Q: Itunes not downloading episodes for a podcast
I got the RSS feed ready to go but still Itunes won't download the episodes
Help please!
Posted on Aug 24, 2016 3:39 PM
Looking at your top episode, the 'enclosure' tag (which should contain the URL of your playable media file) reads:
<enclosure type="https://archive.org/details/Top20Forwards" url="https://archive.org/details/Top20Forwards" length="0" />
The URL you give leads to a web page with an embedded player: this won't do. You must provide a direct URL to the media file. You can get the URL from the 'VBR MP3' link in the sidebar at right. In this case it's
https://archive.org/download/Top20Forwards/Top%2020%20Forwards.mp3
You should change the https to http - this will still work.
In your 'enclosure' tag the 'type' must read 'audio/mpeg' and the 'length' should be the file size in bytes (without commas). You will need to do this with all your episodes; at present iTunes does not recognize your episodes as having media and so won't show them.
Posted on Aug 24, 2016 11:31 PM