When submitting my podcast it says feed has no episodes?

I have submitted several podcasts and this is the first time I ran into a problem, perhaps things have changed in the past 9 months or so? I have one podcast as of right now and plan a weekly update
Here is the link
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PrimalLowCarbPodcast
Maybe my formatting *****? Just not sure where to begin or what software to use to generate the xml file anymore - thanks for any help - it is truly appreciated

Your episode has no playable media - iTunes does not display episodes with no playable media. Your episode needs an 'enclosure' tag containing the URL of an mp3, m4a, m4v, mp4 or mov file. Your has links to web pages containing links to mp3 files but this won't do you any good.
This page contains basic information about making a podcast, including a sample feed so you can see what one should look like:
http://rfwilmut.net/pc

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I keep getting the error " The feed has no episodes" when I try to submit my podcast. I know the xml is properly formatted because I'm not getting any errors when viewing it in a browser. I assume I must be missing some tag that is required my iTunes. Can anyone help me figure this out? See code below. I can get the podcast to show up in my playlist but there are no episodes associated with it there either.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>NetAmp Webcast Archive</title>
<link>http://www.netamp.com</link>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Broadcast by NetAmp for promotioal use only</copyright>
<itunes:subtitle>NetAmp Breakbeat webcast archives</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Lance Spencer</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary>Hosted by Lantz, Lud Dub, Tonic, and Mancub, the NetAmp internet webcast features premier breakbeat DJ talent from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Check out the show archives available on the iTunes music store.</itunes:summary>
<itunes:owner>
<itunes:name>Lance Spencer</itunes:name>
<itunes:email>[email protected]</itunes:email>
</itunes:owner>
<itunes:image href="http://netamp.com/gfx/netamp_podcast.jpg" />
<itunes:category text="Music">
<itunes:category text="Breakbeat"/>
</itunes:category>
<item>
<title>Mancub - 12/21/05</title>
<itunes:author>Mancub</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Mancub in the mix</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mancub for 2 hours in the mix.</itunes:summary>
<enclosure url="http://www.luddub.com/NetAmpfeat._ManCub12.21.05.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" />
<guid>http://www.luddub.com/NetAmpfeat._ManCub12.21.05.mp3</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2005 12:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>2:00</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>NetAmp, Mancub, breakbeat, breaks, DJ</itunes:keywords>
</item>
<item>
<title>Lud Dub and Fine Cut Bodies - 11/30/05</title>
<itunes:author>Lud Dub and Fine Cut Bodies</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Lud Dub and guests Fine Cut Bodies 2 hour DJ mix</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>This week Lud Dub hosts Fine Cut bodies for two hours of breakbeat in the mix</itunes:summary>
<enclosure url="http://www.luddub.com/NetAmpfeat._LudDubANDFineCutBodies11.30.05.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" />
<guid>http://www.luddub.com/NetAmpfeat._LudDubANDFineCutBodies11.30.05.mp3</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>2:00</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>NetAmp, Lud Dub, Fine Cut Bodies, breakbeat, Breaks, DJ</itunes:keywords>
</item>
<item>
<title>Lud Dub and Greg J - 11/16/05</title>
<itunes:author>Lud Dub and Greg J</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Lud Dub and guest DJ Greg J keep it funky for 2 hours in the mix</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>This week Lud Dub hosts SF's own Greg J</itunes:summary>
<enclosure url="http://www.luddub.com/NetAmpfeat._Lud_Dub_and_Greg_J11.16.05.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" />
<guid>http://www.luddub.com/NetAmpfeat._Lud_Dub_and_Greg_J11.16.05.mp3
</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>2:00</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>NetAmp, Lud Dub, Greg J, Fine Cut Bodies, breakbeat, Breaks, DJ</itunes:keywords>
</item>
<item>
<title>Tonic and Jayo - 11/09/05</title>
<itunes:author>Tonic and Jayo</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Tonic takes over the controls with guest DJ Jayo</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Two hours of breaks in the mix from Tonic and Jayo</itunes:summary>
<enclosure url="http://www.luddub.com/NetAmpfeat._Tonic_and_Jayo11.09.05.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" />
<guid>http://www.luddub.com/NetAmpfeat._Tonic_and_Jayo11.09.05.mp3
</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2005 12:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>2:00</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>NetAmp, Tonic, Jayo, breakbeat, Breaks, DJ</itunes:keywords>
</item>
<item>
<title>Tonic and Fiddler - 11/02/05</title>
<itunes:author>Lantz and Fiddler</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Lantz hosts guest DJ Fiddler</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Two hours of breaks in the mix from NetAmp founder Lantz and guest DJ Fiddler</itunes:summary>
<enclosure url="http://www.luddub.com/NetAmpfeat._Lantz_and_Fiddler11.02.05.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" />
<guid>http://www.luddub.com/NetAmpfeat._Lantz_and_Fiddler11.02.05.mp3</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2005 12:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>2:00</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>NetAmp, Lantz, Fiddler, breakbeat, Breaks, DJ</itunes:keywords>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

