My podcasts length isn't showing in iTunes store?

Hello.
Me and a friend have started a podcast and both of us are really technically incompetent. However, I have managed to get our podcast (Indiepodden) to appear in the iTunes Store. The problem is though, that the lenght of the podcast is not displayed until you download it, and if you stream it you are not able to fast forward or rewind. The episode description is also "wrong" as it displays the link from which the podcast is downloaded, I would like to switch that out, as it just looks ugly.
This is how we are doing it right now:
Upload episode to public dropbox folder.
Link the dropbox link via a Wordpress Blog with the same title as the podcast.
I have used Feedburner to create a feed from the Wordpress Blog.
That feed is what iTunes is reading.
Links:
https://itunes.apple.com/se/podcast/indiepodden/id738809964?mt=2
http://indiepodden.wordpress.com/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Indiepodden
Help would be lots and lots appreciated!

Thank you for your answer.
I do have the Smartcast function enabled in Feedburner, but I can't find the place to change the 'duration'. I did however take a look at what Feedburner calls the 'XML Source' and the word 'description' was not in there, so it seems to be missing entirely.
Do you know how I should go about to enable this? Would make the podcast a lot more professional looking.

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