podcast? How to podcasting from my blog in WP

what is this ipodcasting tracker…see that’s the confusing thing. I thought wordpress had podcasting support…meaning you don’t need anything extra…

if you go to my page…you’ll see on the top post (at the bottom of the post) the link to my mp3. OK. then on the sidebar you see at the bottom a link to my rss2 podcast feed.

is that it? it seems i’m missing something.

also, I still would like to know if you could have your podcasts as a separate entity from posts. So that I can blog normally and if i choose to do a pod cast, say in my sidebar, it’s separate. ya know?

thanks guys..one day i’ll get this thing. blah!

The ipodcasting tracker is something like ipodder – used to subscribe to podcasts. BTW I just managed to get your podcast ok. Via ipodder and straight into itunes. Don’t think your are missing anything ??

well thanks ian, much appreciated for testing that for me! now, if i could only get podcasts separate from posts I think i’m on my way! this will be a great thing for my site, I just know it.

Just make sure that the category of the podcasts is different than anything else, like ‘podcasts’. Then select that category when you create a podcast post. The feed URL would be https://www.yoursite.tld/wp-rss2.php?category_name=podcasts

yeah i know what you mean dave, but to clarify i mean, if i could get podcasts separated from blog posts so that they don’t appear as my blog posts do . But rather I could call them up on a separate page or sidebar.

I’m workin on it but at the moment it’s tedious. It’s nice to have built in support but i’m having trouble modifying it for my needs. thanks guys, hope i’m not hijacking the thread too much. ??

Hello guys,

I publish for two months now a podcast using WP 1.5 and its works perfectly

WP is even able to detect automagically enclosures in the post text and ad alone the enclosure field without requiering any manual setting .

If it doesn’t, just ad it manually

When it comes to the problems with iPodder, control that your RSS feed is valid (I don’t have the url handy but they are RSS validators around), iPodder is VERY sensible to little errors other software doesn’t bother.

Luc (https://audioblog.fr)

Hi,

Like lstelie, I’m podcasting quite automatically by just adding the link to the mp3 file in the post. My podcast: https://absm-log.info/mp3blog.php
But sometimes, for specific url like mp3 at https://archive.org the enclosure isn’t detected in the feed.
I just don’t undertsand why it works for quite all url except those at archive.org (exemple of link: https://www.archive.org/download/pls006/pls006-02-Symphonic_Stereo-Get_Away.mp3 ).

Adding an “enclosure” custom field solve the problem but don’t tell me why it isn’t detected automatically.

Hi all,

I’ve done some testing and this is what I’ve discovered.

1. It does seem to be the case that when a link points to something on archive.org WP won’t include it in the rss feed as an enclosure unless the enclosure is expressly added.
2. When I do add an explicit enclosure with a URI to a file on archive.org it does add the enclosure but only the URL portion of the enclosure. It does not seem to grab the specific file size or type.

With the advent of ourmedia.org I’m gonna guess that we are going to see a lot more data hosted on archive.org (ourmedia partner).

While I’m at it, here’s the format and behavior I’d like to see.

• use the rel= attribute in the <a> tag for enclosures. It would look something like <a href="example.org/sample.mp3" rel="enclosure">sample.mp3</a>.
• WP could then look for tags marked specifically as enclosures.
• WP checks the filetype and size per the URL provide and spits out a proper enclosure tag.

This is the format that they use at feedburner. Oh, and though I’ve not seen anyone do it, by my reading of the rss2.0 specs it should be possible to include multiple enclosures in a single rss item. That would be cool as well.

I’m going to amend part of my previous post. When linking to files hosted on archive.org I actually see two different behaviors.

Explicit enclosure keys of the form:

[audio src="https://www.archive.org/download/csr049/csr049_wcwc_01-nick-chapman_take-me-now.mp3" /]

do not get their information updated with file size and type. However enclosure keys of the form:

[audio src="https://audio32.archive.org/3/audio/csr049/csr049_wcwc_01-nick-chapman_take-me-now.mp3" /]

do get updated with file size and type.

Here’s my guess, the first URL is what the folks at archive.org tell folks to use. The second URL is what you are redirected to but I’m also going to guess that the folks at archive.org reserve the right to change things behind the scenes so that the second URL isn’t likely to work consistently over time. I’m going to guess that WP doesn’t know what to do with that redirect and so can’t look up the data for the file.

Oh, neither form, when added to the post as a normal link, gets automagically transformed into an enclosure.

And just for giggles I tried adding two enclosure keys and that does work.

A followup question re:
CODEX https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Podcasting:

It says:

“You need to make your RSS2 feed available – put a link to wp-rss2.php somewhere on your page: https://example.com/wordpress/wp-rss2.php”

1. Does this need to be a literal page named “we-rss2.php”?
In my post I entered:
“Podcast feed:
https://ayurvedahc.com/RadioAyS/Sanjoy/sadhana.xml”

it doesna€?t do anything (i.e. there is no link added).
see the line looks just like the rest of the text: https://ayurvedahc.com/shakti/?p=2

In my trackback I added both rss feed page (in my case I use .xml as it was easily validated) and mp3 pages.
1. Are both necessary,
2. Is this address the same issue described in codex; or does it only relate to ping?

(otherwise all seems successful; ipodder finds my xml page and loads it into itunes.)

I’ve tried to set up a podcast on my site as well (https://www.biglittleg.com/blog). Looking at the rss feed, it seems to have the right enclosure tags, length and file type. I’m not sure why it won’t show up as a podcast feed, though. The site as a whole appears in regular rss feed, but the podcast doesn’t seem to get picked up by ipodder.org. When I attempt to validate the xml, I’m getting all sorts of errors, so this may be the root of the problem. I’m using a custom template, which I’ve modified slightly.

Any hints much appreciated.

I’ve had no problems getting the feeds to be recognized in general (though I’m using a feedburner feed so that I can take advantage of their stats). My issue is with the enclosures.

When I create my post I put my enclosure tag with all the appropriate components into the post. Unfortunately, then WP adds two more enclosures that I can’t delete. The problem is that when I look at my listing at PodcastAlley.com it shows the file size as HUGE and it shows three links in a row. The other issue is that the posts don’t get seen at iPodder.org or other places as being in the most recent podcasts – they just aren’t seen correctly.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Best,
Phillip

Guymauve – I was able to subscribe to your feed through iPodder using this URL:

https://www.biglittleg.com/blog/wp-rss2.php

Found all 3 podcasts

macphilly,

i found all your recent podcasts w/ ipodder – saw no duplicates there – used this URL:

https://macphilly.com/wordpress/wp-rss2.php

speaking of which, the key for *me* to finally getting *my* podcasts working was using the actual word “enclosure” as the name of the key and the full URL of my MP3 file as the value. And it shows up in iPodder!

https://thedixons.net/damnablog/wp-rss2.php?category_name=damnacasts