Podcast

[cheesegrits]

Just in case anyone is interested, I ported forward a couple of tweaks to our RSS feed mechanism from 2.x to 3.x yesterday, which now make it possible to podcast a list feed.

Basically, any file upload element enabled in an RSS feed now adds the "enclosure" tag in the RSS, so it can be read by any podcast client.

So the simplest case of a podcast list is just a field element ("description") and an upload element, with your audio or video file. Oh, and the usual PK element, of course.

Here's a quick Jing video showing that in practise. In this example I added a "title" field as well. Note that iTunes simply concatenates all text fields into a single "description".

NOTE - I haven't as yet added the iTunes specific namespace tags to allow Fabrik list feeds to be added to the iTunes store itself - I'm working on that.

ALSO NOTE - at the moment, I'm only adding the 'enclosure' for MIME types which iTunes recognizes, which are:

.mp3 audio/mpeg
.m4a audio/x-m4a
.mp4 video/mp4
.m4v video/x-m4v
.mov video/quicktime
.pdf application/pdf
.epub document/x-epub

http://screencast.com/t/iB5V6OWlC8Qf

-- hugh

 

[jpoeffel]

update?

Just curious - has there been an update on this post? I am interested in mapping out the other elements for Itunes.