Episode title missing first word

Our podcast, Friendlier, launched a new episode this morning. Specifically on the Apple podcast app on iPhones, the first word of the episode title is missing from people's feeds. Full episode title "Friendlier friendships" appears as "friendships". The title appears correctly in the desktop version of iTunes, and the full title is also there in the iPhone podcast app if you search Friendlier and look at the list of episodes. I did try downloading the episode straight from that list and it drops the first word and just says the second word—"friendships" all lower case—in the app's player.


We're hosting our podcast with Pippa, and have already contacted them for help. The title of this episode appears correctly on other platforms; it is just iphones that seem to be struggling, and I have checked on multiple phones to see whether each one is having this problem (they are).


Could this be a problem because the first word of the episode title is the same as the name of the podcast?

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Posted on May 9, 2017 12:41 PM

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May 9, 2017 5:12 PM in response to abigailoh

This is entirely an issue with the Podcasts app - your feed appears to be OK and as you say everything appears correctly in iTunes. I don't know why this should be the case - the only slightly odd thing is that your titles are wrapped in a 'CDATA' tag:


<title><![CDATA[Friendlier friendships]]></title>


This doesn't appear to be upsetting iTunes or the iTunes Store at all; I can't see any point in doing it like this but it shouldn't be a problem. I can't help you with why it's upsetting the Podcasts app (I don't have an iOS device) - if no-one else chips in here you might be better off asking in the Podcasts for iOS forum.

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