Having some weird Itunes problems - any suggestions?

[tuffpodcast]

www.tuffpodcast.com
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TUFFPodcast
rss file : www.bruzzies.com/tuffpodcast/TUFFpodcast.rss

Files seem to be working everywhere but in i-tunes. They keep erroring/ timing out. Today my buddy tried removing some of the keywords he put into our rss file and for some reason some of the episodes are working now, but #1 and #3. Like I said you can get them directly from the feed page or from our web-site, but something with itunes is fishy. Our listeners have been saying the same thing and we cant figure it out. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!

Jason

[WyethDigital]

www.tuffpodcast.com
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TUFFPodcast
rss file : www.bruzzies.com/tuffpodcast/TUFFpodcast.rss

Files seem to be working everywhere but in i-tunes. They keep erroring/ timing out. Today my buddy tried removing some of the keywords he put into our rss file and for some reason some of the episodes are working now, but #1 and #3. Like I said you can get them directly from the feed page or from our web-site, but something with itunes is fishy. Our listeners have been saying the same thing and we cant figure it out. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!

Jason
Have you run it through a feed validator (http://validator.w3.org/feed/)?

I just ran both of your feeds through one and it said that while you have a valid feed, there were errors which could cause problems for some clients.

Eric

[tuffpodcast]

Yes i did run it thorugh a validator, we also use feedburner so i check it through there. I wasn't sure how to fix the problems with it, still figuring this out. Here's the errors:

Feeds should not be served with the "text/plain" media type [help]
line 37, column 0: item should contain a guid element (7 occurrences) [help]
</item>
line 81, column 0: The recommended <itunes:email> element is missing [help]
</channel>

I'm a little lost on these, any help you can offer would be great!

[WyethDigital]

Yes i did run it thorugh a validator, we also use feedburner so i check it through there. I wasn't sure how to fix the problems with it, still figuring this out. Here's the errors:

Feeds should not be served with the "text/plain" media type [help]
line 37, column 0: item should contain a guid element (7 occurrences) [help]
</item>
line 81, column 0: The recommended <itunes:email> element is missing [help]
</channel>

I'm a little lost on these, any help you can offer would be great!

Yeah, me too. Not the best hand coder out there. I have a few little errors of my own that I have to correct! The non burned feed is the one causing the most problems I would think (since feedburner uses your feed to generate it's feed). It showed some kind of iTunes tag errors (like the email), so that's a place to start. iTunes tags usually have "itunes" somewhere in the tag, so those should be pretty easy to spot. Make sure the tags are closed and that the info in them is correct. There were more errors there, but like I said, I'm no coding genius. Wish I could help more!

Eric

[FrankJKimeJR]

Use: http://feedvalidator.org/

You have html in your subtitle. I imagine Itunes prohibits that manner of thing to prevent pop-up/hijack issues though their program. Be patient though, iTunes takes a day or so to re-feed your rss unless you ping them.

[great]

Use: http://feedvalidator.org/

You have html in your subtitle. I imagine Itunes prohibits that manner of thing to prevent pop-up/hijack issues though their program. Be patient though, iTunes takes a day or so to re-feed your rss unless you ping them.

Interesting site. I've found great informations here. Thanks.