PCA Feed Validation Problems

[RioGator]

Hi,

I'm trying to edit an existing podcast and also add a new feed and I keep getting:

Critical Errors :

CRITICAL Channel doesn't contain any enclosures (code: 2000)The feeds run without errors at feedvalidator.org. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Jerry

[Yotto]

It would be impossible to troubleshoot your problem without a link to your feed, but in lieu of that here's my <enclosure> tag for my latest show:

<enclosure url="http://planetretcon.com/podcast/volcanicast_20070707.mp3" length="24721536" type="audio/mpeg"/>

[WyethDigital]

A lot of people mistakenly submit their feeds to podcast directories without actually having an enclosure, and PCA seems to be especially sensitive to it. The fact is, a feed without enclosures is not an invalid RSS feed (it could be a text blog, for instance), so Feed Validator won't flag that as a problem. But without enclosures it's not a valid podcast feed, which is why PCA says it's rejecting it. I wish Feed Validator would have a separate tab or validation routine for podcast specific RSS feeds, but they don't (at least not that I know of).

In any case, you need to have enclosures (tagged links to rich media like mp3 or mov files) in your feed, and that your blogging or RSS building software is properly configured to format for enclosures (if it isn't already).

Eric

[RioGator]

Thanks to Yotto and Wyeth for your prompt replies, but my feed definitely has enclosures. I do not encode the RSS myself but I use Podcast Maker which came highly recommended. I checked with their tech support and they said "Your Podcast feed has all the appropriate enclosure tags so we are not quite sure why it was rejected."

I'm hoping that it is something specific to Podcast Alley, here is my feed, if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated:

http://babes4pods.com/podcasts/podcast.xml

Jerry

[Yotto]

Your enclosure line is present but I suspect incorrect. the type is "video/mp4" which, if I had to guess, is the problem. I don't do a video show so don't know what should be there, and I could be totally off. Assuming that is correct, I see nothing else "wrong" with the feed though, as a human, I could of course have missed something. I'd send a message to support here about it if a video podcaster says "video/mp4" is okay.

[WyethDigital]

My enclosure type says "video/quicktime." You might also try "video/mpeg" or "video/mpeg4"

Another possible issue is this remark at FeedValidator (http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbabes4pods.com%2Fpodcas ts%2Fpodcast.xml):
Your feed appears to be encoded as "utf-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII"

PCA may not like the conflicting info.


Eric