iTunes stares blankly at Atom podcasts
July 12th, 2005
I was disappointed to discover that while it has no problem interpreting podcasts distributed as RSS 2.0 with <enclosure> tags, iTunes completely ignores Atom feeds with <link rel="enclosure"> elements. In fact, it’s pretty darned insensitive when it comes to parsing feeds in general. (Boo-urns, as Chris would say.)
See for yourself with my simple demonstration podcasts (don’t get used to it; this is the only podcast I’ll ever do):