Submitting a Podcast Error- Please Assist

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Submitting a Podcast Error- Please Assist

Greetings All,

I'm trying to submit a podcast that I am running through the blog version of wordpress by tagging the posts with #podcast, adding a link to where I host my mp3s on google drive, and then running the whole thing through feedburner. Here're my specs, please let me know what I might do to get this accepted. Every time I try to submit it to iTunes, it says: 'We are having difficulty downloading episodes from your feed'

I checked feedvalidator, and my feed is good with a couple errors I am not sure how to resolve, since you can't edit the XML source on feedburner:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Fgatew aygeekspodcast#l17

Here's my website: gatewaygeeks.com

And my feed : http://feeds.feedburner.com/gatewaygeekspodcast

Any help you all can give would be MOST appreciated.

Thanks!

Windows 10, podcasting

Posted on Oct 10, 2015 9:35 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 10, 2015 11:39 PM in response to Gateway Geeks

This is not a podcast feed. It has no 'enclosure' tags containing the URLs of your playable media files - indeed there appears to be no references to playable media anywhere.

The web page you link to has no episodes in it, but following the 'Archives' link to an episode produces a page with a link to a Google Drive URL. This brings up a media file but wrapped in a lot of Google coding.

You must provide a direct link to your actualmedia file, and if the URL is entered in a browser it must play there and not download. Google drive has proved problematic in the past and probably isn't the best place to host podcast media files.

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Answer 2

Oct 11, 2015 3:02 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thanks Roger! I moved some things around, took your sugestions. I hosted the podcasts on archive.org, put an iframe autoplayer in the post, and then a link to the direct file- it's being considered via itunes right now. THANK YOU!

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