'We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed', but adding podcast manually works fine

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Trumpkin Author

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'We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed', but adding podcast manually works fine

Hi all,

I'm getting the infamous 'We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed.' error, but I'm not sure why!

Here's the feedburner link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnythingButA1Podcast

Hosted via: https://anythingbuta1podcast.wordpress.com/

If I add the podcast manually it works fine, no issues, but when I try to submit it get the above error. Does anyone know if I'm doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance,

-A

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Oct 7, 2015 3:17 AM

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Roger Wilmut1

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Oct 7, 2015 12:25 PM in response to Trumpkin

Your top episode does not have an 'enclosure' tag containing the URL of a playable media file, although your second episode down does. iTunes checks only the top episode in the feed when submitted, and does not display episodes with no playable media. If you remove the top episode for the moment (or take steps to get a playable media file into it) you should be OK as the other episode appears to be fine.

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Trumpkin Author

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Oct 7, 2015 12:26 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Fantastic! Thank you, that worked right away. I temporarily deleted the post with no audio and iTunes accepted my podcast immediately.

Thank you very much! 😁

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