My iTunes won't accept my podcast submission/ validate it

it says that it cannot 'download episodes from my feed'. I am using Blogspot and Feedburner to create my podcast, and I'm hosting all my files on Google Drive, is anyone familiar with these programs when creating a podcast that is able to help me out? My feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatAMessPodcast. Thanks!

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Posted on Jul 5, 2016 9:51 PM

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Jul 5, 2016 11:33 PM in response to littleemma31

The media file URL referenced in your 'enclosure' tag is a Google drive one. This does not have an extension - e.g. .mp3 - and thus iTunes does not recognize it as a media file. Indeed it isn't a media file, but a web page with an embedded player. This won't work - you must provide a direct link to the media file, it must include the extension, and when the URL is entered in a browser it must play in the browser, not appear in an embedded player or force a download.


I have to say that Google Drive has consistently caused problems, and I am not sure that anyone has actually got it to work for podcasting. The best advice would be to find somewhere else to host your files - ordinary webspace would do provided that it can handle 'byte range requests' and cope with a reasonable number or hits.

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