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1. housesibu
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   how do you link to an existing itunes podcast feed???

   I've been podcasting on itunes for over 2 years. I just set up my wordpress blog. First, at http://www.blackmarketfunk.com/blog and I imported my rss2 info from http://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/poor_ragged_rascal_001.xml by uploading it via the wordpress admin panel. It really only imported the podcast episode names and the dates. All the detailed info was missing.

   I'd rather not change my feed location, so I moved all my wordpress files into my /podcasts folder. Then I modified the options table in the database and changed my main wordpress address to http://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts. But my feed does not seem to find or be synced with my /poor_ragged_rascal.xml file.

   Is there any proper way to do this?

   Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

2. buddha trance
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   See if these plugins are delivering what you need.

   Podcasting
   Podpress

   Here is a Google search.

   Hope this helps!

3. housesibu
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   thanks buddah, but podpress won't work with wordpress 2.7 I believe, and I had podcasting installed then upgraded from 2.7 beta to R1 and my podcasting plugin disappeared... on a side note I don't recommend using the automatic update feature when upgrading either... I had to restore my database and upgrade manually.

   I'll try to reinstall the podcasting plugin and see if it reads my xml feed.

4. housesibu
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   nope, didn't work....
   this is the feed podcasting sees...
   http://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/feed/podcast/

   I tried the blubrry powerpess as well and it sees...
   http://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/feed/
   http://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/feed/podcast/

   but not....
   http://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/poor_ragged_rascal.xml

5. buddha trance
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   housesibu,

   see if this codex reference on podcasting helps.

6. housesibu
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I don't really think that's what I'm looking for either....

   ahhhh, if only you could specify a feed url in wordpress and then import each episode to a post, or when you post it would start adding episodes to your already existing xml file....

7. alanft
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   there's no way to replicate a feed at http://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/poor_ragged_rascal_001.xml with WP, so your options are either

   1) redirect that URL to a URL that WP can provide a podcast on. you could do this via apache trickery or PHP trickery

   or

   2) put your xml file back at that position with metdata set in it (itunes:new-feed-url) to redirect your audience's podcasting clients. See http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html#changing

   the second option is risky from an audience retention PoV, but is easier and more supportable and future-proof

8. alanft
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   for importing 2 years worth of old podcasts you could take the XML that almost imports and do a simple text editor search and replace to convert the elements that contain the content to a named element that WOULD import into WP via the current XML import. but it's hard to say how easy that would be without seeing your original XML (or a sample of a couple of items in it)

9. housesibu
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   yes, sorry the link I had was wrong... added an extra zero...
   it's http://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/poor_ragged_rascal_01.xml

   let me know what you think after you view the source code.

   Thanks for your help.

10. alanft
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    Your XML is iTunes namespace info only apart from the title (in each item), so the RSS importer doesn't pick up anything but that title. if you did a search/replace to change the "itunes:summary" nodes to "description" i'm sure you'd get the content of posts importing, which is something.

    sadly the WP RSS importer doesn't import enclosure data - which might make your life easier. Trouble is that the most common podcasting plugin (PodPress) doesn't even use enclosures anyway (last time i looked)

    i wonder if an iTunes XML importer (adapted from the standard WP RSS importer) might not be a bad idea. But as it depends a bit on the plugin you are going to use, it's tricky to get it right for everyone.

11. Dgold
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    That is true, alanft, PodPress plugin does not put your mp3 attachments in the enclosure field.

    PodPress *does* work with the latest WordPress if you disable WP's Post Revisions feature (which you can do manually in your wp-config file with one line of code, or you can use another plugin).

    I'm not really sure if PodPress would otherwise solve your issue. It does create an iTunes compatible feed for ya.

12. housesibu
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    thanks for the idea,, I tried the search and replace to add the description and then re-import, but for some reason it did not import it....I still have only the title of the podcast imported.

    As for podpress. I need the Wp revisions feature, and I don't want to move the location of my feed or change the name because I don't want to have all my subscribers have to re-subscribe to my podcast.

    I appreciate your help, but at this point I think I'm just going to keep the same rss feed and keep doing it the same way... adding podcasts by editing my xml file. However, I'll just use my wordpress blog to post tracklistings and descriptions without actually adding a podcast (mp3) file to the post. I guess I'll just put a link to my itunes rss feed and my location in the itunes store. As well as put a link to my streaming radio player on my main site.

13. alanft
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    "I don't want to move the location of my feed or change the name"

    understandable. you can still redirect browsers with an apache rewrite? i did something similar when i moved from hand-written XML to using WP. in fact i still have the rewrites in my htaccess file i notice - thought pretty sure all these years later, i could drop them. It's a bit like this:

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^podcasts\/old_path_stem.*\.rss$ /new_podcast_category/feed/ [R=301,L]

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