#1: With the latest Apple iOS 17 update, my podcast artwork is not filling the full space compared to other shows.
Screenshot:?https://take.ms/c2WVO
#2 My episode artwork also doesn’t seem to be showing properly even though it validates fine:?https://www.castfeedvalidator.com/validate.php?url=https://josephliu.co/podcast/feed/podcast/?
Screenshot of my PowerPress settings from example episode:?https://take.ms/bxDV2
Any ideas how to fix these? Thanks!
]]>Our old posts too, are also now showing the full post. I noticed that itunes:summary is no longer listed here: in their RSS guide: https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itcb54353390
I don’t think anything is invalidating our summary tag, but I thought I would check and see if this is now a known thing that it’s no longer used? Is there any other way to stop itunes from using our full podcast post?
Interestingly, our episode listings on the apple podcast website (https://podcasts.apple.com/) is still respecting the summary.
THANKS
]]>Is this something easy to do? I looked around and couldn’t see a way to do it. Thanks!
]]>Any thoughts/assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much.
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Description
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I’ve filled the description, category and copyright fields and I don’t see one for artist (although I’ve filled in author).
Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
BTW, when I run it through the Cast Feed Validator, I get this:
<strong>X Successfully completed feed download tests.
X Successfully completed XML parsing tests.
X Successfully completed RSS feed tag tests.
X ERROR: itunes:owner > itunes:email tag is empty.
X ERROR: No category selected. Your feed should have at least one itunes:category tag so that users can easily find your podcast.
X ERROR: No itunes:image tag in feed. Cannot validate feed artwork.
X WARNING: No itunes:explicit tag in feed. This should be included so that Apple Podcasts can put a parental advisory warning on your podcast's listing if necessary.
]]>But I’m lost on how to add the Apple Podcasts icon.
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I’ve confirmed this behavior in Apple Podcasts and Overcast, although Overcast at least preserves formatting while Apple Podcasts doesn’t. Stitcher condenses all episode notes down to about 150-250 characters. I can’t find anything different between episode posts in my feed that correctly abbreviate episode notes and ones that don’t.
I’m hoping to get all episodes to display shortened episode notes, not just the 100 most recent – both to keep my feed size low and to improve readability in the Apple Podcasts app.
Examples below. Both episodes’ blog posts use the same format and have roughly the same length of text.
Desired behavior: Episode 232 (https://www.xplainthexmen.com/2019/01/232-careful-with-that-axe-cerise/) shows the following episode notes in Apple Podcasts, using the first 1-sentence paragraph and ignoring the rest:
“In which tragedy strikes; leisure suits are underappreciated; Jubilee is fundamentally opposed to feelings; that MCU joke would definitely have been hilarious; we have trouble accepting Beast as a 20-something; when Gambit and Rogue work, they work; Wolverine makes an unlikely agony aunt; Dr. Strange was the mentor Illyana Rasputin really needed; and What If: Magik is pretty much a perfect comic.”
Undesired behavior: Episode 230 (https://www.xplainthexmen.com/2019/01/230-touchstones/) shows the following episode notes in Apple Podcasts, which are the full but unformatted episode post:
“Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which tragedy strikes; leisure suits are underappreciated; Jubilee is fundamentally opposed to feelings; that MCU joke would definitely have been hilarious; we have trouble accepting Beast as a 20-something; when Gambit and Rogue work, they work; Wolverine makes an unlikely agony aunt; Dr. Strange was the mentor Illyana Rasputin really needed; and What If: Magik is pretty much a perfect comic. X-PLAINED: The Human High Council Many terrible things that have happened to the Rasputin family Uncanny X-Men #303 X-Men #24 What If: Magik A tonal disconnect Leisure Suit Larry A prospective movie marathon Insecurity Molecular Cohesion Unit The death of Illyana Rasputin (and its aftermath) Death in America A dubious idea for a theme park A reunion Papa Gumbo’s Cajun Cookout Illyana Rasputin and Dr. Strange Navigating vs. erasing trauma Why What If: Magik is absolutely amazing How to cite X-Men volumes Earth-242 (Earth on Fire) NEXT EPISODE: The other X-Cutioner! Check out the visual companion to this episode?on our blog! Find us on?iTunes?or?Stitcher! Jay?and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to?help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that?right here! We’re in the process of migrating our?official shop to TeePublic!?Click over to check it out!?(You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet?at Redbubble.)”
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
]]>It was reported to us that the page above is suddenly showing “Season 1”, in Apple Podcasts. I am unable to find where to change the season settings in either the post or in the general settings, for the show. We are currently using version 8.4.7. Please let me know if there’s any additional information you need.
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