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1. pwradio
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hi,

   My category feed http://pwradio.net/category/fm/feed/ is not updating in iTunes, though episodes are downloading when added.

   I'm sure its something I'm doing or that I did, but I can't seem to sort it out. Any help is appreciated!

   Thanks,

   Shawn

2. ntm
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hi Shawn,

   the main problem is probably that it takes a lot of time (maybe to much) to load this feed. I can open it in my browser. It takes some seconds until I see the content. But when I try to validate it e.g. with http://validator.w3.org/feed , the validator says always "Server returned timed out". The iTunes Store is maybe as impatient as the validator. (But I have opened the feed in my browser and copied and pasted the source code into the validator: the feed is valid! All settings are okay and podPress does not make funny things.)
   I believe that the server of your blog is maybe a little bit slow.
   If you can not do something about that circumstance then you could try speed up things a little bit by reducing the number of posts in the feeds. Site Admin > General Settings > Reading Settings > Syndication feeds show the most recent The default value is 10 posts. Usually that is a good setting. podPress should not slow down the feed like in your case if this value is 10. Maybe try 8 or 5.?

   Tim

3. pwradio
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hi Tim,

   That solved the validator, now to see if iTunes picks it up.

   Thanks as always for your help!

   Shawn

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