Pointing iTunes to a new feed?

Hi Folks,
How do I get iTunes to point to a new URL for my feed when the old URL is no longer valid?
It used to be hosted at Switchpod but I moved it. I placed the NewFeed tag in the xml file and assumed it had updated since it picked up a new episode. At that point I killed the account at switchpod. Now after pinging it with the iTunes ID I can see that it is still looking for it at switchpod.
In case it is helpfull here is the new feed url...
www.funinyourcity.com/feed.xml
Thanks in advance,
Mike
Windows XP Pro

Hey Cat Lake,
First off thanks for the reply…To answer your question, no I don't have access to the old feed anymore as I killed that account. However that old feed was redirecting to the new location for a good week prior to me killing it. During that time the new feed had the NewFeed tag in it and did update the addition of an episode. I guess it just never updated the iTunes feed URL.
So, with that said... is there anyway to now update the feed url since the old url is dead? Or do I need to kill the podcast from iTunes and then resubmit?
Thanks,
Mike
Windows XP Pro

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http://rfwilmut.net/pc

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xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
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Given that has happened I thought I could use the opportunity to create a new feed that will pick up all my previous podcasts (and obviously new ones as and when I do them) but also I can finally put some artwork so that Tory Radio on itunes actually has the nice logo I would like.
I previously just submitted www.toryradio.podbus.com into itunes which is where I host and it has picked them all up.
How for a complete technophobe - can I get something that I can submit to Itunes as a new feed that will pick up all the old podcasts, new ones and include a logo?
Is it easy? How can I do it?

I can't check on iTunes until tomorrow morning, but in the meantime I can tell you what's wrong with your original feed. The top two lines read
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
They should read
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
Without the itunes URL in the second line iTunes cannot parse the required tags to show your episodes. I would guess that the line was there originally but got removed, after which iTunes would not recognize new episodes. Put it back and reload the feed, and it should work if iTunes hasn't terminated your podcast in the meantime.
But to answer your original question: assuming you have access to both feeds; copy everything in the original feed from the first <item> to the last </item> near the bottom.
In the new feed, find the last </item> tag at the bottom (just above the </channel> and </rss> tags), start a new line just after it and insert the material you posted from the original feed (though there are an awful lot of episodes there, and though it's technically not a problem you might want to consider whether you really need all of them in the feed).
If you don't have direct access to the feeds but are using one of the podcast creation services which don't allow this, you will have to follow whatever method they provide for adding the episodes, possibly one at a time.

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Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
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Geek,
Thanks, I set up the <itunes:new-feed-url> tag. When I updated my podcast in iTunes it found the new feed. I should have read the specifications better.
We will be sending the old domain name to the new URL soon, so I am glad I got this done as it says to keep the old feed for at least 48 hours. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Mike

Looking to point iTunes (playlists and all) to a new location

Hello all,
I'm in a bit of a pickle of my own making, and I greatly appreciate any help anyone is able to offer on this one.
I've been using iTunes as a playlist jukebox much more than as a file organizer. Here is my normal mode and sequence of operation, largely because I came into using iTunes later than some other programs out there (like MusicMatch Jukebox or WMP).
1. Rip tracks to my hard drive using another program.
2. Add folders/files to iTunes, then create playlists, usually one CD=one playlist. If I have a multi-CD set, I will create a playlist of all the CDs together, instead of individual playlists for each CD.
3. I do not have iTunes organizing files for me, and I do not create files when adding to the library, because they are already created on my hard drive.
Several months ago, my 80GB internal drive was running out of room, so I copied everything to a 100GB external drive and started ripping newer tracks out there as I acquired them, and creating new playlists for those newer tracks. I did not re-organize my iTunes library at that time, because I didn't know what to do to accomplish that. So, my current iTunes library has older playlists pointing to files still on my C: drive and newer ones (after the copy to the external drive) to my external drive.
I also have some music that was imported directly into iTunes, mostly acquisitions from the Music Store. Those files reside exclusively on my C: drive, no copies out on the external drive at this time, and if need be, they could stay on C:, but if I can also move them to the external drive and iTunes can still find them, that would be great.
I would like to retain all my playlists that are currently referencing files on C:, but still point iTunes to the external drive for every file and playlist reference, since copies of the files on older C: drive playlists are now on the external drive, except for the directly imported files already mentioned. And, if you didn't see this one coming, I'd really like to reclaim the music file space on my C: drive, only after iTunes doesn't look there anymore for files to satisfy the playlists. Well over 50GB stands to be gained here, once reclaimed.
Now the kicker - I have over 20,400 tracks and well into the hundreds of playlists.
So there you have it - I have dual copies of most of my music files until I can get iTunes to forget about the old copies entirely, and to not have to re-create those hundreds of playlists to reference files on the external drive.
I have thought about using an editor on my iTunes library XML file to change all references to C: to my external drive name (and top-level folder references to change as well), but no editor (XML or otherwise) I have in my arsenal will hold a file this big.
Again, many thanks in advance to anyone(s) of you kind readers who might be able to throw this old (53 YO) dog a bone of useful information.
With a little bit of hope and a whole lot of thanks,
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Dell Dimension 2400 Windows XP External hard drives

Once more, thanks for responding, Mimico!
Bad news here, I'm afraid.
The consolidation aborted because apparently a file name was too long for the copy, and there was only a puny generic message box notifying me of samesaid abort. No reference to what track(s) caused the problem. I could be all day chasing that one down. No can do.
Needless to say, I went back to the original library file on my C: drive. Then desperation set in. I felt I had no alternative but to delete 99 3/4% of my library entries manually, leaving only those tracks that I purchased through the iTunes Store. The plan being, to also kill all existing playlists and rely on the Browser instead, once I got my track references lined up, supposedly by the following step.
Then I did an import, pointing to the master folder on my external drive, thinking it would pick up everything underneath, per the directions in the Help file for mass imports of music.
The import managed to pick up only about 1/7 of my collection on the external drive, even though it is all there on that drive under that folder. There may be different layers of subfolders and files under the main folder, but the predominating structure is an artist subfolder, than a CD subfolder, then the associated MP3 track files at the lowest level. Some of those CDs with that structure got picked up, many others did not. Bad result.
Is there any alternative to manually searching for missed folders and importing them one folder at a time? That would be the biggest help to me at this stage, I'm afraid. Otherwise, I guess I have to do what needs to be done.
Sitting in my doghouse,
Gorgo

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iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
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The Store won't redirect to the new feed at http://www.tripodbroadcasting.com/givethatsomethought/feed/ until the next time it checks the old feed. You posted the latest episode only today: it usually takes 1-2 days for new episode to appear in the Store as it caches feeds and visits them in rotation to check for changes. When this happens it will transfer to the new feed. Subscribers are already redirected to the new feed and see the third episode.

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Hi all,
I did submit an RSS feed address to iTunes when I created it in October 2011, at this time the adress was :
http://feeds.feedburner.com/JeCommenceABloguer
When I published my first podcasts it worked very well but once I published some other posts in my blog WordPress (without media enclosed) my podcasts disappeared from iTunes.
So I created a new feed only for podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jcab-podcasts.
I want now to tell iTunes to read this new address BUT the original one must keep active for other stuff.
Is anyone could provide some help with me that would be great :-)
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