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Cannot post artwork for iTunes podcast

My artwork does not meet requirements here is the feed Link.. someone please help!!!


http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhenTheScripturesBecomeRealPodcast

Posted on Dec 11, 2017 7:12 AM

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Posted on Dec 11, 2017 11:58 AM

My podcast is currently on feedburner. Everything works but the artwork. Any ideas? I’d rather not switch. I just want my artwork to fit requirements and i can’t get iit to work. Any ideas strictly in artwork?

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Dec 11, 2017 8:22 AM in response to jpugh24

The URL in your 'itunes:image' tag is


http://i67.tinypic.com/2hdsm7m.jpg


This is not an image, but redirects to


http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2hdsm7m&s=9#.Wi6tIRTAVtU


which is a web page which includes your image. This won't do: you must provide a direct link to the actual image. TinyPic provide a supposed 'direct link for layouts' but the URL there leads straight back to the web page. It rather looks as if you should find somwhere else to host the image.


You do have a direct link to an image in your 'image' tag (which iTunes does not read):


yt3.ggpht.com/-ktMNoG9FSY0/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/wmG8_aVxJXA/s240-c-k-no-mo-rj -c0xffffff/photo.jpg


(I removed the http:// because otherwise the forum software will truncate it). However this is 240 by 240 px and so isn't acceptable.


The image itself must be minimum 1400 x 1400 px, maximum 3000 x 3000 px (there's no point in going that large, though), JPG or PNG, RGB, and must be less than 500kB.


You have a different image in the 'itunes:image' tag for each episode, however these do not appear on your Store page. The one for episode 5 is https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UtEq45viGwQ/maxresdefault.jpg and is 1280 x 720 px - it should be square.


You have made use of the 'itunes:order' tag, but this has resulted in Episode 5, the latest, being numbered '0' and then episodes 4,3,2,1 being numbered 1,2,3,4. This is going to result in your having to renumber all these tags every time you add an episode. You don't need it anyway: the Store and iTunes itself will display episodes in reverse order - latest on top - anyway, unless a different order is specified, which you presumably don't want. I should just remove these tags.

Dec 11, 2017 8:26 AM in response to jpugh24

Any plain web server will do provided it handles 'head' requests. The Store caches the image (which does not appear when subscribing in iTunes - neither do the ones in the episode tage whish I mentioned) so bandwidth shouldn't be a problem. Avoid hosting sites which place your image in a web page.


Another point: you have no 'itunes:author' tag in the top section of the feed (before the first 'item' tag) containing your name or organization. It's advisable to have this, and necessary if you have any hopes of being 'featured' (though the chances of that are low).

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