Author Topic: Help with RSS Feed submitted to iTunes also causing restrictions in podcast  (Read 682 times)

sweetcell

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Hi,

I have developed a podcasting wordpress website and it's using the blubrry plugin.  They had an older wordpress / blubrry setup which had an itunes feed to a podcast channel in iTunes for just their free podcasts.  Their premium paid podcasts were not submitted.   With the new development the itunes feed url for the free content changed because they now have a unique feed key to protect the feed when a member cancels their membership they no longer received the podcasts.  We updated this new URL in blubrry to submit the new URL to their iTunes channel and we're waiting on it's acceptance and updating.

In the meantime if a paid subscriber wants to add the main podcasts feed URL to the Podcast app they have a main feed key that has all the content.  However since submitting the iTunes channel feed now the Podcast app only sees the free content and not the whole feed.  But they aren't the same URL

So:

This is the feed URL to the iTunes channel we updated http://domainname dot com/category/best-case-ever/feed/?feedkey=c4271fa204b713f204508cf4058f6baf

This is the feed URL a subscriber gets and can add to any podcasting app: http://domainname dot com/feed/?feedkey=52db5951cbc1eae60b57f4effe8129ef

The main feed URL looks like this:



but all the podcast app sees is this:



Any idea why apple podcast app despite having the URL that shows everything only show the free content, which is what is being submitted it the iTunes channel.. and how to do i fix this so that the podcast app sees everything while the iTunes channel sees only the free content.

thanks