Why subscribing to my podcast shows zero episodes?

When you subscribe to my podcast "Truth In Lending Show" it doesn't show episodes on iPhone and other devices, can you help?

Your iTunes Store page is at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/truth-in-lending-show/id517892006?mt=2
Your feed is at http://www.getamortgageplan.com/podcasts/TILShow040112.xml
It all works on a Mac. I don't have an iOS device to check this, but I can offer a guess: your 'enclosure' tags don't have a 'length' attribute, which should contain the size of the file in bytes. Since iOS devices call part of the file at a time (the 'byte range requests' method) it seems likely that if they don't know what the file size is it may prevent them from accessing them. As I say, it's a guess, but the attribute should be there in any case. (Your server does handle byte range requests, so that itself isn't a problem). However this relates to actually downloading the episodes; if they aren't actually showing at all I can't suggest why not; you could ask in the iPhone forum and perhaps someone can check if the the same problem arises for them.

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