Help submitting podcast: submission properties incorrect

Using iWeb to submit my podcast, but in music store, some feed properties are wrong, like author, the picture (default image), and "clenliness", and I can't figure out how to fix them in iWeb
Thanks

Episode 4 does not play in iTunes: episode 3 does. Downloading them in a browser directly from the feed shows that episode 3 is an MP3 file and plays OK. Episode 4 plays OK, but although the extension is .mp3 examining it in the QuickTime Inspector shows that it is actually AAC (M4a) - it's very likely that this is what is throwing iTunes which is trying to treat it as an MP3 file. (It wouldn't play in Amadeus Pro until I changed the extension.) You need to change the extension to .m4a or re-encode the file as .mp3.
You should check the other two files. Playing a file in the QuickTime Player and showing the Movie Inspector will show you the details.
You may have a further problem: testing one of your files suggests that your server does not accept 'byte range requests'.
This is the method used by iPhones to play podcast files, and consists of requesting part of the file at a time rather than the whole thing asa a computer does. It is mandatory when having your podcast assessed. If the submissions process detects that the server does not handle this it will reject the submission, though it should give you an error message explaining that this is the reason.

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Help submitting podcast, please.

I am having trouble figuring out the proper URL to use in submitting my podcast to the Music Store. Also, do you submit each time you have a new episode, or only once in the beginning?
Any help is appreciated. Here is the url for the site. Thanks.
http://web.mac.com/volination/iWeb/iPawd/iPawdCast/iPawdCast.html
PB G4 1.67 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

You have a couple minor errors in the feed file.
You submit the feed URL once to Apple through the iTunes Podcast area. Only one submission is needed/accepted. After that, iTunes monitors the file for changes (new episodes) and updates the iTunes entry.

Issue with submitting podcast.

I recently submitted my podcast to the itunes store. As far as I know, everything was fine with the RSS feed. I was sent a rejection notice, so I went to look back, and realized that something within the description had come through screwy in the feed, and caused itunes to bring it up as "unclean language". I went back to fix it, and did so, figuring I could just try resubmitting it.
Well, itunes is just telling me that the feed had already been submitted. I'm using podomatic to host the podcast right now, and they provided me with the RSS feed to use. Is there any way I can get this fixed so I can resubmit again? I'm not the best with the feed stuff, so I would really appreciate being able to avoid having to make a brand new rss link. Thanks for the help!

I can't seem to get my client's podcast in the itunes store. I submitted it once and it was rejected for no explicit content tag- I fixed that and resubmitted it- nothing. Then I changed the title and resubmitted it. Nothing. I have contacted tech support and they say they can't help with podcast submission. I know the rss is right (http://air-raid.net/rss.php) and I feel like I am just being ignored.
Either of you get past this hurdle? It's been going on 3 months we've been waiting for this to take. Why the **** can't they send you an email to let you know how the submission is progressing?
Please, Itunes- help me get this GOING!

Podcast submission: "we are currently experiencing technical difficulties"

Hi all,
I have a few podcasts that need submitting but i keep getting "we are currently experiencing technical difficulties"
My feeds are:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElmwoodChurchSeriesAllGodsCreatures
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElmwoodChurchSeriesFreedom
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElmwoodChurchSeriesGuestSpeakers
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElmwoodChurchSeriesLivingBeyondMyself
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElmwoodChurchSeriesMark
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElmwoodChurchSeriesSerious
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElmwoodChurchSeriesAllServices
All feeds validate at feedvalidator.org.
I have then tested them through iTunes. Sometimes i do get exclamation marks next to items with 'the network connection was reset' by them, but when i choose 'get' they download fine. (I assume that's just a problem with my broadband connection?)
Trying to submit through iTunes I have been getting "we are currently experiencing technical diificulties" for over a week.
I have tried the following:
iTunes 10.6.1.7 on Windows 7
iTunes 10.6.1 (7) on Mac OSX 10.7.3
iTunes 10.5.3 (3) on Mac OSX 10.6.8
Also using both my iTunes account & my husband's account.
So either: iTunes podcast submission is broken currently (and they don't know, but how that can have gone on that long & them not know)
or: there is something wrong with my feeds (but these validate, so what is wrong?)
or: maybe there is something wrong with the server that is hosting the podcast files?
Any ideas as to how to move forward would be greatfully accepted - i have looked round the forums & there are only old threads saying 'try another version of iTunes)
C

