• When you create a new podcast episode, you should add a new <item> tag to your feed. The order in which episodes appear is based on the <pubDate> tag for each item, with the most recent episodes appearing at the top of the list. You can override the <pubDate> tag using the <itunes:order> tag. After you add a new episode to your feed, it can take up to 24 hours for the updates to appear on the iTunes Store.

Glossary

The glossary defines terms you encounter as you use Podcasts Connect help.

Term

Definition

administrator

A user who has administrative authority for networks, servers, databases, or other information technology assets.

App Store

A part of the iTunes Store, where you can download apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV.

Apple ID

A unique user name that allows you to sign in and access Podcasts Connect. All access is integrated with an Apple ID. If you do not have an Apple ID, see My Apple ID to create a new Apple ID.

If you have an existing account at Apple you can use the same account information. If you’ve purchased items from the Apple Online Store, bought an iPhoto book, or have an iCloud account, then you have an Apple ID. For more information, see Sign in to the iTunes Store, Mac App Store, and iBooks Store on your Mac at https://support.apple.com/kb/ht2589.

artist

See provider.

category page

A page in the iTunes Store that displays groupings of podcasts associated with a particular predefined category. You can assign predefined categories to your podcasts, allowing your content to be displayed within category pages and therefore providing users a subject-based navigation method for discovering your content.

channel

A part of an RSS document. See also RSS feed.

clean

A label used to identify a podcast that does not contain explicit content. See also explicit.

dashboard

The Podcasts Connect home page. The dashboard appears when you sign in to Podcasts Connect with one or more previously submitted podcasts, when you successfully submit a podcast to the iTunes Store, and when you click My Podcasts.

download

To transfer files from one computer or system to another; for example, you can download podcasts from the iTunes Store to your iPad.

episode

Each individual, downloadable audio, video, PDF, or ePub file used within a podcast page. Podcasts Connect displays episodes in an episode list within a page.

ePub file

An electronic publication file (ePub). A digital version of a printed publication, created according to the ePub format. The ePub format is a free, open eBook standard developed and maintained by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), a nonprofit standards organization.

explicit

A label issued by media producers that alerts consumers to content that might be inappropriate for children. See also clean.

globally unique identifier (GUID)

A unique, case sensitive, reference number for each item in a collection. A GUID can be the source URL, the RSS feed title, a serial number, or any other unique number. For example, <guid>https://cupertinouniversity.edu-dz/collection1.mp3</guid>. GUIDs only need to be unique within each RSS feed.

GUID

See globally unique identifier (GUID).

iOS software

The mobile operating system software used by iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

iTunes ID

A canonical identifier for a podcast in the iTunes Store. In the iTunes Store, the last set of numbers in a podcast page URL link.

iTunes Store

An online store, accessible through iTunes, where you can purchase books, music and videos, rent movies, subscribe to free podcasts, and more. The content you and others see in the iTunes Store can vary by the country or region specified in iTunes by each individual user as their default country.

metadata

Supplemental information about a media file type. For example, an audio file contains audio information. The name of the person that created the file, the length of the file, the title of the file, description, and so on, are all examples of metadata a file might contain.

Mirror URL

A permanent link to your RSS feed URL. Users can manually subscribe to your podcast using the Mirror URL and Podcasts and iTunes redirect them to your RSS Feed URL; allowing you to change your RSS Feed URL without losing subscribers.

podcast

A radio- or TV-style show you can download from the Internet for free from the iTunes Store, as well as various websites. Some podcasts are individual episodes; some are series.

The podcast feed is the URL to an RSS (rich site summary) in XML format. RSS is a technology for announcing updates to a website, and XML is a format for creating content on the Internet.

podcast page

A page in the iTunes Store that the public uses to access episodes (for example, audio items and video items) available for download. You can request Apple create and populate a podcast page for you using the information in the RSS feeds hosted on your servers. The RSS feed is the single source of data for your podcast page.

provider

An individual, public media organization, network, or other cultural institution creating, designing, managing, and providing content for the iTunes Store.

provider page

A page in the iTunes Store that the public uses to access your podcasts and episodes.

RSS feed

A standardized web feed format used to publish frequently updated content, such as collections or podcasts.