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Q: I am getting a new error

After submitting 43 episodes successfully I am suddenly getting this error despite not changing any of my settings:

 

Can’t parse your feed. Invalid XML: Error on line 41: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1b) was found in the CDATA section.


The episode is downloadable from iTunes, but is not showing on the podcasts app nor are you able to update the podcast feed in the podcasts app.

Posted on Jun 28, 2016 8:18 AM

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Q: I am getting a new error

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Jun 28, 2016 9:03 AM in response to GRTrouble
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    Jun 28, 2016 9:03 AM in response to GRTrouble

    Well, I'd have looked at the feed and tried to find out what you've managed to insert in it to cause this (one of the most usual culprits is 'curly quotes') if you had taken the logical step of actually posting the feed URL.

  • by GRTrouble,

    GRTrouble GRTrouble Jun 28, 2016 9:26 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Jun 28, 2016 9:26 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Not sure if you mean the Mirror URL or what.

     

    This is what Apple gives me: https://pcr.apple.com/id968069635

     

    I don't manually create the info being sent to iTunes, it's all done by Libsyn after I upload the episode from my end.  I'm just not sure how it could be downloadable from iTunes but not available on the podcast app.

  • by Robert Walch,

    Robert Walch Robert Walch Jun 28, 2016 10:21 AM in response to GRTrouble
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    Jun 28, 2016 10:21 AM in response to GRTrouble

    Your actual RSS feed for your show is - http://groundruletrouble.libsyn.com/rss

     

    And this is now validating fine.  There was some extra code in your description - make sure not to copy your description from a word doc.

     

    Word docs add in hidden code.

     

    Rob W

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Jun 28, 2016 10:26 AM in response to GRTrouble
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    Jun 28, 2016 10:26 AM in response to GRTrouble

    In your top episode, at the beginning of its 'description' tag, after the '<p>' and before the text begins there is a spurious character. It doesn't show up in most ways of reading the code, but in PageSpinner it simply shows as an unknown character:

    Screen Shot 2016-06-28 at 18.20.24.jpg

    The usual explanation for this sort of thing is that you've pasted the text in having written it in a word processor, and some hidden code has come in with it. You should delete this entry and either type the text in directly or write it in a plain text editor such as TextEdit (Mac) and copy it from there. All these tags containing text need to contain only plain text and no odd character of any sort, or problems arise. It's this particular character which is rendering your feed unreadable.

     

    EDIT: You seem to have cleared this while I was posting. The feed now appears to be OK.

  • by Robert Walch,

    Robert Walch Robert Walch Jun 28, 2016 10:24 AM in response to GRTrouble
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    Jun 28, 2016 10:24 AM in response to GRTrouble

    You do still have one issue however - your artwork is no square.

     

    Here are the official specs on what your artwork size should be.

     

    1,400 x 1,400 pixels (min) to 3,000 x 3,000 pixels (max) - SQUARE

    .jpg or .png

    RGB color

    AND

    <500 kb file size.

     

    Make sure when uploading your new artwork - you change the file name for the new artwork so it is different then the file name of the current artwork.

     

    Make the change for the artwork under the settings section in your libsyn account.

     

    Rob W

  • by GRTrouble,

    GRTrouble GRTrouble Jun 28, 2016 11:03 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Jun 28, 2016 11:03 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Thanks for all the replies.  I think this must be it because on this one I pasted it back into my description from my wordpress site after having it disappear from my libsyn description field.