Older podcasts are not showing in my channel, but are in feed

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Older podcasts are not showing in my channel, but are in feed

Good afternoon,

The store I manage is:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/american-welding-online/id505523313

My feed URL is:

http://awo.aws.org/category/podcast/feed/

I am no longer able to see all the podcasts within my feed in my store's listing. A few months ago the location of the podcast video files on the server was changed by the server admin and a redirect was put into place (unbeknownst to me at the time). We have been able to upload new podcasts using the same source URL since then and they are showing in the iTunes preview perfectly. However, although the feed contains 30 episodes, the iTunes preview only shows the latest 10 (which I believe may be the ones that were added to the feed after the redirection was put into place).

Our site is built with WordPress and we use the Blubrry PowerPress plugin to manage our subscription. I have checked in the settings to be sure the feed is specified to show the latest 30 episodes and the feed does in fact look like it is doing so.

I tried entering the direct URL of the podcast video file's new location into one of our (the 11th) episodes, and waited a couple of days to see if it would show, but no luck.

Can you please let me know how I can fix this issue?

Thank you in advance for your help,

Jess

MacBook Pro, iOS 9.1

Posted on Nov 12, 2015 9:41 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 12, 2015 9:54 AM in response to iLoveWebDesign

There are 30 episodes in the feed but only to have playable episodes. iTunes does not display episodes which have no playable media, which is why only the 10 which do are showing. (Other mp4 files appear to be referenced in description or other tags, but they must be in an 'enclosure' tag for iTunes to display them).

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Answer 2

Nov 12, 2015 10:00 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thank you, I will look into fixing my feed.

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Answer 3

Nov 12, 2015 10:10 AM in response to iLoveWebDesign

I'm sorry, but I took a look at my feed and I do see an <enclosure> tag for all the items. The last one looks like this:

Am I looking in the wrong place?

Thank you again for your help.

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Answer 4

Nov 12, 2015 10:17 AM in response to iLoveWebDesign

This it true of the feed at http://awo.aws.org/category/podcast/feed/

The thing is, that's not the feed iTunes is using. The Store is looking for a feed at http://awo.aws.org/feed/ and this has only the 10 episodes with enclosures as I described. You are going to need either to get the contents of the working feed into the URL I quote above, or add a special tag to the existing feed at that address to redirect iTunes to using the correct feed, as described here:

http://wilmut.uk/move

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Answer 5

Nov 12, 2015 10:18 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thank you very much Roger. I appreciate your prompt response and support.

Have a great day,

Jess

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