[thelist] RSS Audio Feed
Stuart Young
syoung at unitec.ac.nz
Wed Aug 17 20:32:29 CDT 2005
having just researched this for our new podcast feed:
http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php/category/the-game/audioblog/
and help page:
http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php/help-how-to/audioblog-rss-feed/
it seems that an audio feed is just a normal RSS feed but with the audio linked to in an <enclosure> tag. Only RSS2 and Atom support them?
So you just need to tweak your CMS that is making RSS files, to make them with <enclosure> tags too. Or you need to start making RSS files. There are plenty of ASP scripts for generating RSS files.
I found it was very easy for us to start "podcasting" - the blog software we use, Wordpress, does it automatically for you. If there is a link to the file in the body of the blog post, then it automatically adds the <enclosure> tags to the feed.
cheers
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>>> Hershel Robinson <hershelr at netvision.net.il> 10/08/2005 22:55:22 >>>
I have a client with a large ASP-based custom-CMS-powered site that now
has audio files. He wants to set up an RSS feed for those audio files.
The site is presently in ASP although there is a consideration (in
deliberations right now) to rebuild the site in PHP, so either one is a
solution at present. I also have seen Windows apps that appear (I
believe) to create such a feed.
I know nothing about RSS, so any suggestions are welcome.
Thank you,
Hershel
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