Hi everyone,
I recently submitted a podcast and it was rejected, for I believe copyright reasons. I do however, have written permission from the original artists allowing me to use their tracks in the podcast. Any ideas how to preceed with this ?
Also as of today the podcast submissions keep saying that there are technical difficulties ?
Here is my podcast feed too: http://turnofthetables.podomatic.com/rss2.xml
Mark

Can I get help with podcasts? When I try to open the podcasts, itunes crashes, says "itunes has detected a problem and must close", or the spanish equivalent since my xp is in spanish. everything else works fine, it even downloads podcasts and syncs.

Can I get help with podcasts? When I try to open the podcasts tab, itunes crashes, says "itunes has detected a problem and must close", or the spanish equivalent since my xp is in spanish. everything else works fine, it even downloads podcasts and syncs.

The only other thing I can suggest is to use the Repair option for iTunes.
Download the iTunes programme (do not uninstall your current iTunes) and then "install" the new copy. At some stage you should see an option to "install" or "Repair". Take the Repair option.
Once you've done that, if you still have a problem, I don't know what else to suggest, except to search through the discussions to see if anyone else has had the problem and managed to fix it.

Need help submitting an HTML Post command

Hi Everyone,
I need a help submitting a POST command to an Apache Server. I unfortunately have almost no expierience with HTML. Can anyone give me a simple example to start with and what I might need to do?
Thank you very much in advance,
Oz
Message Edited by OzRuiz on 12-18-2007 09:18 AM
Message Edited by OzRuiz on 12-18-2007 09:21 AM

This is actually very simple with native LabVIEW functions.
Use an TCP Open Connection to open a port to the server (I used
ws.cdyne.com, with port 80).
Send your request with TCP Write (I send the text listed below. This text is
copied directly from the ws.cdyne.com web page, where you can find examples
for POST, GET and others).
Read back the data with TCP Read.
Close the connection with TCP Close Connection.
Note that the data you send and receive doesn't need to be HTML. It could be
any text, but most likelly XML or HTML. In this case it's a soap message,
basically an XML format designed for communicating with servers. Some
servers send the data back in several parts, but I have not found any
describtion about this format.
Regards,
Wiebe.
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POST /ip2geo/ip2geo.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: ws.cdyne.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 391
SOAPAction: "http://ws.cdyne.com/ResolveIP"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<ResolveIP xmlns="http://ws.cdyne.com/">
<IPaddress>62.250.4.144</IPaddress>
<LicenseKey>0</LicenseKey>
</ResolveIP>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
++++++++++++++++++++++

How can I get into my submitted podcast to add a cover graphic?

How can I get into my submitted podcast to add a cover graphic and make other modications?

You don't edit your podcast in iTunes, if that's what you are asking: it works entirely from the feed. You have to make any changes in the feed, and re-upload it. Whatever method you used to create the podcast - a program or an online service - is where you need to make any changes.
Is this your podcast -
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/audio-sermons-at-glendale/id733032556
if so your feed is at
http://glendalecitychurch.org/index.php/component/podcastmanager/?format=raw&fee dname=1?n=100

Podcasting Submission keeps timing out

This is the first time i will submit a URL for the podcasting submission. It keeps timing out while it is downloading. Any suggestions?

What's the podcast URL?

Error Submitting Podcast Feed (Pls Help!)

