Podcast Rejected-Not sure why?

Podcasts Connect says your feed has been submitted, so I can't check the validation there. Is it the case that you successfully submitted, and were rejected by email at a later point? - that would be for content reasons.

Your 'itunes:explicit' tags are all set to "clean", meaning there is no strong or sexual language in the episodes concerned. This is really meant for swearing, of course, and I don't know whether the sort of discussion you are presenting would trigger this. Possibly it might do, if Apple feel that some listeners might be offended and so should be warned off. You could try changing all the tags (including the one in the top section before the first 'item' tag) to "yes".

As to the music, I would suggest working in a reference in the overall description (the 'itunes:summary' tag in the top section of the feed) to the fact that you own the music as Apple have no way of knowing this and may have assumed that you are using copyright music.

I can't advise on how you use Libsyn to add to the description - you should ask them. You do have a description, so presumably you can add to that in the same way you actually entered it. Just say something like 'the introductory music is owned by me' (I'm assuming that you actually purchased the rights to use the music, not just the recording itself - it does sound as if you've done that.)

You might want to consider shortening the title - it's very long (and so is the author tag, which appears in the Store after the categories) and I'm dubious that the Store will actually display all of it. I should put the subject sections in the description, and just limit the author tag to a single name.

The author tag in your libsyn account is under "Destinations" - then click "Edit" for libsyn classic feed.

You can edit it there.

Make sure your title does not have spam in it. Same with your author tag.

Apple will reject for keyword stuffing (spamming) your title and author tag.

Rob W

Also you need to edit your artwork - it is too large file size - it needs to be <500 kb.

Make sure your artwork meets these specs:

1,400 x 1,400 pixels min to 3,000 x 3,000 pixels max - SQUARE

.jpg or .png

RGB

AND

<500 kb file size

And again - clean up your author tag to remove the keywords.

Rob W

In the feed it's the 'itunes:author' tag. You can't make any adjustments in iTunes, it only reads the feed.

I wouldn't have thought it was a problem. You could think about a colon instead.

Nothing else I can think of - give it a try and good luck.