i figured it out myself. I had dropped the <ttl> tag.

"this feed has no episodes" error when submitting to iTunes

Hey there,
This is probably a simple fix but I can't seem to figure it out as I am very new to this. My link is here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/VolumizePodcast
When I submit this link to iTunes it says "this feed has no episodes"
Any ideas?

Firstly, your feed is all on one line with no line breaks: this makes it very difficult to read. I was able to get round this by automatically inserting a line break after every >, but it would be better to write the feed with breaks. It doesn't affect the validity, but it makes it much easier to troubleshoot.
Episodes are contained within the <item> and </item> tags: there are two such tags in your feed. For iTunes the actual media file is references within the <enclosure> tag within the <item> tag. Your second <item> has no enclosure tag at all. The first has a tag:
<enclosure url="http://djaaronjoseph.adej.net/volumize_podcast.xml" length="1997" type="application/xml" />
but as you see it is referencing another feed file, so iTunes will not see it as an episode.
The feed it references does contain an enclosure tag with a media file, though the name of the file contains spaces (replaced with %20 in the feed) which it shouldn't. It validates at http://www.feedvalidator.org but does not contain an iTunes category tag. The feed you listed in your post does not validate.
If you submit the feed at http://djaaronjoseph.adej.net/volumize_podcast.xml to iTunes it will probably be accepted, but you need to do more work on it first.
You might care to look at this page, which gives a sample feed and a basic description of how to set up a podcast:
http://www.wilmut.org.uk/pc
and also Apple's rather more detailed tech note:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html
I might add that Feedburner is notorious for writing messy feeds, and that you would always do better to submit a feed directly to iTunes rather than letting Feedburner do it.

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When I try and submit my podcast iTunes says this feed has no episodes. I used feed burner to create my feed. Here is the link http://feeds.feedburner.com/God321 and here is the original rss link http://podcast.den.liquidcompass.net/mgt/podcast/podcast.php?encoder_id=96&event _id=765 Any ideas? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks!

Your episodes have no playable media. Each episode should include an 'enclosure' tag containing the URL or an mp3, m4a, m4v or mov file. You don't have any enclosure tags, only a link to something with a php extension.
This page may help you: it gives some information about creating a podcast and includes a sample basic feed:
http://www.wilmut.org.uk/pc

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Hey All!
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any ideas what I need to do?
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http://www.deadlyrhythms.com/podcasts/DnBForumTest.xml
In NetNewsWire Lite this feed shows one test posting - a blog-type page, not a podcast episode directly.
Your XML file gives this as the URL for your audio file:
http://www.deadlyrhythms.com/YStrict(FinishedBouncew.mp3
Note the open bracket which should presumably be a slash.
Have a look at this page for advice about podcasts:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html

Problem uloading podcast to iTunes: "this feed has no episodes"

Hey guys,
I have been trying to upload my podcast to iTunes.
The RSS feed of the show is this: http://syn.org.au/not_used/2662
When I entered this into the iTunes page it said "this feed has no episodes."
So I went to the website www.feedburner.com and followed the instructions.
They gave me a new feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/org/topfiveblank
When I entered this the same message appeared.
What should I do?

