I can’t see the problem with your client issue. As long as the base RSS feed remains the same. All you do is give feedburner your RSS feed. Your previous listeners won’t be listening via feedburner, but nobody should lose their feed.

All feedburner is doing is creating an alias for your feed, and a way to change your feed… so if your feed is yoursite/feed/rss.xml and you’re using that same feed URL in feedburner. It’s all the same… it’s just that your new subscibers will be taking the feed via feedburner.

The problem will arise – however – if your base RSS feed changes.

Thanks for the question – and I hope this info helps.

Regards,
James

I have a similar but slightly different issue. I set up our podcast feed, but that feed also has all of our blog posts. So I set up a new feed that just has the podcast posts. Now I have two feeds, the whole blog and the podcast. I want our rss subscribers to stay on the blog feed, and I want iTunes to change to the new feed.

I use blogger and feedburner, is there a way to just move the iTunes pointer?

thanks,
-marc

Quick question:

I have a client that wants to change his current podcast feed (from which iTunes is pulling) to a feedburner feed. Here’s the problem. He doesn’t want to disrupt his feed or lose listeners by putting the burden on them to re-subscribe.

I have dealt with this issue for other clients, but none of them cared whether listeners had to re-subscribe.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

Jeff

Thanks for the question – you’re thinking too deep about this problem and there’s no need to delve into the htaccess code. The easiest way to redirect is to use a plugin, try John Godley’s redirection plugin. Then you simply configure the plugin to redirect people who hit your feed, and point them to your feedburner…

So the configuration is old address: e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/feed

To the new address: e.g. feeds.feeburner.com/yoursiteonfeedburner

On bluehost WordPress installations it’s a matter of going to the Plugins tab and clicking add new and typing “redirection” in the search bar. When you find the plugin click install.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
James

My take is that setting up a podcast on a public service like Posterous is great until you want to move it. I can understand why you’re not getting much of a response from them regarding the change of feed, but I’m sure they don’t have the bandwidth to individually support individual requests. They would also probably not risk their service to allow this type of change.

I would always recommend that if you are using any public service to host your podcast, you use a service like Feedburner to manage your RSS feed.

I’m sorry I don’t have a quick and easy answer for you on this.

James

I know I could just re-apply for a new podcast within itunes, but is there another way to change your feed setting if you are unable to send the http://newlocation.com/example.rss tag through the current feed.

I have tried to contact posterous a number of times about this to see if there is a way to slide this code through, but they have failed to get back to me.

This is a great question – now I understand that you have your blogger RSS feed going to iTunes but via Feedburner. This is a brilliant scenario to have because this is exactly what Feedburner is made for.

The good news is you don’t need to follow any of the blog post instructions… just these steps:

Firstly, migrate your blog to the new platform, or manually create your new podcast feed

Next, take the new RSS feed URL and plug that into feedburner as your original feed.

This is how you do it…

Login to feedburner and select your feed. Choose edit details, and the modify your orignal feed. In this field, it should say something like blogger.com….rss.xml, you need to change this to the URL of your new RSS feed.

Once done, ping Feedburner, wait 10 minutes, then ping iTunes.

It will pick up the new feed via Feedburner and you will see the episodes change in iTunes. It may take a little while for iTunes to refresh, but it will eventually pick up your changed feed.

So it’s basically:

Blogger->burned feedburner feed->itunes->hey, hooray magic!->oh no i want to change something->I’m stuck. :(

I originally started my podcast on the same blog as my written blog. I recently had some issues with the feed length that lead to some early episodes being dropped, and so now I’m thinking I just may as well get it on it’s own feed.

I’ve scoured feedburners help section, and Apple’s forum, and still haven’t been able to figure out how to change the feed, if you originally set everything up through Feedburner.

I know I need to add the tag you outline above, but it seems there’s no way for me to even access the XML file and edit this manually.

Do you have any idea how to change the feed that iTunes is using when said feed was originally set up in FeedFurner?