Comments on: Have You Checked Your iTunes Listing Lately? You Should!

By: Jason Van Orden

Jason Van Orden — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:42:05 +0000

@Marcelo,

It is worth disabling the plugin to see if that remedies the problem.

@Lisa,

Trying running your feed through http://www.feedvalidator.org to see if you have any errors or warnings that could be causing the problem.

By: Lisa Hartjes

Lisa Hartjes — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:31:53 +0000

I’m doing the admin work for my mother’s blog, http://www.teachersatrisk.com and she’s been having problems with her podcast not updating on iTunes. However, she’s not using Feedburner or the plug-in you mention in your fix.

By: Marcelo Lewin

Marcelo Lewin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:35:10 +0000

My feed has not been updated by the iTunes store since 6 days now. Not sure what is going on. I point my feeds to feedburner directly (http://feeds.thedigitalmediadude.com/DailyTip). I ran the feed through Feed Validator and it says it’s ok, however, it brought up a warning about the Springbox DTD, could that be causing it? I Have a springbox widget turned on at the feed in feedburner.

Thanks!
- Marcelo
The Digital Media Dude

By: Judy

Judy — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:35:14 +0000

Thanks, Jason and THAT… I’m glad to know that others have noticed the same thing. I did validate the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/walkingwithwordsworth) and feedvalidator reported “This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing these problems.:
line 2 [This is a link to part of http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Fwalkingwithwordsworth , column 0: description should not contain onblur attribute (5 occurrences)”

I use blogger and feedburner. Line 2 etc is generated by blogger for postings that contain images. However, the cover art is not part of blogger, but rather information supplied as part of Smartcast in Feedburner, as far as I understand. The podcast seems to work fine as such, except that the cover art doesn’t update in the iTunes store after changing the image & filename in Smartcast. Hope that sheds some light on the problem.

By: Jason Van Orden

Jason Van Orden — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:59:45 +0000

@Kira,

Another reason that your listing might not update is if your feed does not validate. Have you checked that? You can use http://www.feedvalidator.org to check it.

@Judy & THAT,

The one thing that iTunes has not updated for Internet Business Mastery is the album art. I figured they must check and change it less often, but you say it has been several weeks for you. That is disconcerting. I’ll have to look into that some more.

By: THAT Painter Lady

THAT Painter Lady — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:22:24 +0000

My podcast is updating fine at iTunes…. but I am also having trouble with iTunes updating by cover art.

I changed the name of the art and resubmitted to feedburner. It looks fine at feedburner but it has been over 2 weeks and still no change at iTunes.

Support at iTunes said I should change my RSS feed to reflect the new cover art. Duh. I have already done that. I do use Wordpress, FeedSmith and Podpress.

Any suggestions?

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:59:34 +0000

I’ve only just set up my podcast, but I have noticed that I can’t get iTunes to fully update my feedburner feed. It will update everything but the cover art. I changed the podcast image (including changing the file name), checked from feedburner that the new image was the one designated in Smartcast, and pinged iTunes. It’s been several weeks, and yet the podcast image in the iTunes store is still the old one. Not sure if this problem with iTunes updates is related or not. I don’t use Wordpress, but Blogger.

By: Kira Slye

Kira Slye — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:45:55 +0000

Our feed comes from Libsyn where our podcasts are hosted. I route everything through feedburner and although our site is powered by wordpress, I opted not to use the plugin. However once in a while, our feed does not update. We haven’t figured out why.