IngmarHerzog wrote:
If I re-uploaded the episodes to the original RSS feed without the spaces would the feed be recognised by iTunes?
No, because the feed is not formatted as a podcast feed (though it's a start!). You have to construct a feed which complies to the format demonstrated in the page I linked to, or use a podcast creation program or service to construct the feed for you.
I can't advise on hosting service. Be careful with free ones: they have to get their money somehow and it often involves adverts being added. Media files hosted this way sometimes turn up in web pages offering playing or download, and this won't work: the hosting has to offer unencumbered direct access to the feed and media files.

I'm trying to update my iphone 4 with ios7.0.4 and I'm showing a a plug that must go to my itunes. when I do that it says it has to restore my phone to manufactory setting. is there any way around this

I'm trying to update my iphone 4 with ios7.0.4 and I'm showing a a plug that must go to my itunes. when I do that it says it has to restore my phone to manufactory setting. is there any way around this

No. Make a backup first.

My feed has no episodes? How can I fix this?

I use feedburner to make the podcasts. And when I attempt to upload to itunes it tells me my feed has no episodes.
I no nothing about html or xml. I just use the directions that feedburner gives to make the podcasts. My link that was generated is http://feeds.feedburner.com/RebelKrownRadio

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.
Even so, when I tried to play it in a browser (where https would be OK) it didn't play, and when I subscribed to the feed in iTunes it complained that the file 'needed authorisation' - so you seem to have placed it where your login is required to access it.
I don't know anything about Google Drive, but does it in fact provide website hosting? I rather doubt it's a good place to host your media, but if you are going to do this you need to make sure it's publicly accessible and uses http.
Also, it won't be accepted if the server does not handle 'byte range requests' - the method used by iPhones - so once you've got the access sorted out, and before you try submitting it again, you could if you like post here again and I'll run a check for byte range request handling (which isn't 100% authoritative but at least would give some idea).
When you do resbumit, be prepared to be told it's already been submitted - this is a bug in the process, to get round which you would need to change the title slightly.

Tumblr / Feedburner 'The feed has no episodes.' issue

Hi there,
I am trying to submit a new podcast feed from Tumblr via Feedburner to iTunes but I am getting the infamous 'feed has no episodes' problem and I have no idea what I am doing wrong.
The site url is www.crossingzebras.com
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The feedburner RSS feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/CrossingZebras
I'm guessing this may be an 'enclosure' issue but I was under the impression that Feedburner tidied this all away for me? Would appreciate any assistance on this one.
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Dave

Only the episode of April 8th has an mp3 file in it; and this episode does not appear in the Feedburner feed. Furthermore, the April 8th episode does not have an 'enclosure' tag necessary for iTunes. Feedburner will not add enclosure tags if they are not present in the original.
iTunes does not dispay any episode which does not have an 'enclosure' tag containing the URL of a media file.
This page includes a basic sample feed so you can see what one should look like:
http://rfwilmut.net/pc

"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:
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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).
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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...

Timeout error when submitting feedburner podcast feed to itunes

This is my first time submitting my podcast to itunes, I have created the feed with feedburner and I can manually subscribe and download the podcast in itunes however when i try to submit the feed I recieve the generic timout error, see below. I have tried for several days with different machines to no avail. Any suggestions?
Feed Address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThePortcast
Thanks in advance.

The feed appears to be OK; sometimes individual servers can behave oddly with the Store but as yours is a Feedburner feed there shouldn't be any problem, so there is no obvious reason why this is happening.
You could try the allternative submission URL:
https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/publishPodcast
If that doesn't work one possibility is that there is a problem at the Store end, which does happen though it doesn't usually go on for several days. You could try emailing support at podcasts 'at' apple.com but I have to say that you likely won't get a helpful answer. Otherwise I can only suggest giving it a day or two and trying again.

