Get your music on podtunes

A crawler runs on a schedule and pulls feeds from PodcastIndex where the Podcasting 2.0 <podcast:medium> tag is set to music. For every feed we ingest, we extract:

• Artist name and identity (from itunes:author + owner email)
• Release title, artwork, publish date, and track list
• Featured / guest artists from <podcast:person> tags
• Genre hints from <itunes:keywords>
• Artist photo from a feed-level podcast:person image

We never download or re-host your audio. Every play button streams the enclosure URL exactly as it appears in your feed.

The more your feed follows the Podcasting 2.0 spec, the better your profile on podtunes — and on every other Podcasting 2.0 app. Here's what has the biggest visible impact:

Add a feed-level <podcast:person> tag for yourself with an img attribute. We use this as the circular artist portrait. Without it, we fall back to your most recent cover art.

<podcast:person
  role="artist"
  href="https://your-site.example"
  img="https://your-site.example/press/portrait.jpg">
  Your Artist Name
</podcast:person>

Add a <podcast:person> tag inside every <item> where someone else performs. If that person also has a feed on podtunes, we automatically link the track back to their profile and it shows up in their Also appears on section.

<item>
  <title>Der Fetzer (feat. Christian Leuenberg)</title>
  ...
  <podcast:person
    role="guest"
    href="mailto:owner@christian-leuenberg.example">
    Christian Leuenberg
  </podcast:person>
</item>

Matching works best when the href points at the guest's own site or an email that matches their feed's owner email.

We read <itunes:keywords> and normalise common terms into a shared genre vocabulary (Rock, Electronic, Hip-Hop, Ambient, Jazz, Metal, Folk, Classical, and more). Genres power the Music browser and show up as tags on your artist and release pages.

<itunes:keywords>rock, indie rock, alternative</itunes:keywords>

Comma-separated, lower-case, specific. We ignore your show description on purpose — keywords are the reliable signal.

If your feed uses <podcast:value> splits and you list featured artists as recipients, those splits can also be used to detect collaborations and link back to their profile.

Publish your feed with <podcast:medium>music</podcast:medium> and submit it to PodcastIndex.org. Once it's indexed, our next scheduled crawl will pick it up. If you've already updated your feed and want us to re-scan sooner, get in touch.

podtunes is built by and for the Podcasting 2.0 music community. If a tag you care about isn't surfaced yet, tell us — the goal is that a well-formed feed is all you need.