?Feed has problems

Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Rohnert Park, CA

I am using the latest version of FFA for Mac. Just re-downloaded it.

According to FFA my feed validates. However, when I noticed that my feed did not appear on iTunes and it usually does, I ran the validator at:

http://www.feedvalidator.org

and it says: This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing these problems.

line 51, column 8: item should contain a guid element (28 occurrences) [help]

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What is going on? How do I fix it?

My feed is: http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/feed.xml

Thanks,

David

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2393

shrink wrote:

I am using the latest version of FFA for Mac. Just re-downloaded it.

According to FFA my feed validates. However, when I noticed that my feed did not appear on iTunes and it usually does, I ran the validator at:

http://www.feedvalidator.org

and it says: This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing these problems.

line 51, column 8: item should contain a guid element (28 occurrences) [help]

^

What is going on? How do I fix it?

My feed is: http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/feed.xml

Thanks,

David

That is not an error, http://www.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MissingGuid.html . The RSS 2.0 spec says GUID is optional, but recommended. But last week Sam added that to check of RSS feeds. If you want to get rid of this warning you just need to fill in the GUID field with a unique value. I would recommend for you to use the URL to the .mp3 file.

By not showing up in iTunes do you mean the latest episode didn't show up? If so iTMS only only check once per day for updates. The iTunes spec http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html#_Toc526931667 give two different URLs you can use to force the iTMS to read your feed right then.

Jim