Yesterday on the Podcast, I talked about an email I received from iTunes. The story is an old podcast I ran up until last year was still up on their site. I took everything down to make it go away and the listing stayed up on the site. I continued to get 404 errors (page missing) from my site error page, so I put the XML back up.
Finally on Monday I recieved the take down notice. It was really surprising since iTunes never really cleaned up the mess before. I had a few people ask me to post the letter, so here it is:
Your podcast has been removed from the iTunes Store because no new episodes have been added in the past several months.
Name: Independent Music Podcast
Feed URL: http://www….xml
If you feel that the material in the podcast remains relevant to iTunes users, please feel free to resubmit the podcast here:
https://phobos…..
For more information on podcasts on iTunes, please see the technical spec at http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html.
Sincerely,
The iTunes Store Team
Do you use iTunes for Podcasts?
- I use iTunes (64.0%, 9 Votes)
- I use another service to download Podcasts (21.0%, 3 Votes)
- I haven't gotten into podcasts yet (14.0%, 2 Votes)
- I use Zune (0.0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 14
Loading ...If this is the case, we might be seeing a cleanup effort on Apples part. Let’s hope so - This is a great resource and if maintained can be a valuable tool. It also promotes iTunes by the vast amount of free content in an easy-to-use format.
Of course, time will tell. After all, this might just be a one-time thing. Maybe it wasn’t even initiated by Apple - enough people reported the broken xml and Apple finally responded. If that is the case, it’s time for an email campaign….
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