[kwlug-disc] Podcast, phase 02

[Nick Guenther]

On June 4, 2014 4:39:27 AM EDT, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>http://kwlug.org/podcasts
>
>I am not making the RSS feeds properly. In particular, I am not using
>enclosure tags like the rest of the world (in particular Darcy and
>Bevan from Kwartzlab, who also use archive.org for their hosting)
>manage to do. However, the feed validates and seems to work in
>gpodder. I presume that means it will work everywhere, but feel free
>to prove me wrong. 
>
>Getting enclosures correct means parsing the metadata file from
>archive.org, which is doable but requires downloading and parsing
>files (and somehow not doing so on every page hit if possible). The
>consequence is that the files show up as having zero size, but they
>still download for me okay.
>
>You really don't want to look at the hideous hackery that I engaged in
>to put this together. Podcast feeds are hard in Drupal! The
>views_rss_itunes module helped, but I still needed to come up with
>ugly custom fields, override the theming for those fields (to get the
>embedded player working), and try to squish them together in views. I
>feel bad for the poor sap who has to upgrade this website to Drupal 7. 
>
>I do not have an iTunes account, but it should be possible to
>subscribe this feed to iTunes. First we should ensure a few things: 
>
>- That the podcast actually works in people's podcatchers
>- That somebody actually keeps the podcast updated each month. Most
>  podcasts fail before three episodes have passed, supposedly. 
>- That the metadata fields are "good enough". I am open to improving
>  these.
>- That the podcast quality is "good enough". 
>
>
>Things that are broken: 
>- No enclosure fields
>- The embedded player does not work in all browsers. In my Iceweasel
>  the embedded player wants to download the file, not play it. But it
>  works on other computers.
>- There should not be HTML elements in descriptions and iTunes summary
>  fields, but I do not know how to get Views to strip them
>  appropriately.
>- Podcasts are not linked to their meeting agenda or topic pages (and
>  this will probably never happen automatically).
>- The big icon for iTunes is not exactly 1400x1400 px . 
>
>- Paul 

It's buggy with AntennaPod:
-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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