Podcasts Artwork not showing in Itunes

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Podcasts Artwork not showing in Itunes

Hi Guys,

I have podcasts hosted from my wordpress server. I have the feeds validated and Itunes accept them but for some reason only Itunes does not show the Artwork.

The image is 1500 x 1500 and is about 1.1MB in size.

Itunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-weekly-thought-podcast/id1076270494

RSS Feed Link: http://www.rawlabradio.com/?feed=rss2&cat=8

Image Link: http://www.rawlabradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/THEWEEK.jpg

Validated link1: http://castfeedvalidator.com/?url=http://www.rawlabradio.com/?feed=rss2&cat=8

Validated link2: http://podba.se/validate/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawlabradio.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2% 26cat%3D8

This issue is effecting all 3 podcasts hosted so I suspect it could be the same cause. Could it be the file size? should it be under 300KB? or am I missing something? Problem with the feed ect???

Thanks in advance for any help!

Posted on Sep 6, 2016 8:54 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 7, 2016 3:51 PM in response to Tizm

Although Apple's help pages on podcasting don't bother to specify this, images larger than 500kB are likely to be rejected; as the dimensions are OK this is the most likely explanation. You should be able to increase the compression without affecting the quality too seriously; when you do this I should give the image a different filename and amend the feed accordingly.

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Tizm Author

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Sep 7, 2016 3:51 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thanks Roger, I updated one of the podcast feeds with a compressed image under 300kb and it worked. Thanks again.

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