Problem with podcast

Hello ladies & gentlemen,
I have the problem that my own podcast have no picture in Itunes store...
I tagged a picture to the mp3 data...but not when I registered this podcast.
is that the problem?
So I should delete the podcast and register new?
Link to itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/contempt-music-production/id387939818#
to rss feed: http://www.ormanbitch.de/podcast/podcast.rss
Please help me..
thank you very much!!!
Stefan
Message was edited by: Orman

There is no need to delete the podcast from the Store, but the feed needs substantial re-working: it's not adequate as an iTunes feed - as you see it does display the episodes with descriptions but no image nor author credit.
It's missing the essential declarations at the top, and has no 'itunes' tags, without which you will not see an image in the Store (though as you have images embedded in your media files they appear on subscribing).
This page may be of some help: it includes a sample feed so you can see what it should look like:
http://www.wilmut.org.uk/pc
The second line of your feed needs to read
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
In order to have an image appear in the Store you need the tag
<itunes:image href="URL OF AN IMAGE FOR THE PODCAST" />
and you will see that there are various other itunes tags you need if you want the information enclosed in them to appear in the Store.

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