Podcasting 101: How to get into iTunes (the Q&A thread)

[antifmradio]

Hi,

I already send a message to antifm, but maybe I get here some help too.

I followed every step and in the end I reached the feed burner link to iTunes and got an email that they are reviewing it.
After 48 hours I got a second mail and they say it's not going to be added to iTunes.
I double checked everything but I don't know what is wrong.

Here is my blogger link: http://kycomixado.blogspot.com/?m=1

I am very thankful for your help.

hey Kyco... i got your message but i didnt get a responce from you.
I went to your link but it says there is no blog there

Can you help me out here?
How about this (because im sure i know whats up)
reply to this message here with a direct link to your mp3, lets start with that

[antifmradio]

Can you get this running on a 'normal' webpage instead of a blogger/wordpress site? How do I get the RSS feed to work etc?

pleb yes you can do that but you would need to know how to write the XHTML and RSS code manually.
I can do that but as the article states, that if iTunes changes the way they want to see the code written, then youd need to go and change a HUGE list of code with literally 1,000's of lines of information.

This for example is just PART of the XML feed code you would need to write.
And this isnt to make any downloads appear. This is just the page header.

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[The Mighty FV]

My advice is for the love of sweet jesus above don't use a service like podomatic, even though it is a quick way of getting a podcast on iTunes.

They pad your stats so you have to buy a higher package and if you want to leave? Don't think you can take your show feed with you...they have that locked down. I learnt that the hard way back when I did my first podcast on iTunes.

[Jester]

Podomatic does that but most of the others don't. I learnt that when switching from them over to podbean

[Kyco]

hey Kyco... i got your message but i didnt get a responce from you.
I went to your link but it says there is no blog there

Can you help me out here?
How about this (because im sure i know whats up)
reply to this message here with a direct link to your mp3, lets start with that

Hey,

thanks again for your help. I tried a bit arround and now it's working

bit.ly/KycoMixado

[The Mighty FV]

Podomatic does that but most of the others don't. I learnt that when switching from them over to podbean

I was tempted with Podbean but in the end you can't beat just hosting it on your own web space and having entire control over every aspect, just editing the XML where and when needed.

[antifmradio]

I was tempted with Podbean but in the end you can't beat just hosting it on your own web space and having entire control over every aspect, just editing the XML where and when needed.

wow
very good point my man

[Kyco]

I have one question left here:

https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/...727774855?l=en

The Podcast is working good now but how can I make a decent description with breaks and spaces in it?
Can someone please post an example for Blogger?

[antifmradio]

Sorry Kyco but you cant do that. It isnt because i dont know how or that no one wants to tell you.
Hell i can send you the HTML codes and snippets that make that happen
and even tell you where to place them but, if you do that, you break one of the golden rules as to "WHY ITUNES ISNT PUBLISHING SOME OF MY EPISODES"

many times its because there is html code in the blog post which in turn shows up in the rss feed
which in turn... itunes sees it and wont list it.

This is only because of the way itunes works "currently" so its their fault, not yours.

Now one more thing here.
we can hope that one day iTunes will allows this but the final thing i wanted to say was......
take a look at most professional producers podcast EPISODE descriptions.
Youll notice they really only use about ONE sentence, mainly because of this NO HTML ALLOWED issue.

[Kyco]

Thanks for the quick answer!

You are mainly right, but (if you have the opportunity) when you look at these podcasts in the iPhone Podcast app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/...735448884?mt=2
https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/...649744869?mt=2
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/...st/id339929690

they all have correct spaces. How did they do it?