"the feed has no episodes"

Hi all -
I've browsed similar queries and haven't gotten the answer I'm looking for.
I've set up a feed here: http://www.fearlessradio.com/feeds/recentpodcasts.xml and tried to submit it to iTunes and it gives me the error: the feed has no episodes
I can subscribe manually to the feed as well and have no trouble downloading the podcasts.
I got these recommendations from FEEDValidator:
Recommendations
This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
Your feed appears to be encoded as "UTF-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII" [help]
line 14, column 46: Email address is missing real name [help]
        <webMaster>[email protected]</webMaster>
                                              ^
line 44, column 47: Email address is missing real name (108 occurrences) [help]
            <author>[email protected]</author>
line 2058, column 4: Missing atom:link with rel="self" [help]    </channel>
Are any of these errors causing the issue (I doubt the missing name has anything to do with it, of course).
Any help would be appreciated!

UPDATE: I cleared up the missing atom:link with rel="self" and the email address missing real name issues and still am having no luck...

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http://www.deadlyrhythms.com/podcasts/DnBForumTest.xml
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Have a look at this page for advice about podcasts:
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Hey there,
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I made a podcast uaing Garageband 3, then I made a simple podcast page in iWeb. I went to File-Submit podcast to iTunes, and when it loaded iTunes, it put the feed into the fed bar in the submit podcast page. I pressed continue, and the message "The feed has no episoes" popped up. I am not surprised that something went wrong, but can somenone help me find out what it is?

Yeah... you don't have any <itunes:> tags.
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Try this...
this is my rss feed... notice how I have iTunes tags such as <itunes:subtitle>. I copied this directly from the Podcast Technical Specs and just re-typed the info between the tags.
http://www.lancerortho.com/ryan/podcast/itunes.xml
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I use feedburner to make the podcasts. And when I attempt to upload to itunes it tells me my feed has no episodes.
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Your media file (the .mp3 file) is hosted on Google Drive. The URL begins with https, which indicates an encrypted connection, and the iTunes Store cannot handle these, so you need it to begin with http.
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'it appears the feed has already been submitted'
Hi,
Having problems with my podcast, it was deleted from itunes due to a fan of the podcast making a logo which was taken off another website (I didn't know this) so due to copyright.
Have changed the logo and am trying to re-submit the podcast and getting the message above. I then asked my podcast host to change to rss feed to something different and it's still coming up with the same message. Can anybody help?

The feed is fine. As your original podcast was apparently removed from the Store you have to re-sumbit as if it were a completely new podcast, at this URL. Unfortunately there is a bug in the automated part of the process which doesn't accept that a podcast has been removed, and if one is submitted with the same title you get the error message you see. I doubt that opening a new account with iTunes will help, though I suppose you could try.
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Get this error: It appears that the feed has already been submitted

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http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html#changing
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"This feed has no episodes", but feed is 100% valid.

I'm trying to help a voluntary grou submit their podcast to iTunes.
The original XML was a mess, the system they inherited is unsupported now (to answer all the obvious upcoming questions!).
So, I rewrote and tidied the XML, it is 100% valid according to every feed validation thing I can find, and it plays fine in everything else.
But iTunes and iTunes store doesn't seem to like it, because the audio is served from a directory, eg:
http://www.essexinfo.net/wickfordtn/assets/audio/weekly-news-side1
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http://www.essexinfo.net/wickfordtn/assets/audio/weekly-news-side1/something.mp3
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The thing is, this is all voluntary, and I don't really want to be jumping through those kind of hoops if I can at all avoid it.
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Message was edited by: Jonathan at TNS

Your feed has no media files referenced. These need to be in an 'enclosure' tag within the 'item'...'/item' tags which define each episode. With no media files referenced iTunes will not accept your podcast nor display it on manual subscription.
As you are using Feedburner, either you are writing a feed yourself and submitting it to Feedburner, or you are submitting information to Feedburner and having it write the feed. In the latter case you need to add some media files according to their instructions. In the former case you may find this page helpful as it shows you a basic feed so you can see what it should look like (it's for audio but the general principle is the same).
http://www.wilmut.org.uk/pc

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