Can’t submit your feed. There is no category tag in your feed, or the category tag is empty.

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crogers2287 Author

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Can’t submit your feed. There is no category tag in your feed, or the category tag is empty.

Hello, Trying to update my feed in Podcast connect and keep getting an error stating:

Can’t submit your feed. Your feed was previously submitted.

Can’t submit your feed. There is no category tag in your feed, or the category tag is empty.

http://www.tastelessart.com/feed_ts.xml

In the attached screenshot the XML error about line 22 I believe is from the old feed, which is no longer existent/accessible.

http://i.imgur.com/F4u5hvR.png

I have tried every possible way to change the category tags and am still having the issue.

Any help would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Posted on Apr 16, 2016 12:01 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 16, 2016 12:17 PM in response to crogers2287

The 'link' tag is OK. However there is indeed no 'itunes:category' tag. There's no indication of how you have constructed your feed except that the link is to Blogspot - however this doesn't appear to be a Blogspot feed. Your feed won't be accepted without the 'itunes:category' tag. There is an Apple Help page on categories at https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/?lang=en#/itcb54353390 and a list of categories at https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itc9267a2f12

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crogers2287 Author

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Apr 16, 2016 12:18 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

The itunes category tag is there though. http://i.imgur.com/nqFKfd9.png

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crogers2287 Author

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Apr 16, 2016 12:24 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

The strange thing is, I can subscribe directly to the feed through itunes no problem. It just wont let me update the actual podcast to the new feed. This new feed is pretty much a carbon copy of the old one, the only difference is the new feed reflecting the new host for the media files.

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Answer 4

Apr 16, 2016 1:34 PM in response to crogers2287

crogers2287 wrote:

The itunes category tag is there though. http://i.imgur.com/nqFKfd9.pngry'

There is no 'itunes:category' tag in the feed at http://www.tastelessart.com/feed_ts.xml

Subscribing isn't relevant as the iTunes application doesn't display the tag, however the Store display requires it.

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crogers2287 Author

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Apr 16, 2016 7:22 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

I'm not sure why it got removed, but even after adding it back, I still get the same error.

http://i.imgur.com/JEatFCW.png

http://i.imgur.com/UON2Md1.png

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Answer 6

Apr 16, 2016 11:32 PM in response to crogers2287

You have a category tag now, but it is showing 'Literature' which is a sub-category, not a category. You need 'Arts' as the category and 'Literature as the sub-category:

<itunes:category text="Arts">

<itunes:category text="Literature" />

</itunes:category>

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