I keep getting an error (11111) when I try to submit my podcast RSS feed.
I'm on Windows Vista. Downloaded and installed the latest version of iTunes today (Feb 1st 2013).
I enter my feed URL, am asked for my password etc (which I enter and works) and then I get this error:
I don't use Safari (I'm using Chrome and Firefox), but the issue seems to be within iTunes itself.
Any suggestions?
I also restarted my computer which did not help.

Just wanted to update this so others can benefit from my experience.
As Roger suggested I did email Apple and got a response. That didn't solve the problem as they asked for more information and then I didn't hear back from them (at least not yet).
2 things I learned:
1) Make sure your podcast has at least 1 live episode in it before submitting. (not sure if this is critical or not, but I changed this).
2) I created a new Apple ID and than submitted again. Then it worked right away.
Thanks Roger again for the suggestions and hope that helps others. Now just waiting for Apple to approve the podcast so it's in their store.

Difficulty submitting podcast feed to iTunes

Hello everyone,
My friend and I host a podcast at http://DWSPodcast.com
Our RSS feed is http://DWSPodcast.libsyn.com/rss
I go through the motions of submitting our feed to the iTunes Store:
sign in, store, podcasts, submit a podcast, insert feed, confirm info, see success page saying correspondence will be sent to my email.
Here is where my trouble occurs.
I never receive a confirmation email even though iTunes states that it knows where to send it. I have waited days-weeks to see if one would show up.
Here is another oddity. I can complete this submission process as many times as I like without receiving any submission error or 'already received' error.
I have checked my RSS feed with the feed validator and it is a legit feed. Libsyn support has also double checked my feed as well.
My podcast can be manually subscribed through iTunes and everything works fine.
I have tried submitting my feed from different computers on different networks to make sure it wasn't a local hang up.
We are already on stitcher radio and the Microsoft podcast network and really can't understand why our feed won't submit to iTunes.
It seems to be broken somewhere between the submission process and the apple servers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
-Andrew

There is no obvious reason why there should be a problem. It can take several weeks before a podcast is accepted, so possibly you're just stuck in the queue, though in that case I would have expected further attempts to submit to produce an error message.
You could try emailing Support at podcasts 'at' apple.com, but I have to tell you that they are not noted for being helpful and you will very likely simply get a form answer telling you how to submit a podcast (which you already know). You might get better results if you can persuade Libsyn to chase it up - Apple are more likely to listen to them.

HT3311 Problem submitting podcast (hosted on GoDaddy) to i Tunes Store - host parameter null

Why do I get following reply from iTunes Store when I attempt to publish my podcast:
"We had difficulty reading this feed. Host parameter is null." ?
This is my podcast website:
http://www.einarpetterson.org/Ars_et_Medicina/Podcast/Podcast.html
I have validated the following feed with Feed Validator. It is ok. (there are some minor suggestions for changes which should not be criical)
http://www.einarpetterson.org/Ars_et_Medicina/Podcast/rss.xml
When I write this feed URL in the box for suscribing to podcasts in ITunes (Advanced/Suscribe to podcast menues), iTunes finds my podcasts and downloads them successfully (and fast). All the podcasts downloaded that way work fine.
So, if the rss reed is validated, and works in iTunes, why am I not able to publish my podcasts in iTunes Store?
My hosting service is GoDaddy.com.   I see from other articles on this support forum (Apple) and on GoDaddy´s support forum, that other people have had the same problem.   Sometimes their problem apparently just disappeared (and iTunes Store finally just stopped writing "We had difficulty reading this feed. Host parameter is null" everytime they tried to submit their podcasts to iTunes. I have now tried submitting this and other podcasts (hosted on GoDaddy) many, many times for several days, but always get the same irritating negative message.
Does anyone out there understand what the problem could be?   As far as I can see from reading other descriptions of this same problem, no one has yet provided an adequate explanation of what is causing this "glitch" (as some call it).
I want to publish several podcast series on iTunes Store which are now hosted on GoDaddy.com.   Many other MobileMe users like me, will in the next 30 days have to move their websites from MobileMe to other hosting services.   GoDaddy.com is a large hosting service.   This problem might appear often during the next month. I therefore believe that Apple and GoDaddy should attempt to find out why this problem occurs, and do something about it.   It seems from other descriptions of this problem, that it often occurs with people using GoDaddy hosting service. Have not read or analyzed all descriptions of this problem on the net, but there are enough descriptions to support a hypothesis that there is some communication difficulty between iTunes Store and GoDaddy hosting service. (? - at least some others have made this hypothesis, like I do)

