Podcast feed not updating, Podcast feed not updating

Hi,
For a few months my podcast hasn't been updating on iTunes. I can't re-submit the feed as it says it already exists. What do I do?
Thanks,
Mike

It's not really possible to comment unless you would like to publish the URLs of both your feed and the Store page - this latter can be found by control-clicking on the podcast image (or where it should be) - and choosing 'Copy link'. Please include the http:// in both cases to make the links clickable.

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I'm new. How do I update my feed after posting a new podcast?

I'm sure this has been asked a bazillion times but i haven't found an answer.
I just joined iTunes and received a confirmation email that my podcast feed has been accepted. The email states,
After adding a new episode, update your feed in the fastest possible manner with the ping service by visiting this URL:
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast?id=(ID REMOVED)
But when I click the link it instead takes me to this link...
http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios/id36?mt=8&id=(IDREMOVED)
And I cannot find any option to update my feed. Please help and thanks!

Once your feed has been accepted you are given the URL to the iTunes Store, which is presumably what the second link you have posted is.
You don't have to interact with the Store any further. Just add a new episode to the podcast and re-upload the feed. Subscribers will see the new episode immediately, but it usually takes the Store a day or two, occasionally longer, to catch up.
Incidentally I don't know where you saw the instruction to ping the Store, but that facility was removed over a year ago. (Not that it ever did much good anyway). The Store will update when it gets round to your feed.

Podcast feed in iTunes Store hasn't updated since January!

Hi,
Our podcast feed which we have been running for over a year now stopped updating in iTunes Store and is still showing the latest podcast as Jan 2013 even though we put out 3 new episodes a week. If you are subscribed it works but people keep reporting to us about the iTS being months behind and it is bothering my employer.
Our server was running slow and I have since fixed the problem and it made no difference.
I reported a problem with the feed in iTunes and it made no difference.
I relocated the feed to another server using a different system and url which is much faster using 301 redirect and placed all files on a high speed cdn but this has made no difference either... Also updated images too.
I reported the problem again to iTunes and nothing changed.
Help I need to get this sorted as I don't know what else to do!!!!! We can't start a new one as we have too many subscribers.
iTS page: http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=564972472
Old feed URL (301 redirect): http://nexuschurch.com.au/podcast-feed/feed.php
New feed URL: http://www.nexuschurch.com.au/podcast.rss
Thanks,
Seth

Your Store page lists 68 episodes running from 12 Jan 1012 to 19 Jan 2013. Clicking on the 'Subscribe' button brings up the feed at
http://www.nexuschurch.com.au/podcasts.rss
This feed has 15 episodes running from February 3 to 11 March this year. The old feed URL you give successfully redirects to the feed now in use in a browser, and evidently also when subscribing in iTunes; but it looks as if it is not working in the Store page. The correct method for redirecting a feed involves placing a special tag in the original feed and is outlined here:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/podcast.html#move
According to Apple's own documentation a 301 redirect should work in the Store, but it looks as if for some reason it isn't.
All I can suggest is that you place a copy of the feed at the old URL, adding the redirect link as described in my page, and remove the 301. This should move the Store to the present feed - it will probably take a couple of days or so to catch up.
If for some reason you are unable to set up the feed at the old URL you can try emailing them at podcasts 'at' apple.com and asking them to move the Store - give them the Store page URL and both feed URLs.

ITunes not updating RSS feed.

I am hoping someone will be able to help me figure this out:
After a hiatus of several months, I have started releasing new podcast episodes. The last episode in the iTunes store directory was Nov. 14, 2012.
In the last week I have released 2 new episodes, but since the content was time sensitive I backdated them. I changed the Nov. 14 podcast to July 20 and then added a September 15 and a February 22, 2013 episode.
The changes show up through iTunes software, but not in the iTunes store. It still shows the last episode as being Nov. 14, 2012. It has been 4 going on 5 days without any changes.
Also, iTunes is not displaying my podcast logo, even though I have uploaded a 1400 X 1400 jpeg.
I have checked and the podcast feed validates without a problem.
I am at a loss as to what to look for or try next. If anyone has any ideas I would be very appreciative for any advice.
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/down-to-business-english-business/id36626569 7?l=en&mt=2
http://www.speakeasytokyo.net/downtobusinessenglish.xml
http://www.downtobusinessenglish.com
Thank you.

Hi Roger,
I contacted Apple and received this confusing reply (cut and paste below). It is confusing on 2 counts; 1) My feed validates just fine and 2) within minutes of receiving it, iTunes updated my feed to show 2 missing episodes.
Still, the artwork is not showing and I posted another (backdated) episode over a week ago and it still hasn't shown up in the store yet either.
I am wondering if I should resubmit my feed as the Apple support email suggests but do not want to loose my current subscribers.
Any thoughts?
This is the email I received from Apple:
Dear Malcolm,
Welcome to iTunes Store Customer Support. My name is Abdul and I will be happy to assist you.
I'm sorry to hear that you have been unable to get your podcast listed on the iTunes Store. Addressing your concern is important to me.
Malcolm, it appears that your podcast's RSS feed is not validating. To help find the problem, you may want to use a feed validator, such as this one:
http://www.feedvalidator.org
You can get help with many specific issues, learn how to test a feed, and view a sample feed in the iTunes Making a Podcast page:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html
If you can successfully subscribe to your podcast and listen to each of the episodes, try resubmitting the feed to the iTunes Store. If you receive a message that the feed has already been submitted, the iTunes Store is detecting that the podcast is a duplicate. Please follow these steps to resubmit the podcast:
1) Change the title and link fields of your RSS feed to something other than what they are now.
2) Resubmit the podcast feed via iTunes.
3) Once you have successfully submitted the podcast, you can change the title and link fields back to what they were.
If you're still having trouble, consider consulting the Apple Discussions forums, which have a wealth of information about specific issues. Click Producing Podcasts in the Pro Digital Production area of this page: http://discussions.apple.com
I hope the above information will help you.
If you have any further questions, feel free to contact us and we will be happy to assist you.
Have a nice day!
Sincerely,
Abdul
iTunes Store Customer Support

