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Mark,

Check line 107 in podcast.php. On enclosure url="?php should be url="<?php

Check or remove line 108. The duration does not validate xml and won't feed right if it does not pass a mm:ss or m:ss, or ss as its format. It goes back to the sb_mp3_length routine which may not work if it falls out.

I will look into it greater sometime this weekend. But for those that have .42.2 you should update those lines if you want to display your feed.

I am having good feeds to itunes and normal feeds. I did add my extra itunes data  (image, personalize descriptions)

The file I downloaded is missing the opening < for the ?php code within the enclosure tag (see excertpt below).  As for the itunes:duration tag. I check with feedvalidator and it flag that line as invalid. I double check and just try to click on the other subscribe line in the loaded site and it does not load up the feed. If you remove it or just put in minutes and seconds (i.e. 7.30) then the feed works. Also the feed validator then works. Another note, it does not seen to matter to itunes if the tag is there or not, it still gets the file length when it loads the file.

Strange behavior. I am having my dreamweaver doing strange things. It appears it was stripping the bracket. I took a look at podcast.php  by loading it into notepad and the code is correct. So I guess this issue is resolved. I still would like to see a way to include a separate file or template to allow adding additional xml data or greater detail.  At this point I must edit podcast.php after every update so that I can keep my itunes feed correct. Not impossible but just a small nuisance. I will explore a fix to this request.

Her is the folowing itune and other tags that I add or modifiy:

<Title> – The website name does not necessary match what I want for the feed title, itunes recommends using something that people can identifiy with

<Copyright> I like to tie this to our site privacy policy

<itunes:author> I like filling this out because it identifies the overall feed as the churches, the one in the loop works nice as is since it gets the identified preacher

I haven't added this one but been thinking about it:

<itunes:catagory>itunes allows three catagory listings to help with searching, I thought about adding Christianity catagory to fine tune the search

<itunes:summary>This tag help identify the feed to get folks to read it once they found it in the search

I add this same information to the <description> tag

under <itunes:owner> I fill in <itunes:name> and <itunes:email>

<itunes:image> not necessary but a nice feature to put into the podcast, might even be nice feature to allow linking this image as the itunes feed link in the sermon page (icon recognition)

<itunes:keywords> this helps searching and finding the podcast in itunes up to twelve words, this may be a good use of one of the sermon fields – tags (although it would need to limit to keep compatable)

I haven't verified this but apple document states that the following characters need treatment to keep the xml valid: & < > ' " , I know you treat for the & character, but not sure if the others give some folks fits since I do not test all feeds

All this data I got from http://www.apple.com/itunes/wh…..specs.html