brogdonm
Level 1
(4 points)
Q: "Can't download episodes from your feed"
I have been handed a feed that was setup by someone else in the past. I have most of the errors fixed (fixed artwork, fixed illegal characters in titles, etc.). But when I go to add the feed to the apple podcast store, I get the error "Can't download episodes from your feed". I have searched through the discussions and seemed like most of the time it was because of invalid enclosures, but I checked and they seem to be downloading fine. Could someone take a look and provide some feedback?
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Roger Wilmut1
Level 9
(78,525 points)
The problem is that you have a mixture of episodes with enclosures and episodes without. Your top episode doesn't have an enclosure and this is the only one which is checked when you submit a feed. As there isn't one the feed is being rejected.
It's not a good idea to mix episode types this way. The episodes which don't have enclosures won't appear in the Store or when subscribing. At present you appear to have Wordpress showing only 10 episodes in the feed, after which older ones are removed (of course you may have only 10 so far). If you mix episodes and the number is limited then very few episodes will appear in the Store. You should be able to increase the number shown in the Wordpress settings which would get round that problem, but really it's better to have only playable episodes in a podcast feed. You may find that Wordpress also produces a podcast feed with only those episodes, and if so you could submit that to Feedburner. Otherwise you need to delete the top episode or your feed won't be accepted.
