You can ignore Apple's recommendations, but this means your cover art will never look good at high resolutions and your podcast will never be eligible to be featured by Apple. The larger artwork size also ensures that your image will display beautifully on Apple TV connected to a 1080p display (even though this would only display at 1,080 × 1,080 pixels at its largest). In fact, cover art will display at exactly this slightly larger size when a podcast displays on the retina iPad's lock screen in vertical orientation. Oddly, Apple still doesn't recommend 1,536 × 1,536, which is the retina iPad's largest display size for a square. In this and later versions running on a Retina iPad, cover art displays at 1,400 × 1,400 pixels when you have the podcast playing and the iPad vertically oriented. If you host your media somewhere else, enter the download URL into, switch request type to “HEAD,” and look for “Accept-Ranges: bytes.”ġ,400 × 1,400 always seemed like an odd size to me, until Apple updated the Podcasts app for iOS to somewhere around version 1.1. Popular media hosting services LibSyn, Blubrry, and even have supported these requests since the beginning. These types of requests allow an app to request a specific portion of a file, such as bytes 300–600, instead of having to start at the beginning to download to that point. This is possible with byte-range requests. Now we know that the app can stream podcasts over data or wifi from any playback location in the episode. Apple announced this requirement shortly before they launched the Podcasts app for iOS. If you work with a third-party hosting service, please contact them to confirm this functionality is enabled on their servers. Please confirm your hosting servers have this functionality enabled. Podcast streaming playback on iTunes requires all hosting servers to enable Byte Range Requests. I'll mention how you can change your cover art further down. To check whether your podcast cover art's URL supports HTTP HEAD requests, enter the image's URL into, and switch request type to “HEAD.” If it works, then the server supports HTTP HEAD requests. LibSyn and Blubrry support HTTP HEAD requests. That means you can be in the iTunes podcast directory with small artwork, but you just won't have a chance at being featured. The most important takeaway is that Apple won't feature podcasts with smaller cover art. Apple has said that featured podcasts needed cover art at 1,400 × 1,400 since May 18, 2012. The image URL must end in “.jpg”, “.jpeg” or “.png” and the server hosting the image must allow HTTP HEAD requests. To be eligible for featuring on iTunes Store, a podcast must have 1400 x 1400 pixel cover art in JPG or PNG format using RGB color space. ITunes has been completely redesigned and there are new requirements for podcast cover art. I'll explain this for you and tell you how you can change your podcast cover art or add some if you don't already have it. The language is very specific for easily misunderstood. Questions? Posted something that's missing? Ask a mod.Apple recently emailed podcasters to remind them (again) about the requirements for being featured in iTunes. Promotional posts for products and services are prohitted unless pre-approved by the moderators.These are okay in comments, when relevant. Links to deals are okay but do not post affiliate links or your for-profit content as new links.While I understand a pat on the back and a word of encouragement is a good thing, it's extraneous to the purpose of the subreddit. Please no kudos threads where you reach a milestone, thank the academy and your agent or another gratuitous congratulatory verbiage as these look suspiciously like a self-promotional post in an attempt to bypass Rule 3.However, if you're looking for feedback, use the Weekly Episode Threads. Starting a discussion about your podcast is okay when it presents a topic for others to join in. Do not post links to your podcast as new links.Please write descriptive titles and posts when starting new threads.We discuss anything related to podcasting, provide promotion and feedback in our Weekly Episode Threads, and offer advice for podcasters of all skill levels. r/podcasting is a subreddit for people who make podcasts.
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