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Q: Can’t download episodes from your feed

I have my feedburner url and i am trying to submit the podcast to iTunes but it shows Cannot download episodes from the feed. My posts are in wordpress which has audio files which needs to be submitted to iTunes podcast. The audio in wordpress post are hosted on google drive and their url are embedded to the post using <audio control> element where src is defined.


Is there a problem with the audio control element or something else please help me in figuring out.

 

the feed burner url is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/bhagawadgeeta/podcasts

Posted on Aug 13, 2016 8:52 PM

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Aug 13, 2016 11:36 PM in response to bhagawadgeeta
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    Aug 13, 2016 11:36 PM in response to bhagawadgeeta

    This is not a podcast feed. You have no 'enclosure' tags containing the URLs of your media files, as required by iTunes; you have media files referenced in the 'content:encoded' tags but iTunes does not read these.  Wordpress have a Help page on podcasting which should enable you to take the steps necessary to form the feed properly:

     

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/podcasting/

     

    However you are storing your media files on Google Drive and this is not going to work. The URL must show the extension (e.g. .mp3) and should not begin with https; we've had numerous people reporting problems with Google Drive and I don't think we've ever seen anyone get it to work. You should find somewhere else to host your files. Any ordinary webspace will do provided it handles 'byte range requests' (the method used by iPhones to download the files) and is capable of handling the bandwidth.

  • by kcptdigital,

    kcptdigital kcptdigital Aug 16, 2016 9:14 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Aug 16, 2016 9:14 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Hi Roger,

     

    Is there any reason why Apple doesn't support https?? Wouldn't they want encryption?

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Aug 16, 2016 10:09 AM in response to kcptdigital
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    Aug 16, 2016 10:09 AM in response to kcptdigital

    Until recently https files wouldn't work in the Store; they do now mostly seem to work but I would still regard it as better avoided - and not really necessary with this sort of thing.