Feed Has No Episodes & Validation Issues with RSS Feed

Hello! I am beyond my wits end..having many issues getting this podcast submitted and never had such issues before. Any step-by-step help would be GREATLY appreciated!!
Here is my feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/High-achievingWomensBlogazine
And here is the page where I have followed the instructions for the audio player and files: http://www.highachievingwomen.biz/podcasts/high-achieving-womens-blogazine-podca sts/
Is there something I am missing for this feed to be picking up my audio files?
(Note: since I am using feedburner, I did install the Plugins (Audio player & FeedSmith) that they recommend to use with their system as well)
And here is what I get when I submit the RSS for validation:
Congratulations!
This is a valid RSS feed.
Recommendations
This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
line 14, column 1689: Misplaced Item (10 occurrences) [help]... nt & Marketing" /></itunes:category><item>
<atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/High-achievingWomensBlogazine" /><feedburner:info uri="high-achievingwomensblogazine" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><media:copyright>© 2011 Dr. Laureen Wishom</media:copyright><media:thumbnail url="http://www.highachievingwomen.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/LW.framed.medium.jpg" /><media:keywords>Branding,Identity,Tips,Coaching,Entrepreneurs,Laureen,Wishom,Marketplace,Positioning,Small,Business,Owners,Women,Entrepreneurs</media:keywords><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Business/Management & Marketing</media:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>[email protected]</itunes:email><itunes:name>Dr Laureen Wishom</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author>Dr Laureen Wishom</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="http://www.highachievingwomen.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/LW.framed.medium.jpg" /><itunes:keywords>Branding,Identity,Tips,Coaching,Entrepreneurs,Laureen,Wishom,Marketplace,Positioning,Small,Business,Owners,Women,Entrepreneurs</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>Global Association of High-Achieving Women</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This association is designed to gift the members with the tools and techniques to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace and assist the members in moving up, moving out or changing directions with ease, purpose and clarity.</itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Management & Marketing" /></itunes:category><item>
Thank you!!

Your feed has no media files referenced. Your web page has embedded audio players: these won't work in the feed. You need direct links to the media files, which should be mp3 or m4a, not rm, swf or wma. These links have to be contained in an 'enclosure' tag for each episode.
This page eplains the basics of making a podcast and includes a sample basic feed soi you can see what I'm talking about:
http://rfwilmut.net/pc
I'm not suggesting you should write your own feed, but the page will tell you what to look for in a feed.
You're using Wordpress: it's not really generating a podcast feed. You may need to add the PodPress plugin - I'm not sure whether you can get a podcast feed out of WordPress by itself - I'm afraid I can't advise on this.
You can ignore the FeedValidator comment - it's only because you have the 'item' tag at the end of a line, and this doesn't matter.

"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
and not
http://www.essexinfo.net/wickfordtn/assets/audio/weekly-news-side1/something.mp3
The filetype is being served correctly, as you can see from http://web-sniffer.net/
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
Content-Length: 5309578
So the question is - how to get this into iTunes? Until they can get their server sorted, the only thing I could think would be to write the xml as a pointer to my own server, put an htaccess redirect in their, to make it think it's a proper filename.
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.
Thanks!
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

3GP feed - The feed has no episodes

Hey iTuners,
Can someone please help me work out why the feed at:
http://www.oneminuteworld.com/omw-rss.xml
Works in itunes when you subscribe manually, but thinks there's no episodes when I try to submit it to the podcast directory?
Thanks!

.3gp files are often playable in iTunes or Quicktime, but it's not a filetype that iTunes podcasting formally supports. Use Quicktime or another tool to convert from 3gp to mov (or m4v or mp4) file type and it will be visible to the iTunes signup process when you submit the podcast.
-S

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I am trying to submit a podcast to the iTunes Directory but iTunes is returning a "bad http result code:404" error. This is a known good feed verified by both feedvalidator.org and iTunes U. Feedvalidator shows an encoding error ("utf-8" vs. "US-ASCII"), but otherwise has no problem. Feed is here: http://itunesmedia.seu.edu/Chapel/2013_Chapel/rss.xml. Thanks.

No obvious answer here. The feed looks fine and can be subscribed to manually in Tunes perfectly well.
The encoding error you mention occurs a lot and doesn't normally seem to cause any problems. Error 404 is 'file not found'.
We have seen cases where perfectly good feeds couldn't be read by the Store: I've never seen an expanation, and my guess - and I emphasize it is a guess - is that the server is for some reason not responding to requests from the Store when it does to all other requests.
You could start by leaving it for a bit and trying again in case it's some sort of temporary glitch. If it still doesn't work I can only suggest you ask the people running your server if they can check the server logs for when this happened.

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