Problem Validating - Cannot download episodes

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Problem Validating - Cannot download episodes

I have a podcast on iTunes already hosted on Squarespace. Everything is fine with it. Just recently started a second podcast through Squarespace. This RSS feed keeps failing validation saying:

"Can't download episodes from your feed"

This is my feed url:

http://www.electricianu.com/podcast?format=rss

https://www.journey2master.com/podcast?format=rss is my other podcast that's been going fine for a year now, so I know I have the feed URL correct - all squarespace urls have ?format=rss at the end.

I've tried using https: AND http: - neither work. All of my values are entered (title, author, email, etc) Also when trying to validate, my artwork, all details, and episodes available pop up in the validation page...just says failed. Artwork is 1400x1400 jpg

Any ideas?

Posted on May 15, 2018 2:22 PM

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Roger Wilmut1

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May 15, 2018 2:36 PM in response to journey2master

Podcasts Connect checks only the top episode in your feed: your top episode, 12, does not have an 'enclosure' tag containing the UL of your playable media. Indeed you don't have any playable media until you get down to episode 5. When you mix episodes with and without media iTunes and the Store will not display those episode with no media. You need to do something to arrange that the top episode has an 'enclosure' tag.

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May 15, 2018 3:12 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

I noticed the HTML in the feed URL was referencing the most recent episode so I thought that might have had something to do with it. Just finished updating the audio for all current episodes and it worked like a charm!

Thank you my friend!

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