14 May
2009
14 May
'09
11:48 a.m.
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:25 +0100, Dan S wrote:
Apple defined some special "itunes" tags in
addition to the
basic RSS ones, which suit their purposes.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html#rss
It might make sense for you to use standard podcast RSS
Yes. But what is the "podcast" standard ? that from Apple ?
if that of RSS (or Atom), then "podcast" is just a buzz-word, right ?
(thats why i explicit didn't use that word directly)
Yes, i did some small tests on how "your-package-manager search podcast"
tools display standard RSS 2.0 content as "podcast"... yeah, i can see
some "agreements" on what is displayed/interpreted, but miro for example
has an image "container" for every Item, but RSS 2.0 spec doesn't have
anything hinting to be an image Element in Item... (and Atom 1.0
neither) so do they use that Apple spec ?
But yes, i could use RSS 2.0 (but i would use Atom 1.0), if i only want
users to know the title and filename of an Item (consistently in
"podcast" players)...
Hey! why not use just a plain <a href=""></a> list ;P
I'll test that Apple "podcast" spec on FLOSS tools some other day...
but is this really all (interest) there is ?
cheers
Andre