It seems that both of my shows since #103 are not being downloaded to people subscribing through iTunes. This is a huge disappointment, as I was hoping that iTunes 4.9 would have made things easier, not more difficult.
A suggested solution is to add my feed manually through the advanced menu in iTunes. Here’s how to do it:
1. Within iTunes, select Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu.
2. In the URL: field that appears, enter the following:
http://www.coverville.com/index.xml
3. Click OK.
4. You’ll now be subscribed to the show!
The irritating thing about this, is that it doesn’t appear to have any affect on my placement in the top 100. I’ve dropped from a high of #45, all the way down to #72. Anyone have any suggestions?
Maybe it is sporadic or only effects certain people, but I am subscribed through iTunes and have gotten everything so far up to 105. I can verify this by right-clicking, selecting “Description” and seeing the URL goes to something at phobos (specifically, the extremely large domain name ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net, which is probably an Akami-like cache) rather than directly to Coverville.
I have been having the same issues, the XML it is refering to is at:
http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/podcastRSS?id=73329622
Rather then the usual http://www.coverville.com/index.xml
I tried downloading the files from the listed Enclosures on the Phobos and get a File not found message…
I dont know if this helps any, but its what i have come up with..
I’m downloading 105 though iTunes as we speak, but it is several hours since you posted the above.
At least your podcast is listed in iTunes’ directory – mine isn’t!
It does display a little exclamation mark in front of the episode 105 but I can download 104 just fine
Downloaded episod # 105 manually. The Genre is blank (not set to Podcast). That could be a reason iTunes is not downloading it.
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I reported the problem via the “Report a Concern” button in iTunes. Right now it’s downloading 102, but only after I clicked the “Get” button next to it a few times.
I’ve had no problem with iTunes downloading the show since I’ve subscribed through 4.9
eh ok in Canada!
I’ve had no problems with Coverville and iTunes either, I have all the way through episode 105 and I subscribed via the iTunes podcast directory.
Hmm I think it is just a little too obvious that this ITunes release was about Apple making sure it had a foot in the door of podcasting. Of course ITunes has opened the door for a lot of people. But I think I will wait until itunes 5 when rather than mess around with their beta.
Indeed, it’s working remarkably well for me. However, I did it drag-n-drop old school style from the XML link on the page directly into the Podcast directory on iTunes.
*heh* You can actually drag-n-drop a lot of weird things into iTunes, like PDFs. It won’t OPEN them, mind you, but it will show that it’s a document. (It routes Acrobat or Preview in Mac OS X to open them.)
I downloaded up to 105 A ok, No probs.
I’ve received both 105 and 106 using iTunes with no problems.
Same problem. 104-105 not working. 106 does not show up.
Yay! #106 works without manual fix!
It’s been working great for me too. According to Adam on yesterday’s DSC, there were some issues because so many people were downloading at once. Maybe it was just a brief glitch that has since been worked out?
I’m not having any problems Brian. Just got 106 too 🙂
Brian, just FYI in case you didn’t know, I’ve had Coverville subscribed via iTunes feed since last week, and today for the first time it seemed to work. Ep. 106 came down. Crossing fingers for you that it is fixed.
I have added coverville to my itunes “advanced” area (subscribe to ipod) as suggested by you. BUt, I’m confused. Now that I’ve done that, what else do I need to do to make sure that I get coverville into my itunes program. As you know, it used to be simply transferred by xpodder. The new xpodder doesn’t do that — so I’ve added it manually to itunes. . . but what is the next step to get coverville loaded onto itunes, if any — (or does itunes do it automatically)