Comments on: How to make a podcast http://macintoshhowto.com/internet/how-to-make-a-podcast.html ...the art of macintosh maintenance... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:59:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill Elliott http://macintoshhowto.com/internet/how-to-make-a-podcast.html/comment-page-1#comment-39856 Bill Elliott Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:43:36 +0000 http://howto.dubbo.org/itunes/how-to-make-a-podcast.html#comment-39856 Hi Wayne, RSS file that points to the mp3 file it is so nice. Very Nice and Knowledgeable Post. Thank you so much !!! Hi Wayne,
RSS file that points to the mp3 file it is so nice.
Very Nice and Knowledgeable Post.
Thank you so much !!!

]]> By: cejuhepecoyurocn http://macintoshhowto.com/internet/how-to-make-a-podcast.html/comment-page-1#comment-7450 cejuhepecoyurocn Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:47:30 +0000 http://howto.dubbo.org/itunes/how-to-make-a-podcast.html#comment-7450 <strong>cejuhepecoyurocn...</strong> nice post... cejuhepecoyurocn…

nice post…

]]> By: wayne http://macintoshhowto.com/internet/how-to-make-a-podcast.html/comment-page-1#comment-2874 wayne Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:10:53 +0000 http://howto.dubbo.org/itunes/how-to-make-a-podcast.html#comment-2874 I checked out the ABC podcasts, they are not a good model, they have a few problems! Here's an example of a well done podcast: http://theresurgence.com/podcast I checked out the ABC podcasts, they are not a good model, they have a few problems!

Here’s an example of a well done podcast:

http://theresurgence.com/podcast

]]> By: Colin http://macintoshhowto.com/internet/how-to-make-a-podcast.html/comment-page-1#comment-13 Colin Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:37:38 +0000 http://howto.dubbo.org/itunes/how-to-make-a-podcast.html#comment-13 Thanks Wayne. The "rss-writer" program looks quite good. When I used the program it dealt with the standard fields quite well. One great clue it gave me is that line breaks can be placed in the description, so that perhaps an outline can be put into the Description so that it can come up in ITunes like it does in a web browser. I wonder? Perhaps I will try it and see. I wrote the rss manually (witha bit of help from Dreamweaver), and there were a couple of traps that occurred writing it manually: 1. Encoding must be utf-8, or else various errors can occur. (I used a different encoding when I started, to my peril). "rss writer" uses the correct encoding. 2. The tags used in "rss writer" uses none of the ITunes codes that ITunes refer to on their reference websites (eg. http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html). If you try to put ITunes tags in the RSS feed will not validate. To get arround this change the initial “rss” tag to “rss xmlns:itunes=”http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd” version=”2.0″ to allow for ITunes tags, then ITunes tags can be used, allowing for a greater variety of information to be given for the use of ITunes specifically. The feed should still validate with the ITunes tags included. Your Step 4 is really a convenience thing. If you look at the ABC podcasts, they do not refer people to ITunes, but have a link that people can copy into any equivalent program. (I tried Ipodder before I checked it with ITunes). I tunes users would paste the address into Advanced --> Subscribe to podcasts. Thanks Wayne. The “rss-writer” program looks quite good.
When I used the program it dealt with the standard fields quite well.
One great clue it gave me is that line breaks can be placed in the description, so that perhaps an outline can be put into the Description so that it can come up in ITunes like it does in a web browser. I wonder? Perhaps I will try it and see.
I wrote the rss manually (witha bit of help from Dreamweaver), and there were a couple of traps that occurred writing it manually:
1. Encoding must be utf-8, or else various errors can occur. (I used a different encoding when I started, to my peril). “rss writer” uses the correct encoding.
2. The tags used in “rss writer” uses none of the ITunes codes that ITunes refer to on their reference websites (eg. http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html). If you try to put ITunes tags in the RSS feed will not validate. To get arround this change the initial “rss” tag to “rss xmlns:itunes=”http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd” version=”2.0″ to allow for ITunes tags, then ITunes tags can be used, allowing for a greater variety of information to be given for the use of ITunes specifically. The feed should still validate with the ITunes tags included.

Your Step 4 is really a convenience thing. If you look at the ABC podcasts, they do not refer people to ITunes, but have a link that people can copy into any equivalent program. (I tried Ipodder before I checked it with ITunes).
I tunes users would paste the address into Advanced –> Subscribe to podcasts.

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