Multiple feeds pointing to wrong URL in iTunes

[entropyjim]

Hello everyone,

I have been wrestling with this problem off and on in my free time for the last few months.

I run the podcasts for http://metalinjection.net/radio. The site uses wordpress, each show has a different category, and each category has its own rss feed. I then take each feed and pass it off to feedburner, and the feedburner feeds are submitted to iTunes.

The problems started when I tried installing a wordpress plugin called podpress (http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/). After installing the plugin, now all feeds are pointing to http://metalinjection.net/radio/?feed=rss2 in iTunes. Needless to say I immediately uninstalled podpress and stomped on it repeatedly.

Regardless of what happened to cause this problem, I'm now stuck with multiple feeds in iTunes pointing to the main feed for my site, instead of their own feed.

Is it possible to take ownership of an iTunes feed and point it to the right URL? Do I need to contact apple? Is there any hope?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[dpeach]

I have been using PodPress for a short time (I love it!) and I think I know what may have happened. I have no answers for how to fix the problem now though.

In PodPress when you told it (or it figured it out itself) what the RSS feed address was it then passed that directly to iTunes. I am not sure the steps between PodPress/Feedburner/iTunes, but I assume that it totally bypassed feedburner and therefore destroyed your feed address to iTunes.

Again, sorry for not being able to recommend a fix for the problem. I think PodPress was made for a more simplistic setup.

May I ask why you have multiple feeds going to feedburner (I know nothing about feedburner) instead of one? I am new to this and would like to see what your reasoning might be and see if I want to complicate my life in that way as well.

[WyethDigital]

I don't know about "claiming" a feed in iTunes, but there is a way to redirect the link to a feed. There's a code you can enter into your feed immediately after the <channel> tag.

The tag is:
<itunes:new-feed-url>http://YourFeedURLhere.com</itunes:new-feed-url>

(where "http://YourFeedURLhere.com" is the URL of your podcast feed)

Then ping iTunes. Or wait for iTunes to hit your feed automatically. You could also hit the "report a problem" button on each podcast's page.

Ok, now that the "help" part is done to the best of my ability... why on earth would you want to do it that way? A search of iTunes shows 5 different shows for you. If the intention is to have a different show for each category of music, why not just make multiple blogs instead of having a feed for each blog entry? Seems to me like you're going about this the hard way...

Eric

[entropyjim]

I don't know about "claiming" a feed in iTunes, but there is a way to redirect the link to a feed. There's a code you can enter into your feed immediately after the <channel> tag.

The tag is:
<itunes:new-feed-url>http://YourFeedURLhere.com</itunes:new-feed-url>

(where "http://YourFeedURLhere.com" is the URL of your podcast feed)Then ping iTunes. Or wait for iTunes to hit your feed automatically. You could also hit the "report a problem" button on each podcast's page.


Ah excellent, I think I can use this to fix the problem. Thanks a million!


Ok, now that the "help" part is done to the best of my ability... why on earth would you want to do it that way? A search of iTunes shows 5 different shows for you. If the intention is to have a different show for each category of music, why not just make multiple blogs instead of having a feed for each blog entry? Seems to me like you're going about this the hard way...

Eric

Are you referring to the fact that each iTunes entry has the same name? That's a different problem, I have to update the wordpress' rss php script to include the category name based on the feed that called it. I had it working before but I've upgraded to a new version of wordpress since and forgot to fix it.

I'm not doing different feeds for each blog entry, each is a different show and category, all using one blog (which is much easier than running multiple blogs).

[WyethDigital]

I'm not doing different feeds for each blog entry, each is a different show and category, all using one blog (which is much easier than running multiple blogs).
Ok, I just didn't understand your original post, then. Makes more sense to me.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Eric

PS -- I'm not sure how often you put out a new show, but that redirect tag will change your feed in the iTunes directory within a few hours, and the change is permanent (until the next time you redirect the feed). However, it's best to keep that redirect in your feed for at least a couple of weeks, just so that everyone using your old iTunes feed has a chance to get updated.

[entropyjim]

PS -- I'm not sure how often you put out a new show, but that redirect tag will change your feed in the iTunes directory within a few hours, and the change is permanent (until the next time you redirect the feed). However, it's best to keep that redirect in your feed for at least a couple of weeks, just so that everyone using your old iTunes feed has a chance to get updated.
Actually, now that I've thought about this more, I don't think it will work. Since all shows are now pointed to the same feed, any redirect I give them will just redirect everything to a new feed. I have no way of manipulating individual feeds, ugh.

Guess I'm back to square one :(

[WyethDigital]

Actually, now that I've thought about this more, I don't think it will work. Since all shows are now pointed to the same feed, any redirect I give them will just redirect everything to a new feed. I have no way of manipulating individual feeds, ugh.

Guess I'm back to square one :(

If you don't think the code will work, each podcast in iTunes has a "report a problem" link. You could try using that to ask them to redirect your feed. Granted, it'll take a while...

Eric