ITunes Store not updating my podcast feed

Feedburner is updating my feed but it is not registering in iTunes or Stitcher. Any ideas why?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/unbelievablepodcast

Your Store page is at
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-unbelievable-podcast/id497894096?mt=2
Please always include this when you have a question, to save me having to search for it.
Your latest episode was posted three days ago; it shows when subscribing so the feed appears to be OK. Usaually the Store updates in 1-2 days but it can sometimes be longer; it's probably juset a question of waiting for it to catch up.

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Hello community,
I'm the admin for the Open Society Foundations podcast feed, and iTunes has not updated the podcast description or image and I can't figure out why not. Any advice or assistance appreciated. This is the feed with the current description: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OpenSocietyInstitutePodcast. iTunes is updating all episodes, it's just not updating the description, which is in the xml file as:
<itunes:summary>The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve this mission, the Foundations seek to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, the Open Society Foundations implement a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, we build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. The Foundations place a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.</itunes:summary>
<description>The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve this mission, the Foundations seek to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, the Open Society Foundations implement a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, we build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. The Foundations place a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.</description>
I've read through other threads here and I believe I've confirmed that iTunes is pointing to the correct feed, and that I'm using the right tags. But, clearly I'm doing something wrong -- just can't figure out what.
Many thanks!

Although on subscribing iTunes is showing the contents of the 'description' tag (I thought it wasn't before. but I could be wrong) the 'itunes:subtitle' and 'itunes:summary' tags are still empty. If you've made the changes, have you uploaded the changed feed?
When you add a new episode to your feed and upload it, it appears immediately for subscribers because their iTunes application reads the feed directly and the Store is not involved.
However because of the huge number of podcasts in the Store (thousands) the Store caches the feed and checks it for updates periodically. For this reason it usually takes 1-2 days for new episodes to appear in the Store: sometimes it can be less, and occasionally the whole process seems to get stuck and it can take several days.
You mention 'new episodes' but there is only one episode in the feed.

ITunes Store not updating after ping by number

I've read a few posts about the iTunes store not loading additional podcasts. I pinged it after an update last night and ahven't seen an update yet. So I have pinged it again and each time I get the successful ping message.
Is there a delay time that I should wait when doing the ping for an immediate update?
I should show about 10 podcasts but show only three in the store. I can download all 10 if I subscribe to my feed though.
Your help is appriciated.
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Doug
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=206273999
http://www.aboutfbc.org/Video%20audio%20other/Podcast/PodcastFeed.xml

Ping is a network program to verify IP address availability. Has nothing to do with iTunes.
Don't under stand the problem. If subscribing to the feed gets you all the available episodes then what is your issue.

Itunes is not updating my podcast. its been 3 weeks now

for some reason itunes is not updating my podcast.
I have made changes to the feed and those changes do not show up when i view in itunes.
my feed is located at http://freemillionairebook.com/mikelitman_podcast.xml
as you can see there is a description for the show on the feed but when i view it in itunes it do not show any description for the episode.
its been 3 weeks now. I have verified the feed and it do not show any errors.
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I also tried to add new episodes to the feed and they also do not show up on itunes.
Can you tell my why this is happening.
Thanks,
Ali

Although on subscribing iTunes is showing the contents of the 'description' tag (I thought it wasn't before. but I could be wrong) the 'itunes:subtitle' and 'itunes:summary' tags are still empty. If you've made the changes, have you uploaded the changed feed?
When you add a new episode to your feed and upload it, it appears immediately for subscribers because their iTunes application reads the feed directly and the Store is not involved.
However because of the huge number of podcasts in the Store (thousands) the Store caches the feed and checks it for updates periodically. For this reason it usually takes 1-2 days for new episodes to appear in the Store: sometimes it can be less, and occasionally the whole process seems to get stuck and it can take several days.
You mention 'new episodes' but there is only one episode in the feed.

Itunes not updating new Podcast feeds

We have 50 different weekly shows that have been updating fine until this last Monday. Nothing has changed on this end. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

Well I'm really glad I have found this, ill tell you why.
I own crankygamersuk.net, now due to my very limited resources I have always gone with a free hosting service, which severely limits my space, meaning I can only get 2 of my podcast on there at a time, consequentially I have to delete the oldest whenever I put the latest one on.
Now I tell you this so you can understand my problem.
So this has been the case for nearly 3 years of my podcast, and not once have we had any problems, until now.
For some unknown reason, people who are subscribed to my cast on there mobile device are only getting to see the last 2 episodes showing up, even though I have put the latest one up, and deletes the old one.
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Why is iTunes store not updating with new episodes

I've followed all the rules and have successfully updated with 18 episodes. Now, the past two episodes have been posted and while they show up if one is already subscribed to the RSS feed the newest episodes are not appearing on the podcast page in the iTunes store. Anyone else experience this frustrating problem? Suggested solutions other that removing the feed and resubmitting? Thanks, in advance, for your help!

I am having the same issue. I know what the issues are in the feed validator, but I put them there for use in the xml side of our site. I don't see why there would be an issue.
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ITunes stops updating podcasts / iTunes has stopped updating this podcast because you have not listened to any episodes recently. Would you like to resume updating this podcast?

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My iTunes is set to automatically update podcasts and keep the last five episodes of each podcast.
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OK, that's how it is then.
The iTunes podcasts settings should be reworded in that case because it suggest something different from what it does. And, of course, it would be ideal for Apple to make this more flexible and allow users to set up their podcast downloads in their way and not be so motherly (c'mon, Apple, your users are not as dumb as you think, and they have uncapped Internet connections these days anyway)...
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ITunes has stopped updating this podcast because you have not listened . .

I found an archived article from two years ago: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8453115 and have found subsequent articles talking about outboard solutions that I have tried and do not work. The problem continues to this day. Why doesn't Apple just fix this themselves?
Exact text of the message, as if it is a mystery: iTunes has stopped updating this podcast because you have not listened to any episodes recently. Would you like to resume updating this podcast?
Yes. Yes. Permanently, yes. Stop asking the question.

creativestuff wrote:
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Yes. Yes. Permanently, yes. Stop asking the question.
Although you may not like the way it's set up, Apple appears to have done this deliberately and therefore does not consider it broken. I suspect that they do it that way to conserve bandwidth.
Submit your feedback to Apple requesting something different here:
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I have been attempting to submit my podcast to the Apple iTunes directory. iTunes will not accept my podcast RSS feed.

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line 2, column 0: Use of unknown namespace: http://www.apple.com/iweb [help]
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line 23, column 45: Implausible date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:05:12 -0700 [help]      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:05:12 -0700</pubDate>
                                             ^
line 36, column 43: Problematical RFC 822 date-time value: Sat, 1 Jan 11 14:52:58 -0800 (3 occurrences) [help]      <pubDate>Sat, 1 Jan 11 14:52:58 -0800</pubDate>
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line 71, column 2: Missing atom:link with rel="self" [help] </channel>
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line 71, column 2: Missing recommended iTunes channel element: itunes:category [help] </channel>
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