My podcast "category" is not recognized as having any download data for iTunes

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  mdavidcarlson · Member · Apr 2, 2013 at 4:35 pm

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  I am trying to submit my WP podcast feed to iTunes as a podcast, and get the error, “We had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed.” I have been following the Podcasting instructions [http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/podcasting/] and fail when iTunes “tests the feed.”

  My WP category feed is: http://reasonup.wordpress.com/category/podcasts/
  (The audio podcasts are embeded through SoundCloud.)

  I tried burning the original category feed through Feedburner, but that didn’t help.
  (The feedburner feed link is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReasonUpPodcasts)

  Research seems to point toward the original WP category feed not creating an ‘enclosure’ tag for the actual podcast file, but I need help to verify and how to resolve it this is the case.

  If it is pertinent, the audio that the WP (and feedburner) feed is trying to ‘enclose’ is linked here: https://soundcloud.com/reasonup/tm001-icebreaker-mysecret

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  mdavidcarlson · Member · Apr 2, 2013 at 7:46 pm

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  I tried adding a short link directly into the body of the post. It’s not a direct mp3 file link, but is the direct feedburner page. Also tried ‘resynching’ feedburner. No luck.

  The feedburner links passes FeedMedic and PodMedic tests for podcasts. However, testing for submission into iTunes still fails.
  … iTunes points to Feedburner with a problem …. Feedburner points to WordPress formatting problems. I just dont see any issue.

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  mdavidcarlson · Member · Apr 2, 2013 at 10:51 pm

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  Guess Ill keep my little conversation going….

  I think I have the problem identified as an embedded player. WP supports the SoundCloud embedded player, but iTunes seems to be blind to it.

  However, WordPress documentation clearly states support for a SoundCloud embedded player when submitting to iTunes via Feedburner: http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/podcasting/

  Bueller … Bueller… is this correct?