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Episode does not appear on iTunes, but appears elsewhere or when subscribed

Hello,


I uploaded the fourth episode of my podcast today and was notified by the app Overcast that my episode is available to listen to. The episode appears in Overcast and plays just fine; however, the episode does not appear on my podcast's page in iTunes nor does it appear in the Podcast app unless you subscribe.


Here is the link to the episode when I tried to share it via the Podcast app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-original-podcast/id1071503575?mt=2#episo deGuid=http%3A%2F%2Fkyledempster7.podbean.com%2Fe%2F4-tuvok-and-neelix-sold-sepa rately%2F


As a comparison, here is a link to a different episode that IS appearing on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/2.-podcasting-gal-named-jones/id1071503575?i =361647167&mt=2 (it doesn't mention podbean.com)


Here's a link to the podcast's page: Hope that made sense.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-original-podcast/id1071503575?mt=2


Just curious why apps like Overcast (which apparently pull from iTunes) would show Episode 4, but iTunes will not. Thanks!

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Posted on Feb 1, 2016 12:05 AM

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Posted on Feb 1, 2016 8:46 PM

Episode 4 was posted less than 8 hours ago as I write, so it's quite normal for it not to have appeared in the iTunes Store yet. When you add a new episode to your feed and upload it, it appears immediately for subscribers because their iTunes application reads the feed directly and the Store is not involved.


However because of the huge number of podcasts in the Store (thousands) the Store caches the feed and checks it for updates periodically. For this reason it usually takes 1-2 days for new episodes to appear in the Store: sometimes it can be less, and occasionally the whole process seems to get stuck and it can take several days.

As episode 4 appears when subscribing in iTunes you can expect it to appear in the Store within a day or two.

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Roger Wilmut1
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Feb 1, 2016 8:46 PM in response to Kyle531

Episode 4 was posted less than 8 hours ago as I write, so it's quite normal for it not to have appeared in the iTunes Store yet. When you add a new episode to your feed and upload it, it appears immediately for subscribers because their iTunes application reads the feed directly and the Store is not involved.


However because of the huge number of podcasts in the Store (thousands) the Store caches the feed and checks it for updates periodically. For this reason it usually takes 1-2 days for new episodes to appear in the Store: sometimes it can be less, and occasionally the whole process seems to get stuck and it can take several days.

As episode 4 appears when subscribing in iTunes you can expect it to appear in the Store within a day or two.

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Episode does not appear on iTunes, but appears elsewhere or when subscribed

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