Podcast Producer: Problems updating podcase descriptions

Hi,
I am looking to change the description of my podcast that is currently showing on iTunes. I am using Jellycast as the host.
I have navigated to the manage podcast page, changed the description to one more desired, and then also pressed the update iTunes button, but nothing is actually happening.
This problem may have been solved in a previous post but a quick search just led to confusion - complete novice!
I have also done the same thing when trying to change the copyright, but again nothing has happened.
The raw feed of the podcast is http://tominniss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/9 if this is of any help..?
Thanks in advance,

Changing the text in the feed and re-uploading will cause the change to appear in the Store, but it won't be immediate. It normally takes 1-2 days for new episodes to appear, so it will take that long for the change to appear: it's just possible that you won't see the change until you upload a new episode - it depends on whether the Store thinks the feed has changed as a result of the changed text.

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<description><![CDATA[Sri. Madurai Sundar shares his insights into the evolution of the RTP and its place in the Carnatic Music platform today.]]></description>
<itunes:subtitle>Sri. Madurai Sundar shares his insights into the evolution of the RTP and its place in the Carnatic Music platform today.</itunes:subtitle>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:04:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>MyCarnatic Interview with Sri VV Cleveland Sundaram on the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana for Monday, September 06, 2010</title>
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<author>[email protected]</author>
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Please when you have a question post the URL of the feed, not its contents. For the record, your feed is at
http://www.mycarnatic.org/MyCarnaticRSSFeed.xml
There are seven episodes in your feed, seven in the iTunes Store and seven when subscribing; so everything is working normally.
The FeedValidator reportthrows up some minor errors which you might want to look at, though none of them seems to be upsetting iTunes/
In line 2 it should be <rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"> (not 'DTD')
The 'itunes:category' tag should be in the top section of the feed, not in the items.
Line 54 - August 8th was not a Saturday.
A 'guid' tag in each 'item' is advised but not essential (it would be a unique identifier, usually the episode URL).
Line 37 - you can ignore this, I don't know what it's complaining about.
The other errors are unimportant: and as I say none of them is actually causing a problem.

Mp4/m4a podcast upload problems

I have a huge collection of AIFF files that I had exported via QT to mp4 files. As of recently, I have a group who's doing some EDU podcast related stuff who was hoping to post up my podcast list, but sent me an email letting me know that they couldn't use the mp4 files, as iTunes is interpreting them as video files, and I needed to use .m4a.
I heard from a few people on the boards that there's no fundemental difference and that renaming should be fine, although when trying to publish, we're getting this error:
"iTunes U could not update the content in this group because iTunes U encountered an unsupported enclosure extension in the specified RSS feed at iTunes Podcast Subscription. Until the issue is resolved, iTunes U continues to display the last downloadable version of the content. Verify that the RSS feed enclosures contain only approved content types (mpeg audio, mp4 video, quicktime video, PDF application, mp4a-latm audio) with the appropriate file extensions (mp4, mp4, mov, pdf, m4a) and then try again."
Does this mean we need to reencode all of our mp4 audio to m4a? If so, is there any way to avoid the recompression (to avoid the long hours of reencoding + potential loss in quality)?

Henry,
Sorry, but this is a "me too" post. I've been podcasting since Oct. of 2004 and I noticed this same problem with our podcast since I changed to AAC/m4a. I've checked and rechecked the xml, and even use identical code for our vodcast/enhanced podcast and it updates fine. Interestingly, they both work great in NetNewsWire Lite, so i really think this may be some glitch with iTunes. I know this doesn't help you, but perhaps it will shed some additional light on things.

New Podcast Episodes Not Updating if Not Subscribed

Hey there,
My podcast hasn't updated the latest two weekly podcast episodes if you haven't subscribed. If you have subscribed, the episodes are available for download. XML uploaded yesterday.
Here is my xml feed: https://s3.amazonaws.com/GraceHB_Downloads/Audio/Poderator.xml
Here is the iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/grace-lutheran-church-hb/id470693381
Thanks in advance for the help.
Lee

The 'title' tag for your 2 September episode reads
<title>Love Thy Neighbor</title>
The ode at the start isn't upsetting the iTunes application but it's upsetting FireFox when used as a feed reader and is flagged as an error by FeedValidator, so it's extremely likely that it's upsetting the Store and rendering the feed unreadable. You need to remove it.
The code appears to be for a linebreak and is, I read elsewhere, permissible in XML 1.1 but not 1.0 which is what you have specified: in any event, you don't want a linebreak and getting rid of it altogether will probably solve your problem.

