Can't get iPodderX to recognize my feed from Feedburner

[comicgeek13]

I am definitely new at this and have been trying like crazy to post my podcasts so that different aggregators, like iPodderX, PoddumFeeder and PlayPod will pull down my feeds. I have been following a lot of the steps that I have read in this forum (which have been extremely helpful) but my feeds are not recognized. I have been using my iDisk at my .Mac account to hold my podcast .mp3s and my blogspot page can link to them without any issue. Just can't get the aggregators to pull them down.

Any suggestions?

[theFerf]

that is strange. it looks like feedburner is converting the link to your mp3 to the <enclosure/> tag but the XML is not recognizing it as an enclosure and is converting all the HTML to text.

You do have SmartCast checked on don't you?

Here is what im seeing:
&lt;enclosure url="http://homepage.mac.com/dilly13/podcasts/Podcast2.mp3" length=13376715 type="audio/mpeg"/&gt;
Should Be:
<enclosure url="http://homepage.mac.com/dilly13/podcasts/Podcast2.mp3" length=13376715 type="audio/mpeg"/>

it looks like it is feedburners fault, but not sure why it is doing it this way.

another thing, and maybe i dont know what im talking about, is to include a link to your mp3 inside your text (like below your description) instead of making the link the title. just ideas.

[comicgeek13]

I actually put that enclosure in the HTML portion of the post to see if the XML may recognize. I do have SmartCast checked on. I used to put a link for the actual .mp3 in the post before this. I am now using the Link feature to put the actual link in the title.

I just removed the enclosure tag and repinged the feed.

The XML file shows the title link to be an HTML file.

<link>
http://comicgeeks.blogspot.com/2005/02/podcast-2-02072005.html
</link>

I just changed my first podcast post to include the link to my .mp3 inside the post.

The XML file shows the code to be this: (this is truncated)
<description>

Podcast#1 (http://homepage.mac.com/dilly13/podcasts/Podcast1.mp3)


</description>

It hasn't ever appeared as an enclosure in FeedBurner's XML.

Any other suggestions.

[theFerf]

yours isnt the first to have problems. i have tested a few others too, as well as added a test myself and it is not working with them either.

i had emailed feedburner about 4 days ago, but have not heard back yet. there is obviously a problem other than you feed, becuase you are not the only with this problem.

[comicgeek13]

I'm emailing them also about the issue and will let you know what they say, when they do get back to me.

Thanks for the help!
-Tom

[comicgeek13]

Here is the answer! It is .Mac's iDisk that is not working in coordination with FeedBurner.

"It seems that you have your feed set up correctly, but we're not able to detect the podcasts because homepage.mac.com does not support a HEAD request. When we test your links to see if they link to an audio file, we receive a HTTP 403 Error (Invalid Method). I've never seen any other host give this error.

If you want to test this for yourself, try putting your mp3 file on some other host somewhere and update the link -- you'll probably find that it works.

We unfortunately have to use the HEAD method to get the content-type and content length of the file so we can properly generate the enclosure element. If we think of some other way for this to work on homepage.mac.com, I'll let you know, but for now it looks like that host is not playing nice.

Sorry I don't have better news for you. The good news is, you were doing everything correctly!"

I am now just creating my own XML and linking to it from Blogger. I will just have to update it manually. We'll see how this works.

[theFerf]

i wonder why they never replied to me? makes me wonder what my testing problems may be b/c Im not on a .mac account.

[comicgeek13]

Well,

I was reading the forum over at iPodder.org and also listening to Daily Source Code and Adam was having the same problem with his .Mac server. He is encouraging everyone and anyone to look into this issue. If you get a chance, listen to today's Daily Source Code (02/11/05) for more on this issue.

Quick update! This question is starting to pop up on the .Mac discussion pages over at Apple. Will keep in touch with any further information I get! :D