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1. pardonouropinion
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Ok I'm going to try and break these questions down so it makes as much sense as possible.

   I installed Podpress and uploaded my podcast to Wordpress. I have the RSS feed for my podcasts and I submitted the feed to Itunes. It was approved and is now listed. My question is this: Do I have to submit a "new podcast (new episodes to Itunes" every time a new podcast is created or will Itunes recognize/read my first RSS feed URL and just put any new podcasts in the Itunes directory?

   I think I know the answer to my first question. Itunes scans all podcast RSS feeds and adds new shows to its directory. Please correct me if I'm wrong

   Now my second questions is this. I input my RSS feed URL from Wordpress into Feedburner. Feedburner gives you a new RSS feed URL. When I submitted my first Podcast to Itunes should I have used the Feedburner URL as opposed to the Wordpress RSS Url? Since I did use the Wordpress RSS feed URL how do I change it on Itunes so that it "scans" the Feedburner URL and not the Wordpress RSS URL? Do I have to resubmit the podcast to Itunes as if I was doing it for the first time?

   I know these are a lot of questions and I would GREATLY appreciate some assistance. Thank you to everyone out there.

2. afrascona
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hi,
   Question 1: you are correct

   Question 2: That's why people use Feedburner, to log stats, and to be able to modify things.
   You should have given iTunes the Feedburner URL.
   You could resubmit, but then you'd have an inactive floater in there...
   Since it's already done, I'd refer to apple's tech docs, and follow their recomendations:
   http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html#changing
   Hope that helps!

3. blackforest
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   pardonouropinion: I'm interested to know, did you end up changing your iTunes feed URL to the feedburner one? How did you do it, via the newfeed element, or a 302 redirect? How did it work, was it all smooth?

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