Podcast Playlist Problems - 1st gen Shuffle

First off, I'm a casual user of iTunes & Shuffle - almost solely for podcasts and couldn't figure out how to make a playlist stick on the iPod; it would revert to file order, not playlist order. Couldn't reorder in the Library>Podcasts folder. Autofill wouldn't work. After much searching, and blundering about including restoring the Shuffle, I've made some progress.
1. I understand that you cannot arbitrarily re-order the Library>Podcasts folder.
2. For Autofill to work, all selected Podcasts must have the option 'Skip when shuffling' unchecked; updated podcasts seem to have this checked automatically so you have to redo the option after an update but you can do so globally for all items in Library>Podcasts or in a Playlist. Doing it in one seems to change that property for all lists.
3. My problem with the playlist order being preserved in iPod seems to have been cured by the radical surgery of rebuilding the Library.
a)For my initial test, I simply relocated iTunes Library.itl to a safe folder; on the next start, iTunes built a new itl file and, of course, the library was empty. I subscribed to a few podcasts and was able to build dumb and 'Smart' playlists with which I could Autofill.
b)For my next test, I replaced the new library file with the original, exported the library to a XML file in a safe place, closed iTunes, relocated the itl file again and started afresh. Then imported the previously exported XML file which brought back all my playlists, etc, but the podcasts had re-subscribe buttons. This seemed to work fine until I subscribed to and downloaded another podcast. I then lost the ability to re-order in the Smart Playlist and the iPod playlist. Somehow I got it back; not sure if it was that 'Skip when shuffling' option again or it was because I did a global change of genre from Podcast to News & Political - maybe that diddled the file favorably.
4. I'm not sure how to preserve my playlist order through podcast updates - my order not being one that matches a sort field. These are periodic podcasts (daily, weekly). If I set the subscription to auto-delete, the item disappears from my dumb playlists and drops to the bottom of the smart playlist when the podcast is updated. I'm not sure what happens if subscriptions are set to 'Do not auto delete' except that there is a growing sublist of prior items in the Library>Podcasts list and the Playlists still point to the one that was most recent when it was added to the Playlist. How do you keep a playlist sync'd to the latest podcast. I think the problem is that each regular podcast is a 'song' entity belonging to a common album, the name of the show. Each 'song' entity or podcast bears a unique id that the playlists use to point to it. What I want is for the playlist to point to the album and have only the latest 'song' playable. Any hints as to what I might do?
Thanks,
Tom

It looks improbable that an arbitrarily ordered playlist of podcasts can be automatically maintained in order through successive podcast updates. I've adopted the following procedure to manually maintain the order with a minimum (I hope) of steps. I'd welcome any suggestions for improvement.
I subscribe to podcasts that are updated hourly, twice daily, daily, and weekly. But I only do an iTunes update infrequently and rarely get to listen to the playlist on the Shuffle - maybe on a long drive or while painting a room.
Build Playlist
1. In Library>Podcasts I delete all of the prior podcast links keeping only the most recent. Select All, right-click and select the 'Do not autodelete' option. Select All, right-click>Get Info and in Multiple Item Information dialog window, Check and set Remember Position - Yes, Skip When Shuffling - No, Equalizer Preset - Loudness, OK.
2. In Library>Podcasts I Select All (Ctrl-A), right-click and select the 'Do not autodelete' option. Select All, right-click>Get Info and in Multiple Item Information dialog window, Check and set Remember Position - Yes, Skip When Shuffling - No, Equalizer Preset - Loudness, OK.
3. Create new Smart Playlist (CtrlAltN) with 'Match the following rule' set to 'Podcast is true' + other rules, e.g., 'Date Modified is in the last x days' and check 'Live Updating'. Now you have a playlist that has all (or whatever your rules allow) your podcast downloads in it and you can re-order the podcasts arbitrarily.
Maintain Playlist in Order
1. After updating Podcasts, repeat step 2 above because the updated podcasts don't inherit iTunes properties from the prior ones.
2. Select your Smart Playlist. The updated podcasts will be automatically added to the bottom of the list. The ones they should replace should have remained in position provided the rules don't remove them and thus provide place markers for where the updated ones are to be dragged and dropped.
3. Return to Library>Podcasts and delete the prior ones. They will also disappear from your Playlist.
4. With iPod inserted and showing under Devices, select it and Autofill from the playlist created above.
I'd welcome any suggestions for improving the procedure.
Tom

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