Bug:iTunes 7 stops updating podcasts that I do not want it to stop updating

Some podcasts that I subscribe to are updated as often as every hour (for example, CNN's hourly update). I do not listen to the podcasts every hour, but always want the latest podcast there, or the podcast becomes useless. iTunes keeps deciding not to update those podcasts, and then I have to manually tell it to keep updating. There is no way to turn this off. Since I listen to a lot of podcasts of news shows and other content that is only useful to listen to soon after it was broadcast, this really degrades the usefulness of listening to podcasts in iTunes.
Apple needs to provide a way to disable this behavior, or even better, to allow users to set a per-podcast update frequency and maximum stored podcast count. (I want all available unheard podcasts for my comedy podcasts, for example, but I only want the latest one or two podcasts for news podcasts because older ones are no longer useful.)
Apple describes this behavior on this web page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301872
"You've subscribed to a podcast but have more than five unplayed episodes. iTunes will stop automatically downloading newer episodes. You may get the following message:
iTunes has stopped updating this podcast because you have not listened to any episodes recently. Would you like to resume updating this podcast?
You can click Yes to continue downloading additional episodes. Or you can just listen to any part of any episode and a new episode will download at the next update."
Thanks!

And you're sure no one in your household is downloading them?

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?

Hi,
My iTunes is set to automatically update podcasts and keep the last five episodes of each podcast.
However, iTunes appears to stop updating podcasts after several (five?) unwatched episodes and gives me an exclamation mark in the podcast overview. Clicking on that, I get the message: "iTunes has stopped updating this podcast because you have not listened to any episodes recently. Would you like to resume updating this podcast?"
This is not what I intend... and not what I told iTunes to do... (at least this my reading of the below settings)
This stopping is rather less then ideal: (1) if I am going away for two weeks, which I often do, I would still like to have the last five days of news, not the last five days of news back from the date I left, (2) I need to click update for approx. 20 podcast on regular basis, (3) my iPhone is synced to iTunes as soon as I come home, if iTunes does not have the podcasts downloaded, they are not copied over to the iPhone, and the iPhone will attempt to download the episodes via 3G next time I play the podcast on the go, (4) I am mainly using iTunes functions, such as smart playlists and podcasts, through another app (Plex, a fullscreen media player) and it is a pain to have to go to iTunes to manually do things. That is why this bothering me...
How can I get iTunes to behave as intended? (From reading through old posts I know that there is a Doug script adressing this problem, which I have just set up, but I would prefer to use internal settings if possible... maybe I am just missing a setting)
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Thank you for the response, Roger!
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)...
Btw., for anyone interested, this is external script I am using now:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=updateexpiredpodcasts
Including the "cron job" setup here:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/2011/12/updated-update-expired-podcasts-v2-2-and-l aunchd-project/
Cannot tell how well it works because I have just set it up, other members of the forum say it works for them...
If anyone knows of in-app solutions, please share...

Apple TV not updating podcasts.

Hi,
I use my Apple TV every day to watch different podcasts, but since a few days the podcasts in my Apple TV are not updating. I have restarted my iTunes on my computer and restarted my Apple TV, but that is not working. Any advice on what to do next?
Best,
Marco.

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I seems that my updated ATV caused problems with my fathers because he was using the same account... Also, for me even when I check the podcast through iTunes in only lists up to February 5... Seems it may be an iTunes account & sync related issue...
I hope this is resolved very soon...

ITunes not updating podcasts?!?!

So now it's up to itunes to decide when and when not to updat a podcast? I am very very busy lately and, just haven't connected it to my pc to update (this particular podcast is a subscription based podcast and doesn't auto update.on the ipod) for about a month, and have been using my ipod speakers to charge. I have noticed that it hasn't downloeded automatically on the PC like it used to when I started itunes for awhile. I just assumed I was misisng the updates when iTunes was started. (It hasn't been started very often over the last month). Today I saw an exclimation point where the refresh button was telling me I havne't listened to the podcast in awhile therefeore iTunes has stopped updating this one, and it wouldn't download new ones till I synced my ipod today. Why must I listen to a podcast i am subscribed to in order to continue receiving updates? Should I just click on one every now and then, or is there an option to turn off this horrid thing off so I can just get updates like before and not have to worry about it?

Stephen, have you tried hitting the refresh button at the bottom right-hand corner? That worked for me.

Appletv not updating podcasts - has apple sold a product then dropped support after 1 year? May 2014

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settings/notifications/Feed on home screen
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This is simply ridiculous, many of us have time sensitive content. I have never ever had troubles with updating ever. I work with over 6000 thousand podcasters and we have never seen the store take more than a hour to update.
We automatically ping the store when we update our shows. What is the use in pinging the store if you are going to ignore the ping? The ping says hey there Apple there is fresh content up please re-index me.
No other service has an issue updating? Are you saying that pinging Apple is now mute point? Or has Apple removed resources towards the pulling of feeds.
I do not see mainstream media sites having to wait 2-3 days for there listings to update? There is obviously a mechanism at Apple to update quickly after all there has not been an issue now for 4 years.
My Frustration is that my listeners are expressing frustration. I you guys don't update then they cannot download the show in a timely manner. They expect the content to be available to them by 6am EST Tuesday and Friday and over 80% of my downloads happen in the first 8 hours the content is available.
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Podcast feed not updating, Podcast feed not updating

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