Author Topic: I did something terrible to my iTunes feed  (Read 852 times)

Allegra.sinclair

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I did something terrible to my iTunes feed
« on: January 28, 2014, 09:01:52 pm »
When I initially setup the Powerpress plugin and feed everything was hunky dunky. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that my iTunes listing suddenly says my podcast source is 'unknown' and only 1 episode was showing instead of the 10-12 that previously appeared.

The podcast feed is:  http://allegrasinclair.com/feed/podcast/

The iTunes subscription URL is: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/allegrativity-powercast-allegra/id716891965

Was there a recent update to the plugin?

Thanks in advance, Allegra

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Re: I did something terrible to my iTunes feed
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2014, 10:44:03 am »
iTunes is not pulling your site feed.  It's pulling a feedburner feed.  The problem is likely something in feedburner.  Your site's feed looks good.

If you would like to leave feedburner, see this: http://create.blubrry.com/manual/syndicating-your-podcast-rss-feeds/leaving-feedburner/

If you want to keep feedburner, you will have to contact Google for help.

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Allegra.sinclair

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Re: I did something terrible to my iTunes feed
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2014, 12:17:46 pm »
Thank you! I deleted the Feedburner feed. How long does it take for that to 'clear'?
  Sincerely, Allegra

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Re: I did something terrible to my iTunes feed
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2014, 02:00:37 pm »
As long as you put the redirect in there, itunes should pick up the change within 72 hours.

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Re: I did something terrible to my iTunes feed
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2014, 02:31:52 pm »
Well, it's been about a week and this feed is still broken. Any ideas of what else I could try?

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Re: I did something terrible to my iTunes feed
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2014, 02:38:00 pm »
What was your feedburner feed? And what is your current feed?

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Re: I did something terrible to my iTunes feed
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2014, 02:45:28 pm »
I didn't realize that iTunes was picking up my feedburner feed before. That was never for the podcast, but for the entire website. I'm using the feed provided by the PowerPress plugin, http://allegrasinclair.com/feed/podcast/.

Could the problem be the custom podcast channel?

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Re: I did something terrible to my iTunes feed
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2014, 04:10:38 pm »
Ok.. I think I *might* have figured it out.   iTunes is pulling "http://allegrasinclair.com/feed/"  not http://allegrasinclair.com/feed/podcast/  which would normally work. 

What I would do is a 301 redirect from /feed/ to /feed/podcast (see: http://create.blubrry.com/manual/syndicating-your-podcast-rss-feeds/changing-your-podcast-rss-feed-address-url/ )

Then when iTunes updates, remove the redirect. 

I was under the impression that you were using feedburner.. I thought that's how this whole thread started  ???

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Re: I did something terrible to my iTunes feed
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2014, 05:22:49 pm »
Mike, when you checked my iTunes before it WAS pulling a feedburner feed, but that was a mistake which I already corrected. :)
If I follow your directions to re-direct the feed, aren't I re-directing the feed for my entire blog to the powerpress feed? Which I don't want to do, right?
Shouldn't changing the iTunes New Feed URL have fixed this?

Allegra
« Last Edit: February 05, 2014, 05:45:30 pm by Allegra.sinclair »

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Re: I did something terrible to my iTunes feed
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2014, 08:31:44 am »
Well, When you put the redirect in at Feedburner, you should have put the /feed/podcast/ feed in there.  iTunes updated with the redirect you put in feedburner for your podcast which was your main site feed. 

Now, like I said, I would (if I were in that position) do a 301 from your main site feed to the podcast only feed.   This will get iTunes to change to the Podcast Only feed.  Once that is done, turn off the redirect.  Write a blog post saying that if you are subscribed to the blog's main feed, you will need to resubscribe. 

The iTunes new feed URL tag (I don't believe) goes in the main site feed.. Just the podcast only feed.  So iTunes wouldn't know anything about it since it's looking at your main feed.

-Mike