TEST OF SUBMISSION OF 16 RSS FEEDS TO ITUNES STORE "SUBMIT PODCAST" PAGE
I have now tested all my podcast rss feeds which are now stored on GoDaddycom hosting service in three ways:
1) Feed validator
2) iTunes (Menu: Advanced/suscribe to podcast)
3) iTunes Store "Submit Podcast Page"
Results:
All 16 rss feeds are valid according to Feed Validator. There are some small insignifcant suggestions for improvements which are not critical.
All 16 rss feeds function in iTunes (Advanced/suscribe to podcasts)
None of the 16 rss feeds can be successfully submitted to iTunes Store "submit podcast" page. The same error occurs in all cases:
"We had difficulty reading this feed. host parameter is null"
The following 5 of these 16 podcasts were submitted while the websites were hosted by MobileMe. No problems with submission. All accepted and now on iTunes. These podcast sites are now transferred to GoDaddy.com (with same domain as earlier - einarpetterson.org - and all function. I can change pages, make alterations etc.
Here are the 5 rss feeds.
http://www.einarpetterson.org/New_Perspectives_on_Baroque_Art_and_Culture/Podcas ts/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/Utopia/Podcast/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/Dystopia/Video_Podcast/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/Dystopia/Podcast/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/Ekskursjonsemner/Podcast/rss.xml
The following 11 podcasts now hosted on GoDaddy webhosting service can not be submitted successfully to iTunes Store despite the fact that their rss feeds are validated by Feed Validator and work on iTunes (and probably on most other rss readers)
http://www.einarpetterson.org/Orientering_utenlandskurs_VS2011/Podcast/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/ViK_VS2009/Verk_i_Kontekst_VS2009/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/ViK_VS2010/Podcast/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/KUN2_4009_tidlig_kristen_kunst_HS2009/Podcast/rss. xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/KUN2_4011_Middelalderen_i_Italia_HS2009/Podcast/rs s.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/KUN2_4092_New_York_VS2010/Podcast/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/PropFide_VS2009/Propaganda_Fide_VS2009/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/PropFide_VS2009/Propaganda_Fide_VS2009/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/Propaganda_Fide_VS2012/Podcast/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/Ars_et_Medicina/Video_Podcast/rss.xml
http://www.einarpetterson.org/Ars_et_Medicina/Podcast/rss.xml
THIS PROBABLY MEANS THAT IT IS EITHER VERY DIFFICULT, OR IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE WHO IS USING GODADDY.COM AS A WEBHOSTING SERVICE (WITHOUT USING THEIR VIRTUAL OR DEDICATED SERVER OPTIONS WHICH ARE VERY EXPENSIVE) TO PUBLISH ANY PODCASTS ON ITUNES STORE.
I may have made some error in my submission to ITunes Store, but do not think so. If anyone discovers that I have made a simple and stupid error, please tell me. If I have not made an error, one should probably not use GoDaddy.com as a webhosting service if one ever wants to publish podcasts to iTunes Store.
It would be interesting to hear if anyone in this forum who is using GoDaddy.com webhosting service has recently (or ever) managed to succesfully submit a rss feed to iTunes Store submit page. If so, I would like to hear about it.

