How to Ping your Podcast?

Hello, Techies:
I just want to ask if do you know how to ping a podcast? Say, I have a new podcast episode published and I want to notify or ping Podcast directories that I have just updated or published a new episode..
Do you have any idea how?
I appreciate your reply
Thank you

The facility to ping the iTunes Store to get your podcast updated was withdrawn some time back: I'm not convinced that it ever worked anyway. I'm afraid it's just a question of waiting until the Store gets round to checking your feed for updates: this usually takes 1-2 days.

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For my podcast the link to ping itunes is
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast?id=260317789
Now replace the id number with your podcast id and you should be fine.
Just note that sometimes I ping iTunes and do not get immediate response, I guess it takes them time even though I pinged them. The best way to see if everything is fine is to unsubscribe to your feed and them immediately resubscribe.

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Hi,
While their are many ways to measure podcast preformance (e.g. Feedburner account and reviewing server logs), the only way to know accurately how many episodes being downloaded is to measure the daily bandwidth consumption of your MP3 or MP4 folder.
Look for the section titled "Average data transferred per day" within the your ISP server logs control panel, and divide that number by the average size of your episodes to determine your download count.
If you don't want to estimate your episode lengths, do like I do and standardize your podcasts to 1.5, 5.00, 10.00, 15.00, and 20.00 minutes long.
The above is an overview; for the details just ask.
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I never said my technique would state how many listeners one has. This technique is for knowing how many episodes are being downloaded.
Using Analog WWW logfile analysis, I set up the "File Size Report" section to subdivide download requests into size categories that correlate to my episode sizes (e.g. 10MBs). From there it's simply a matter of looking at the server requests for each category to the know how many downloads I had during any twenty-four hour period.
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Plug your ipod into your pc, load up itunes, make sure update to "manual" is set in preferences in itunes. Select your music on your iPod (via iTunes) and just delete it...(press del). I save my iTunes library using PodUtil (http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/software/podutil.php) although there are many other 3rd party apps that do this.

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Anyway, whether that is your podcast or not, it looks like Podomatic is a somewhat cumbersome interface. The only helpful thing I could find on their forums was this: +go to the MY PODCAST TAB, staying on the tab... slide over and click PREFERENCES then EDIT+. I'm not sure if it will let you edit your title field or not. You will have to see -- and if you still can't figure it out, you could ask on the Podomatic forums.
That said (and if that podcast that I found is indeed yours), it looks like you are just starting out with podcasting . . . and that Podomatic is not a very good service. It has a severe lack of customization options, lots of server downtime, and spotty (and snotty) tech support. If you are still getting started on your podcast, I would highly recommend that you investigate some other services, figure out what XML and RSS are, and really try to understand the technical side of podcasting before you go much further.
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For the most part the stats reporting for your podcast are greatly determined by where you host your media files.
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I seriosly need to learn how to ping iTunes

Listen, I know how to ping new info from my site to iTunes using this url:
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast?id=FEEDID
(exept in the id=FEEDID part I put the feed id of my podcast, whith out that the feed above is useless)
But I really want to know how to ping iTunes with other stuff such as:
adding the overall picture of my podcast to my feed (I have no idea how to do this), or maybe if I change sites how do I redo that and then ping it to iTunes?
I'm not a noob (I'm just an idiot using iWeb) but it would be awsome if you could answer my question as if I were a noob in the noobiesh way you could think of.
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Thanks for the URL. I validated your feed at http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Frss.mac.com%2Febrisker%2 FiWeb%2FSite%25202%2FPodcast%2Frss.xml , and it looks like everything is formed correctly, so that's a good sign. "Validation" means the commands you have in your file are correctly entered, so you are probably ok. A command can be entered correctly, but you can still have problems with the URLS; or misspellings in text, etc...
When I copied and pasted the URL you have in your itunes:image command I get an error, because the URL doesn't work. Try removing the front part of the image address, and you end up with http://www.mac.com/st/1/sharedassets/1.1/Common/Templates/Freestyle/About%20Me/n avfill-v2.jpg , which pulls up an image. You would be much safer using an image that is (1) hosted within your actual web site and is not a generic image that is a part of .Mac; and (2) try to use an image that is no larger than 300 pixels tall by 300 pixels wide.
Plain text is a very generic file. It looks like Appleworks handled your file correctly. Most programs that allow you to actually format text (Word, TextEdit, Appleworks, Wordperfect, OpenOffice) by default save files in a proprietary binary format. So the file when you look at it looks like text, but to the computer it is a unique file format. "Plain Text" (aka ascii, xml, text-only) can generally be read by any program. Plain text is what RSS files (podcast files) need to be.
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Just to check that you are logged into the iTunes Store and are submitting this at
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1st: I can't rearrange or group them so can listen consecutively to different topics.
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As a result, I have to tell Itunes that I DO want to continue downloading new files - for every podcast to which I subscribe, on a recurring basis.
Seems to me that transferring the file shows signs of interest - same as playing.
Is there a way to set Itunes to treat a transfer to the ipod the same as playing it?

You're right, there is no way to turn off this asinine, infuriating feature. It's this kind of thing that drove me away from Windows and made me so happy when I got a Mac. I felt like I didn't have to fight the Windows Big Brother anticipating my needs and only allowing me to do things in a way that Windows wanted me to.
Anyways, there is a partial solution, although its pretty sad compared to how easy it would be if Apple included a little checkbox in the options menu that said "Do you want iTunes to stop downloading your podcasts if you listen to them in any other way than on iTunes, even if you listen to them on your (Apple) iPod?". Go to http://www.dougscripts.com and check out the NeedleDrop script. It will let you automatically play 1 second or so of each podcast in your directory. You can then tell iTunes to update your podcasts and it will retrieve all of them, as it should anyways. One downside is that you'll have to run the NeedleDrop script every so often to update the playcount of your podcasts. Another downside, if you're a Windows user, is that the AppleScript will only work on Mac.
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