Without question, the most annoying part of this project so far has been dealing with iTunes. I wrote the rss feed for insectapod cast, used feed validator to check my work, and submitted it to iTunes. At first I thought things were great, because I could download the podcast and subscribe to it successfully. But then the issue of a logo came up.

logoITunes features podcast, which would be great because that’s how you gain listeners (although the itunes community at large might be a broad demographic for InsectaPod Cast). But not having a decent logo is one way to ruin the already remote chances of InsectaPod Cast being featured. So I made a logo and updated the feed to include. Two days later, iTunes still hasn’t updated the logo. Itunes is supposed to check the feed for changes once every 24 hours. So it should have happened twice by now. Plus I pinged them twice to check it immediately. Nothing’s changed, and the default iTunes logo is still the one associated with InsectaPod Cast. Which is annoying.

I’ve done some checking around and it looks like complaints with iTunes are pretty common in the podcasting community. It seems to be viewed by many as villian too powerful to be ignored. I’m certainly not endeared to Steve Jobs’s beast at this point.