Subscribed to my podcast in iTunes, but where is the date?

[EssentialParadox]

I was testing my new podcast in iTunes by subscribing manually, but when the podcast and 1st episode show up, the episode doesn't have anything in the Release Date column.

I'm very sure I've filled out the data correctly regarding pubDate, and it looks like this: <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:23:00 0000</pubDate>

Could it be because there's only one episode and it defaults to not showing the date until there are more episodes added? Or is it because I added it manually? Or is it definitely an error.

I want to be sure before I submit the cast to iTunes, for fear they'll reject it if there's an error!


-Luke

[ElNacho]

looks good...it might just be a slow update time on itunes part. give it a day and see if it's still not shown.


btw if yer in the music store now, you probably wont get kicked out. so u can chill bout that.

[EssentialParadox]

looks good...it might just be a slow update time on itunes part. give it a day and see if it's still not shown.


btw if yer in the music store now, you probably wont get kicked out. so u can chill bout that.
Oh sorry, when I said "I added manually" I meant by Advanced/Subscribe To Podcast.... So it's not part of iTMS yet.

But I'll submit it now. I'm sure it should be fine.

[siriusfox]

Run it through a validator. That 0000 at the end doesn't look right. You might try replacing it with GMT.

[ElNacho]

0000 willl work, sirius. u can do a + or - difference from GMT in hours. or 0000.

wuts yer feed, so we can take a look at it?

[EssentialParadox]

Thanks for the suggestions. I validated it using the AllPodcasts validator - it seems fine.

The date still isn't showing up within iTunes.

Here is the feed:
http://www.trance.nu/podcasts/trance_nu_podcast_rss.xml

[ElNacho]

yeah, looks fine to me in all dem validators and such.

i dont see the pubdate in itunes either
strange, dunno

[EssentialParadox]

Heh, looking at it I realized the lastBuildDate and main pubDate times were 05:25 but the episode build time was 05:23. I fixed that, although it doesn't appear to have repaired the problem (yet, at least.)

My only choice is to sit on it and hope it'll fix itself and come back if I am still having problems. Really confusing though.

I am gonna try putting GMT and see if that makes a difference...

btw, can I ask why there is a pubdate + builddate for the overall podcast? That confuses me

[EssentialParadox]

Oh that worked!!! :o

Not a single tutorial (except the iTunes example) told me to use anything other than "0000". But I am gonna be using GMT from now on :)


Do you guys edit your files by hand like this? It can't be hard for someone to make a simple podcast valid rss generator. I am using a Mac but everything I've found for this task is - apart from ALL being shareware demos - either bad code and/or unnecessary interface for what I need. Even a web app could do it. Any suggestions for this? I might make my own.

[ElNacho]

havent herd of "build date"

[EssentialParadox]

havent herd of "build date"
Hmm... interesting.

I built my file using: http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html

You can see it specifies to put:

<lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:30:00 -0500</lastBuildDate>
<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:30:00 -0500</pubDate>

But unfortunately it doesn't actually give any information on why it's necessary for one or the other.

[siriusfox]

0000 willl work, sirius. u can do a + or - difference from GMT in hours. or 0000.

wuts yer feed, so we can take a look at it?aperently not.

Oh that worked!!!


Do you guys edit your files by hand like this? It can't be hard for someone to make a simple podcast valid rss generator. I am using a Mac but everything I've found for this task is - apart from ALL being shareware demos - either bad code and/or unnecessary interface for what I need. Even a web app could do it. Any suggestions for this? I might make my own.Actually I used to do it by hand, but I don't anymore. I took the PHPosxom blog script (that was discontuned years ago). And updated the RSS fucntion to 2.0 for Firefox. Later I did a few weeks of work and updated the system so that It can generate the Podcast RSS file and ad an encosure element with the apopreate tags and such based on an extra line of text in the post file.

If you have patence I would recomend modding your version of PHPosxom. But if you don't have time, and have a PHP4 or better server, I can send you a copy of my PHP script with instructions on how to use it. I'm not making any guarnetees to how good it is, and I would strongly recomend using it with feedburner, but it gets the job done.

http://www.celsius1414.com/phposxom/

[ElNacho]

i actually think i know the problem. my feed has +0000. try adding that + and it shud work (mine shows up in itunes)