Title: RSS output Folders
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# RSS output Folders

 *  Resolved [buzzworkers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzzworkers/)
 * (@buzzworkers)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-output-folders/)
 * This is more a feature request then anything else :
 * i want to be able to subscribe using RSS to a download folder
    or in fact any
   folder : [http://www.buzzworkers.com/mix/](http://www.buzzworkers.com/mix/) would
   it be possible to generate/refresh the RSS feed when new files are being added
   to a given folder ?
 * there would be different possible use of the RSS feed
    direct subscription RSS
   to email newsletter RSS to twitter / other social nets
 * so for example i could have my website to update my twitter account
    each time
   some of my team add a new track to a given folder.. [http://www.buzzworkers.com/tracks/?drawer=mp3*Yasynth](http://www.buzzworkers.com/tracks/?drawer=mp3*Yasynth)
 * in use case, RSS would also help me update my front page using the built-in rebelmouse
   rss to rebelmouse option. [http://www.buzzworkers.com/](http://www.buzzworkers.com/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-away/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-away/)

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 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-output-folders/#post-5311942)
 * That’s a really cool implementation of File Away on your site.
 * I’m not sure how to approach this. Requires research. Let me know if you find
   anything along similar lines elsewhere. So far, searches for RSS feed and server
   directory haven’t been productive.
 *  Thread Starter [buzzworkers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzzworkers/)
 * (@buzzworkers)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-output-folders/#post-5311945)
 * Thanks for the nice comment about File Away on our site 🙂
    we’re quite happy
   with the result too, I have been following several CMS since a decade to experiment
   best ways to implement some ways to discover our sounds and it’s the first time
   we come back to wordpress thanks to YOU !
 * so i did some research on this and there is some nice results :
    check this out
 * [http://www.dircaster.org/](http://www.dircaster.org/)
 * Zapier is doing it, but i want to avoid using external services / [https://zapier.com/zapbook/dropbox/rss/5077/create-a-podcast-rss-feed-from-a-dropbox-directory/](https://zapier.com/zapbook/dropbox/rss/5077/create-a-podcast-rss-feed-from-a-dropbox-directory/)
   here a another experiment : [https://gist.github.com/kelan/1659457](https://gist.github.com/kelan/1659457)
 * seriously i think [http://www.dircaster.org/](http://www.dircaster.org/) should
   be able to do this
    not sure now how it could integrate well with wordpress &
   FileAway but it would be a damn cool addition and i know a lot of podcasters 
   that would love the idea !
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-output-folders/#post-5311948)
 * What it requires is that you add a little script the to ID3 tag of each mp3 file.
   Then it seems all you have to do is drop the DirCaster source scripts into each
   directory you want to monitor. When an mp3 with the script in its ID3 tag is 
   uploaded, DirCaster updates your itunes, whatever. Seems like something you could
   implement without File Away. Just use File Away to upload the source scripts 
   to the directories. 😉
 *  Thread Starter [buzzworkers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzzworkers/)
 * (@buzzworkers)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-output-folders/#post-5311949)
 * Indeed, i’m going to try it out tonight ! seems pretty straight forward to put
   in place. perhaps i’m going to download back my whole sounds folders and verify
   they are correctly tagged, so that my rss feed will be correct from the start.
 *  Thread Starter [buzzworkers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzzworkers/)
 * (@buzzworkers)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-output-folders/#post-5311950)
 * and it will also allow me to auto-tweets uploaded tracks/mix/live, so in the 
   end, i think this “issue” is solved 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-output-folders/#post-5311957)
 * Sounds like a good little program. Hope it does the trick for you!
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-output-folders/#post-5311995)
 * Just so you know, when File Away 3.5 is released, it will come with a complete
   RSS feed generation system for directories you specify. You specify any number
   of base directories, and it will generate RSS feeds for those directories, and
   recursively, for each sub-directory. Each directory and sub-directory will have
   its own feed. Then if you add showrss=”true” to your File Away table shortcode(
   not recursive tables, but any other table mode), it will provide RSS feed links
   for the directory you’re in on the table. If it’s a directory tree or manager
   mode table, it will also provide RSS feed links for each sub-directory, the link
   located beneath the drawer icon. There are numerous global options to control
   the output of your feeds. You can even add channel logo images. All feeds will
   be stored in one feed storage directory that you specify. The xml file names 
   for the feeds will be `_feed_8573495739485732.xml` where the numbers are a micro
   timestamp. This numeric feed id is stored in a file called `fa.feed.id.ini` that
   will exist in each directory that has a feed. That ini file will tell File Away
   which feed to update in your feed storage folder, for that directory. That way,
   you can move directories, or rename directories, without changing the url for
   that specific feed. As long as you don’t delete or alter the `fa.feed.id.ini`
   file in the directory (or change your feed storage directory), the feed url will
   remain constant. You can store a global channel logo image in your feed storage
   directory. It must be named `fa-feed-logo` (with a jpg, png, or gif extension).
   That will be the default channel image for all feeds. If you want to override
   the default image for a specific directory’s feed, upload a different image with
   the same filename (`fa-feed-logo.jpg|png|gif`) to the specific directory, and
   that will be the logo image for that directory only, while all others will pull
   from the default image found in your feed storage directory (e.g., `public_html/
   rss`).
 * You can set the frequency that the feeds will update. You can exclude files from
   feeds based on extension, or specific strings found in the filenames.
 * If you are monitoring a base directory called “files” and `files` has four sub-
   directories, `images, docs, videos, audio`, for instance, and you don’t want 
   a feed generated for the `docs` sub-directory, you can add a new instance of 
   an Excluded Sub-Directory like so: `files/docs`. You can have unlimited base 
   monitored directories (which generate feeds recursively), and unlimited specified
   excluded sub-directories. You don’t have to exclude a directory if it is not 
   a sub-directory of one of the monitored directories you’ve specified.
 * The RSS system will not be active if you have not specified a feed storage directory.
   If the feed storage directory you specify does not exist, File Away will create
   it for you.
 * Feed updates are automated based on the frequency you specify from a dropdown,
   but you can also enable manual feed updates. If this is enabled, all your feeds
   will update every time you click “Save Changes” on the File Away settings page.
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-output-folders/#post-5311998)
 * 3.5 is up, with RSS feeds. Watch the video tutorial.

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