Where is my Podcast? I can download it, but it isnt registered on mainpage.

Question

Hi
I thought about posting under Silja´s thread, my question is similar, still it is its own case. Here is my problem.
Two weeks ago I posted my first podcast, through iWeb, and yes, it was a no-brainer, running Macishly smooth. I got the message that my feed - http://www.perlevennen.no/utropmisjon/Podcast_/rss.xml - was succesfully added and so on. And the URL-link to my iTunes-page is http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=303534570 .
Well, two days ago I published my second podcast, I vaguely remember something like "it had already been submitted" - and that was the message I received on the initial submission. I tried to troubleshoot this my self before going to this discussion forum - testing my feed. As a freshman to the art of podcasting I encountered several confusing experiences. I did the "Advanced-menu-testing-subscribe to podcast. So I here is my situation: When I subscribe to my own podcast, both my episodes are downloaded to my Mac. But my main-page at iTunes shows only one epidsode. I did a check on my feed, and Mr. Feed Validator was not so happy to see me; this was his feedish reproach -
Sorry
This feed does not validate.
line 11, column 4: Missing image element: title [help]
</image>
^
In addition, 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 2, column 0: Use of unknown namespace: http://www.apple.com/iweb [help]
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:iweb="h ...
line 4, column 11: title should not be blank [help]
<title></title>
^
line 50, column 2: Missing atom:link with rel="self" [help]
</channel>
^
So, anyone, I have no idea and would be really thankful to get some perspectives to where I am. My question is: Is the feed constant? Do I use the same each time I submit a new podcast? As an iWeb08-user, can I expect similar troubles in the future? My new podcast is undoubtly
Sincerly
Morten Chr. Abarhamsen

Answer 1

When you add an episode to a podcast, you don't re-submit: you simply update the feed (in the case of iWeb you add the new episode and republish). That's all you need to do. Both your episodes are available when subscribing from the 'subscribe' button on the iTunes Store page (because subscribing refers directly to your feed), but that page hasn't yet updated. It usually takes 24-48 hours for a new episode to appear in the store; it can longer, but I should give it at least 48 hours from the time you uploaded the episode before you start worrying.
The errors Feedvalidator has thrown up mostly don't matter. iWeb seems to leave out the 'title' but the 'iTunes: name' is there and shows in the Store. The UTF-8 message happens a lot and doesn't seem to matter to iTunes. Some of these errors only matter if you want the feed to be subscribable in Atom feed readers.