No conspiracy theories needed here, the direction is clear. I submitted Eclectic Mix over two months ago and am still waiting to be listed. There are no concerns over copyright issues, as the beginning of every show begins with a statement that the feed is covered by the Creative Commons license.

I have tried everything I know to contact a human at Apple, but that appears to be a rather silly exercise. The only positive was that someone passed to me an email address where I finally received a response. Of course, the response was simply a form letter telling me what the error message I received meant and how it could be corrected (I never received an error message and never mentioned any such thing).

I can only shake my head at a company that impressed me greatly during the Super Bowl in 1984 when they offered one of the most famous commercials – fighting against Big Brother. Alas, Steve Jobs is the new Big Brother.

Cheers -

george

While iTunes may not be the best podcatcher, it is the most easily accessible one for non-techy people who jsut want to grab a few shows. It’s not a big hit on audience numbers (looking at other shows) but it’s still a nice percentage – it galls me I have no idea how many are being downloaded from their cache, but that’s another post I suspect.

If ITMS are worried about the RIAA and that lot ganging up onthem, why not a podcaster making racist comments on their talk show? Or promoting dubious sexual practices. There are rules covering all of these but copyright is the easiest as it is already defined, and if that’s the case, there’s no way TPN Rock breaks copyright. Or do I need to sign up somewhere else to “prove” this?

Thanks for the Movie show thoughts – when my head is back in that place after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe mammoth session, I’ll be back.

I don’t logically see a conspiracy between the two parties (but then get me a few drinks late at night and I might be different) but if that’s the case, my only other thought is that Apple’s ITMS staff are incompetent ain their intial population, can;t read their emails, or have been told not to add certain podcasts. If none of my casts were going in, I’d agree with the idea of faulty tags, but as I said, the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast went in straight away with no fuss after a nudge by email.

Now having said that I ended up giving up on Itunes aftr using it as my podcatcher for 2-3 weeks. I was originaly using Ipodder lemon on a windows machine but now that I have a mac Mini I am using IpodderX and it is fantastic and so much better than Itunes for podcatching.

I can understand why people want to be listed in Itunes as it probably the simplest method for “non-techie” people to access shows but as a podcatcher it isn’t all that great in itself.

I hope Itunes sorts this out but I wouldn’t be surprised if the RIAA has something to do with it. I would hate to think Adam Curry has made an arrangement with Apple to only have podshow podcasts on Itunes as that in my belief goes against what podcasting is all about.

Love your shows Ewan and keep up the good work.

As far as I know there’s a method to use on itunes that checks your feed to see whether it’s properly itunes compatible.

That being said, with the news that the “top podcasts” can get their status in the “top 100″ by the number of clicks on the subscribe button, who puts any stock in itunes anymore?