Updating podcast artwork

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Updating podcast artwork

Hello, our podcast is hosted on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/artcinemafartcinema

It was recently published on the iTunes Store for the first time through this RSS feed: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:383377190/sounds.rss

Its iTunes version is here: Art Cinema, Fart Cinema by Art Cinema, Fart Cinema on Apple Podcasts

Small issue though - since it was released on the iTunes Store we have changed the podcast's artwork in Soundcloud, but this change has not transferred over to the iTunes version of the podcast.

We also changed the podcast's description but weirdly enough this has successfully transferred over to iTunes.

Is there any reason for the artwork not changing? We are very keen for the podcast to show the updated art in the store. Sorry if this is an obvious question!

Posted on Aug 30, 2018 4:31 PM

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Aug 31, 2018 4:01 AM in response to artcinema

The main image has now changed (right). As to the individual episodes, there are two considerations here. When subscribers play an episode, the image which appears has to be actually embedded in the media file. You have done this with episodes 1-4, the image being the same as the main one.

When searching on the title, the Search results show the episode with an image (very small) - these are drawn from the 'itunes:image' tags within your 'item' tags - each of these is currently different, and most of the episodes showing in the search don't match (the Search is often very slow to update). If you want these to be all the same you need to change those tags and wait for the Search results to update.

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Aug 31, 2018 3:49 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thank you very much, we had not realised that the SoundCloud cropped the image. Fixed now!

One other related issue - the artwork for the individual podcast episodes are still all either the old cover artwork or the artwork created for Soundcloud for the individual episodes. We are keen to have them all be unified under the new podcast artwork in iTunes, how can this be changed?

Thanks again, very very helpful of you!

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Aug 31, 2018 3:46 AM in response to artcinema

Your new image is 1204 x 1204px which is below the minimum requirement of 1400 x 1400 px and so will not update.

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