Error message when submitting podcast

I have been trying to submit a new podcast to the directory in itunes.
I tested the feed by subscribing to my podcast using the advanced menu as suggested in the FAQ on submitting a video podcast. The test was successful and I downloaded the most recent podcast and played it in itunes. The list of previous podcasts was also available in itunes.
When I used the same url to submit it to the itunes directory an error message came back.
"We require that feeds include a title"
Is there anyone who can tell me what is wrong.
This is the url that tested out successfully.
http://www.solutionpod.libsyn.com/rss
Thankyou in advance for any advice.
Janet
Sony VGN-A190 Windows XP

The image is still 600 x 600 - http://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000122042307-vnef41-original.jpg - it looks as if SoundCloud is 'helpfully' reducing the size to what used to apply several years ago. I don't know what you can do about this.
There are several ways of looking at the coding for your feed. The simplest is to control-click on its URL
http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:118687921/sounds.rss
and choose 'Download' or 'Save linked file' or similar to download it. Then drag it onto the TextEdit icon to open it. Alternatively nominate a browser as your RSS reader - FireFox is good: Safari almost as good - in FireFox his command-u; in Safari you can access the source code from menus which differer with the version.

Connection Timed Out when Submitting Podcast

I am getting really frustrated. A few days ago I submitted a feed to add a podcast to the iTunes catalog. I had checked the feed already to make sure it validated. iTunes accepted it as a valid feed and said I would get an email shortly confirming the submission. SO yesterday, not having received the email, I contacted support (online - no phone support) - and they say that the feed did not validate. Told me to run it through feedvalidator. WHICH I DID ALREADY and did again- it validates. I am able to subscribe to it even in iTunes. So I attempted to resubmit - got a "connection to thr server timed out" message. I have attempted to create feeds using several online utilities, changing where I host the feed, etc, and no matter what, I get a connection timed out message. They won't talk to me on the phone. AND I AM GETTING SO TICKED OFF! Is this Apple's servers going down?

Please check the hosts file for the new IP,
Also cehck the Agnet service login for wheter the user has the privledges to do a FTP access to the server or also connect to the server
Reshma

Cover art error message when submitting podcast, but image is the propper size.

I'm using Soundcloud to host a podcast. I tried submitting my RSS feed to itunes today, and I keep getting the error stating that my cover art must be at least 1400 x 1400 ect. The image being used is a 1400 x 1400 .jpg, so I can't figure out what the problem is. Can someone help me through this?
Here is my RSS Feed: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:118687921/sounds.rss

The image is still 600 x 600 - http://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000122042307-vnef41-original.jpg - it looks as if SoundCloud is 'helpfully' reducing the size to what used to apply several years ago. I don't know what you can do about this.
There are several ways of looking at the coding for your feed. The simplest is to control-click on its URL
http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:118687921/sounds.rss
and choose 'Download' or 'Save linked file' or similar to download it. Then drag it onto the TextEdit icon to open it. Alternatively nominate a browser as your RSS reader - FireFox is good: Safari almost as good - in FireFox his command-u; in Safari you can access the source code from menus which differer with the version.

Podcast Submission: error message "We had difficulties downloading episodes from your feed."

When I try to submit a podcast into iTunes, the error message that comes up is "We had difficulties downloading episodes from your feed." I've validated the feed. It's not a duplicate submission. Not sure what to fix, as it doesn't list a specific error. Any help??

This is another case of WordPress strikes again. You have one episode, but its media file appears only in the description in the feed, and in a link on the web page. You have to have an 'enclosure' tag containing the media file URL or iTunes will see the episode as having no playable media and thus not show it.
WordPress is producing what is in effect a blog feed: it is possible to get WordPress to produce a podcast feed, and there is evidently something you need to do to enable that, but I'm afraid I can't advise on that.
Your media file is hosted on Dropbox and this is liable to cause you problems. As it's currently set up the link leads to a web page with a download link - this will not work. You have to provide a direct link to the file which will play in a browser, and you should avoid it being https instead of http. You would be better off hosting your media files on an ordinary web server.

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