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Q: Feedburner not uploading eps to iTunes

I'm brand new at podcasting and XML and all the techonolgy involved in getting a feed into iTunes so apologies in advance!

 

I created a feed in SoundCloud originally and set that up to connect to iTunes. Success! My image, title, and episodes were going up to iTunes seamlessly.

Then learned that I'd only be able to upload 3 hours worth of episodes. So I decided to upload all of the episodes to Google Drive and created a Blogger site to host them.

 

Blogger Feed: http://wedopodcast.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

 

Then I created a feedburner feed so I can get some stats

 

Feedburner Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wedopodcast

 

After this I put the Feedburner Feed url into the "Subscriber Redirect" area of my Soundcloud. What I expected was for Itunes to go to soundcloud for my feed and be redirected to Feedburner and pick up all four episodes which were in my Blogger feed.

 

Unfortunately, this didn't work. Itunes showed no episodes and replaced the owner name with "noreply@blogger.com" The icon wasn't available. (The icon thing I understand - Feedburner won't let me use a google drive URL to host my image so I would expect itunes to not pick this up.)

 

Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it on Feedburner/Blogger?

 

tl;dr

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1) Feedburner feed is not sending my episodes to iTunes, despite the feed passing in the Feed Validator and showing them correctly in the "view my feed" area of Feedburner

2) How do I change the email address to display my actual email address? Where is Feedburner pulling this noreply@blogger.comfrom?

Posted on May 7, 2016 11:09 AM

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 May 7, 2016 2:08 PM in response to msulli15
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    May 7, 2016 2:08 PM in response to msulli15

    Searching on the title of your podcast in iTunes brings up no result. What is the URL of your iTunes Store page?

     

    The blogspot URL you quote doesn't work at all, it just brings up a blank page.

     

    The Feedburner feed has four episodes. However they will not show in iTunes because the URLs (which are Google Feedproxy ones) do not have the extension, e.g. .m4a. They redirect to a Google Drive URL which isn't a direct link to the file but is a web page with an embedded player. This isn't going to work; and Google Drive isn't a suitable place to host your files, it's caused endless problems with podcasting. Any normal webspace server will do provided it can cope with 'byte range requests' (the method used by iPhones to download files, and this is mandatory).

     

    Links to your media files must be directly to the file (Feedproxy will work provided it's a proper link to the file) and it must play directly in a browser when you enter the URL in its address bar, not in an embedded player. The URL in the feed must include the extension, otherwise iTunes won't recognize it as a playable media and won't show the episode.

     

    As I can't access your iTunes Store page I don't know which feed it's using, but it's possible that if it's using the Feedburner feed that your podcast has been removed as having no episodes. You will need to check this with the Store page URL.

     

    As to 'noreply@blogger.com' that's what Blogger puts in its feeds: Feedburner is just reflecting that. I don't know whether you can change this, quite likely not.