Some of my podcast information is not showing up correctly (authors, and some episodes are missing)

The iTunes Store is showing the author exactly as it is in the feed: <itunes:author>noreply@blogger.com (Ad Byerly)</itunes:author>

It looks as if the feed was modified in some way only very recently. All the episodes show when subscribing, though they are in an odd order in the feed (iTunes sorts them by date, correctly). It's probable that the Store hasn't had time to catch up yet with the current contents of the feed - this can take a couple of days - and that the episodes will appear eventually. It's also possible that there is some sort of glitch going on - it wouldn't be the first time - but even if that's the case it should sort itself out eventually.

Images embedded in the files appear only when subscribing. You appear not to have any 'itunes:image' tags in the feed - you must have had originally or there wouldn't be an image in the Store. In order to get images to appear in the episode results in Search you also need this tag in each episode in addition to the one in the top section, which is used for the Store display.

I'm afraid I can't advise on how to use 'Smartcast' - I can only refer you to Feedburner's Help - though AFAIK when you use Smartcast for a particular tag it over-rides that tag in the original feed.

You would have to provide an image to Feedburner - it's odd though that the tag is not present in the original feed since there is an image in the Store. Possibly it is there in the original, but Feedburner has blocked it while failing to add the image itself. Try removing that facility in Smartcast and see whether the tag returns.

You must have filled out the name for the 'itunes:author' tag somewhere since it does have content; obviously you need to delete the email address and keep just your name.

I can't explain why, but there is no occurrence of the word 'image' in your feed. My guess is that the tag is present in the original feed, since you have an image in your Store page (which is cached and so remains until over-written) but Feedburner is failing to over-ride the tag.

It may or (more likely) not help, but if you post the URL of the original feed and also of the image it would at least give me a little more evidence.

The Soundcloud feed is essentially the same as the Feedburner one. It too has no 'itunes:image' tag and the contents of the 'itunes:author' tag are the same as I quoted in my first reply.

All this doesn't explain how you come to have an image in the Store. I can only conclude that you had the tag in the feed originally and it got removed, though it's difficult to see how that would happen. (Usually with facilities like this if you don't enter anything in a tag it remains in the feed, but empty). However the feed itself appears to have been made in Blogger, so how it comes to turn up with a Soundcloud URL I don't know.

That's quite possible - when I tried to access it in FireFox (my default RSS reader) it put up a notice that there was a redirect, so I downloaded it it from your link.

I'm still surprised you have an image specified in FeedBurner but no <itunes:image> shows in your feed. Actually, no images or tags show in your feed.

Is the "SmartCast" feature activated?

Is the "Include iTunes Podcasting Elements" checked?

-Fan

Perhaps try turning off the SmartCast feature and turning it back on? FeedBurner isn't showing the iTunes:image tag in your feed. This would be better answered by FeedBurner's podcast-specific forums:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/feedburner-podcasting

Report back!

-Fan

Looking at the image of the Smartcast entry fields you posted a while back, though I can't tell for sure from the image my guess is that you are providing a podcast image URL which leads to an Archive.org page, not to an actual image file. This would prevent Smartcast from creating the tag as it wouldn't see it as an image. To enable me to check whether this supposition has any basis could you post the URL you entered for your image.