Podcast not upto date in iTunes Music Store

Question

Hey all,
For some reason my podcast isn't showing the latest shows in iTunes...
I run the website http://www.vgmfusion.com and we host the show VGM Daily.
The podcast feed is here: http://www.vgmfusion.com/podcast.php
We do daily episodes, and currently the newest one is episode 39... but the music store is only showing upto ep. 32.
Whenever I do an update, I ping the iTunes server with this link:
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast?id=109134713
...then I go into iTunes to check if it updated, and on my "podcasts" in iTunes it will update my show's feed, and download the new episode right away, but if I look at our page in the Music Store it's always stuck on episode 32!
We're still getting all the people who've subscribed to the podcast already I'm sure, but I can't see how we'd be getting many new listeners if they think that we never update!
Please help!
My iTunes link is:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=109134713
Thanks!
Athlon 2100 XP Windows XP Pro
Athlon 2100 XP Windows XP Pro

Answer 1

Apple may have tightented their feed syntax checking
and is now failing your feed where it may have passed
previously.
As for an official comment from Apple - we see the
infrequent comment from an official rep, but nothing
you should count on.
Okay, I've go in and tried to look at the podcast feed generators code.. and I've found the following...
Using the feed validator that you linked to, I see that one of the errors is with itunes:link, saying it's an undefined channel element...
This is how the podcast.php generates the code for the feed element itunes:link ..
//huge iTunes-image (the apple method from the early days)
echo "<itunes:link rel=\"image\" type=\"video/jpeg\" href=\"".$settings['url']."/audio/itunescover.jpg\">";
echo str_replace("&", "&", itunform($settings['sitename']))."</itunes:link>\n\n";
Is there anything wrong with that? What can I change?
Secondly, the other "error" is for another element, itunes:category.
The podcast.php generates it like this:
//iTunes categories!
$allcats = array(
$settings['feedcat1'],
$settings['feedcat2'],
$settings['feedcat3'],
$settings['feedcat4']
foreach ($allcats as $thiscat) {
$main = false;
if ($thiscat != "00-00") {
if (substr($thiscat,3) != "00") {
$maincat = substr($thiscat,0,2) . "-00";
echo "<itunes:category text=\"".$cat_table[$maincat]."\">\n";
$main = true;
echo "<itunes:category text=\"".$cat_table[$thiscat]."\" />\n";
if ($main) { echo "</itunes:category>\n"; }
//normal categories
foreach ($allcats as $thiscat) {
if (filled($cat_table[$thiscat])) {
echo "<category>".$cat_table[$thiscat]."</category>\n";
So again, I ask -- what's wrong? why is the feed validator saying that it's undefined... what is undefined? the help on the page is not... helpful.
Any Gurus out there?
PLEASE!
Athlon 2100 XP   Windows XP Pro