You still have a line of whitespace before the actual <?xml ?> tag kicks in.

I have a site that's been working fine for over a year. Then the feeds to itunes just stopped. We made some changes and when we validate the link with itunes it says there is nothing to update, but we have dozens of new files in there.

Here is our site: http://www.northpark.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=103&Itemid=211

and itunes link: http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D267832302

I have not changed any code but in the very beginning to use this other player you referenced since the original was giving us problems, but it worked fine for over a year.

Thanks for using the suite! I ran your feed through Feed Validator (http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northpark.com%2Findex2.php%3Foption%3Dcom_podcast%26feed%3DRSS2.0%26no_html%3D1%26catID%3D117) and it complained about the Author field. Did you change the Author element recently? It's expecting an email address.

Also, I have some patches I'll be releasing in a new version soon that should help with validation.

I took a look at the admin and I appear to have the correct data in the right spots. I have a name in Author, as it indicates in this version, and a separate place to place email address. See screenshot in post below (could it be just a little harder to get a screenshot on this site, geez).

Also, while this is an RSS feed, its a feed that is used for iTunes from the Podcast and worked before so unless iTunes has changed something on their end and this format is no longer supported I am not sure why this would just stop. Also, not sure why a generic ATOM and XML feed validator would be useful, I think these feeds are built specific for iTunes - again unless they have changed to more standards, this worked and now it doesn't.

Again, this has worked just like it is for over a year. We tried to change the folder name where the media was stored on our server to see if iTunes would start picking up the feed again, but it did not and we changed it back.

Thx for all the help

Try changing the author field to an email address. It's quite possible that iTunes changed their format. iTunes likes properly formatted RSS feeds and also adds their own namespaced tags which will pass in the validator.

The changes I'm making to the Podcast Suite are in the 1.5 version and not the 1.1 version. If you have any opportunity to move to Joomla! 1.5, Podcast Suite 1.5 should produce better results.