submitting to itunes
by jclive
on
Jul 24, 2007 at 5:20:50 pm
With help from Cow's podcasting forum, I have created http://kitesites.libsyn.com. Now, how do I get it into itunes? I tried to submit to itunes and got an error that says, "error parsing feed invalid xml, error on line 201..." I then went to feedvalidator.org and it said, "congrats,, this is a valid rss feed..." I also read on libsyn's forum that someone put their 'feed' through the 'checker'... is there another way to check my feed?
I just barely know how to edit html, so I hope there's an easy solution.
Re: submitting to itunes by Eric Bliss on Jul 24, 2007 at 5:49:28 pm
Well, taking a quick look at things, what it looks like is happening is that you're probably feeding iTunes the wrong url. What is happening at Feed Validator is that it it going to http://kitesites.libsyn.com/ and seeing that you have an RSS feed for that page, and it then reads the rss feed, which is at the URL http://kitesites.libsyn.com/rss . iTunes isn't doing that - it's just going to the URL you specified, and it sees that URL isn't a proper XML file - it's an HTML file instead, so it can't pass validation. What you need to do when submitting your feed to iTunes is you need to give it the URL of the RSS feed, not the URL of the HTML page. If you try submitting the url http://kitesites.libsyn.com/rss then it should validate.
