feed"
