RSS feed to Podcast?

[elysion]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this proposal has already been discussed, but:

Would it be possible to add links and other metadata to the RSS feed
in order to create a Podcast from the "latest releases". I think this
would be an awesome feature!

-elysion

[William Coates]

Yeh I suppose the podcast format is just an extended rss, should look into it.

You can always use the digital-tunes.net/radio for now though ;)



2009/5/15 elysion <miko....@gmail.com>:

[elysion]

Wow, havent noticed that radio before! Nice feature! Awesome work
guys!

Podcast is a specialized case of RSS basically. It just introduces
fields defined in the itunes namespace (http://www.itunes.com/dtds/
podcast-1.0.dtd). Here are the elements that you have to add:

Under channel:
<atom:link href="http://digital-tunes.net/location_of_the_podcast"
rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />

<itunes:author>contact email of digital-tunes</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary></itunes:summary>

<itunes:owner>
<itunes:name></itunes:name>
<itunes:email></itunes:email>
</itunes:owner>

<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>

<itunes:image href="http://digital-tunes.net/somecoolpic.png" />
<itunes:category text="Music" />

Also you might want to add these fields too:
<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
<webMaster>con...@digital-tunes.net (Digital Tunes)</webMaster>
<copyright>Digital Tunes 2009. All rights reserved.</copyright>
<language>en-us</language>
<category>DJ/Music/Podcasts</category>

Items:
<enclosure url="http://digital-tunes.net/location_of_audio.mp3"
length="in_kb" type="audio/mpeg" />
<itunes:duration>hh:mm:ss</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>genre names, artist name, label name, etc.</
itunes:keywords>

Maybe also:
<author>con...@digital-tunes.ne (Digital Tunes)</author>

Note that you have to do items per track, not release.

On 15 touko, 17:12, William Coates <william.coa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeh I suppose the podcast format is just an extended rss, should look into it.
>
> You can always use the digital-tunes.net/radio for now though ;)
>

> 2009/5/15 elysion <miko.kii...@gmail.com>:

[elysion]

Oh, the length is in bytes, not in kb. Also note:

I'm not an expert in Podcasts, so you might want to check Apples site:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html
Also this might help to get started: http://www.tdscripts.com/webmaster_utilities/podcast-generator.php