ITunes 7 error (406) re: downloading episodes

I have two podcasts listed in iTunes that were working fine in 6.0.5, but with updating to 7 a person cannot download the episodes. There is an error message that says to check the URL and connection (406). These are find and work in version 6. Any help is welcomed.

We're not omniscient. Where is your podcast? Can you give us the iTunes URL? Or your podcast's name so we can search?
Have you validated the feed? http://www.feedvalidator.org
Do you have access to your web server's logs?
Sorry I can't be of more help, Mike

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I don't know why you are having this problem. The URL of your top episode's media file is
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ITunes Submit Podcast - difficulty downloading episodes from feed

Was instructed to start a need thread after reading several of the others. This is the error I am receiving when submitting my podcast feed, "We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed." I tried a couple of the solutions offered but I am still receiving the error. My podcast feed is generated by feedburner and you can use the itpc version of the URL and it subscribes instantly and has no problem downloading the latest episodes. But as far as making it available in the iTunes store I continue to receive the above error when I submit the feed.
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Your feed has a lot of episodes with .mp3 files, but it also has a large number of episodes without. In fact reading from the top of the feed it looks like around fifty, though I've not counted them. Furthermore your episode aren't in any logical order.
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In any case it's not a good idea to mix episodes with and without playable media in this way, though the main problem where the creation process is limiting the number of episodes doesn't seem to apply here. iTunes will not display any episode which don't have playable media.
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The infamous "We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed" error

Hi all,
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64 kbpb - Bit Rate
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mono or joint stereo
This gives good audio quality at the size of 0.5 mb per minute. It is used by most of the big shows in iTunes and it compatible with all players and aggregators.
Trying to trick the system to use a non-standard format is likely going to cause you issues - it is best to go with the settings above if you want the least amount of issues for you and your potenital listeners.
Rob W

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This is a bug in the iTunes submission system where it gives a false negative. Libsyn servers are 100% compliant with iTunes.
Please submit again - it usually will go through the second time. If not wait 10 minutes and submit again.
Apple is aware of this issue - but it has been around for a while.

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There seem to be a lot fo threads like this, but none of the problems are quite the same. I've got a self-hosted wordpress site, and a soundcloud account.
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DO NOT use the souncloud RSS feed - if you ever decide to leave them you will loose all your audience.
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What ever your do - do NOT use the soundcloud RSS feed.
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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.
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