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Blip Support
posted this on October 03, 2011 12:48 pm
On September 21st we pushed out an update that improperly redirected some iTunes RSS feeds to http://blip.tv/rss, which at the time contained a list of ALL recently uploaded videos from all accounts.
We've done what we can to restore feeds to their proper location, but despite our best efforts to salvage everything, there are some feeds that will remain incorrect. Apple has provided us with a list of feeds that will need to be manually resubmitted by their owner and we are working through this queue. If you are affected by this issue though, we strongly suggest visiting http://blip.tv/dashboard/distribution/itunes and following the instructions to resubmit to iTunes. This is the fastest and surest way to correct your feed.
We messed up and we're incredibly sorry for this inconvenience. We are taking measures to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Please contact us by opening a support case if you have any further questions or need additional help.
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Apple support sent me an email to check the feed validator and the feed that you have provided has tons of errors: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Fjamal...
I have another account with you guys at GospelMusicians and that feed checks out just fine: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gospelmusicians/id317623564.
Please let me know if you will fix this issue with my feeds from JamalHartwell account or if I have to cancel my account?
@Jamal - Our feeds include several blip-specific tags that cause feed validators to think your feed is invalid. This is unrelated to the issue posted above.
You can verify that your feed works by opening up iTunes, selecting Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu, and entering your feed URL (http://blip.tv/jamalhartwell/rss/itunes/) in the dialog box. If you can successfully subscribe to your podcast and listen to each of the episodes, you can reactivate your podcast by sending an email request to podcasts@apple.com.
I have the same problem as @Jamal. My video podcast works when I subscribe to the link in iTunes. I submitted the link to iTunes for video podcast and they declined. I found out that one of my files (an old test file) was Flash video. I totally removed the file from my Blip account. I resubmitted the podcast link to iTunes. More than 48 hours later iTunes had not replied. I found this Help Desk thread this morning and sent an email to podcasts@apple.com as you suggested. Podcasts@apple.com responded back by sending to the feed validator which @Jamal mentioned.
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Foccwe...
Can you see what's wrong with my feed in the validator? Looks like a Blip.tv problem to me.