Custom Feeds with Podcast Composer

Hello,
I try to setup custom feeds in Podcast Producer. When I run the following command:
podcast --addfeed --feed_name "Test Screen" --description "Episodes with Test Screen in Title" --query "episodes.title = 'Test Screen'"
I get the following error message:
Invalid query ('(episodes.title = 'Test Screen')')
The problem is episodes.title, because when I choose episode.title (without "s" at the end) it works. However the created feed shows no entries. What's wired:
The table name in library_db.sqlite3 (in the share filesystem) is episodes not episode....
What's going wrong here?
Regards
Bruno

You CAN modify the workflows. The easiest way is to make a head start with Podcast Composer. Do everything you can in Podcast Composer and save the workflow locally. Now open the workflow package and edit template.plist. After you have edited the workflow you can no longer open it in Podcast Composer, so use the command line tool 'pcast' to upload the workflow:
pcast --installworkflow --path <path to workflow bundle>
pcast does a validation on the workflow for you and if you did something wrong it gives good hints on where to look in template.plist for the mistakes.
Especially when you are using encrypted passwords and stuff it is better to do that first in Podcast Composer and edit it after that by hand. Make sure you make, edit and upload the workflow on the same machine, logged in always as the same user. Passwords are stored in the local keychain and pcast needs to access these when uploading. Good luck!

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Bray,
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You need to go back and check the objects that you want to be included in the score. The 67% score reported by the quiz on the quiz results slide probably means that Captivate thinks you only have three objects reporting to the quiz and only two of those (two thirds or 67% in round figures) were successful.
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I'm a total newbie when it comes to podcasting, although I've had my website for almost a year and feel comfortable with iWeb.
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in first pic you can see streaming podcast and chapters (little white dots on bar),second picture is first song with cover of single playing, and if you look close right from the clock zzz simbol is chapter logo, if you press it you will be see pic no.3 so this def working but working when you mad your podcast on mac with garage band ! that's why i write about format ids, tags etc
http://i.imgur.com/vy33H9y.png
http://i.imgur.com/g4P5iM1.png
http://i.imgur.com/zDOIwrC.png
i test your podcast episode 36 then episode 33 and 31 ! bad news my friend no chapters and no pictures only one main pic. but when i test your podcast in downcast app in my iphone wooo i see text i see your pic i see chapters i see everything. so that mean it's working everywhere like mine except iphone and ipad app and now we come to theory of garage band things tags in m4a files. you write that you have done all this in podcast maker not garage band. This is now real mistery to me !
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I'm having some pretty baffling issues as of late. I decided to hook my podcast into feedburner, and that process has proven to be quite easy. Even redirecting iTunes to that URL was fine. But all of a sudden, iTunes has stopped working and cannot connect to feeds or anything of the sort.
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The other option is somewhat uncertain. iTunes Support is notoriously unhelpful, often sending back form answers which often don't deal with the actual problem, or referring the questioner to theDiscussions Forum: however it has been known for someone to persuade Support to shift their podcast to a new URL, so it's worth trying. It's probably just a matter of luck you you get. To contact iTunes Support, go to http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ - click on 'Other iTunes Store Features' in the list and then on 'Podcasts'.

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http://rfwilmut.net/pc

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Hi everybody!
First of all, please excuse my poor English: I'm French. I'll try to do my best to write as well as I can.
I have some difficulties with podcasts and iTunes 6.0.1.3.
When I "sign up" (FR: "s'abonner") to some podcasts, they are not updated in my iPod nano indeed (and some others are), although iTunes says: "Your iPod is updated" (FR: "Votre iPod est à jour").
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2) reboot the system
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6) download and launch the iTunes + QuickTime installer from this web address
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8) after all the installations, remember to enable both firewall and anti-virus previously disabled!
as i said, probably the 5th passage is not necessary, but i did it and it worked!
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bye, bye,
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