View Full Version : Can someone test my Podcast to see if it is working
Boilerblues
04-14-2005, 11:46 PM
I just set up a podcast and I've tried it with iPodder 2.0 but it's not downloading my files. I don't know if it just takes a while for everything to log properly or what.
I was wondering if someone could try it out and let me know if it works or not, and if not maybe let me know what I'm doing wrong. It seems the instructions for how to do it aren't very clear on a lot of things.
This is the link to where people can sign up for the podcast.
http://www.michaelkelsey-fans.com/mp3.html
Twisted_Sinner
04-15-2005, 01:49 AM
I'd be happy to, but your Feedburner badge does not point to your RSS feed. It just points to your blog. If you are going to be podcasting an RSS feed is a must.
Boilerblues
04-15-2005, 08:15 AM
I thought that was what Blogger and Feedburner did. How do I do that? The instructions I've found through this forum and other places I've looked don't do a very good job of explaining that.
Feedburner just creates a dynamic image and feed stats service. They don't actually create the RSS page for you.
If you have PHP and MySQL access on your site, I can help you setup a podcasting blog on your site for you. It dynamically creates an RSS feed for your blog, and allows for enclosures (which is what is needed for podcast feeds).
Shoot me an email if you want more info.
Boilerblues
04-15-2005, 05:17 PM
I was trying to set it up through Blogger, there's a couple of links to instructions here in the forums. One is very confusing and the other doesn't seem to cover all the bases (such as how to create the RSS feed)
Boilerblues
04-15-2005, 06:01 PM
I think it's working now, I'd appreciate it if someone could try it out.
Twisted_Sinner
04-15-2005, 11:48 PM
The page is not rendering correctly for me now. I just get a bunch of text on a white background now.
Boilerblues
04-16-2005, 11:08 AM
How are the links to a podcast supposed to be set up? I've looked around and some of them are linked to an xml file and some are just set to a directory.
Marilynfan
04-23-2005, 02:36 PM
This is what I used and it couldn't be easier to understand
http://www.shadydentist.com/wordpress/software/dircaster
Just follow those instructions and basically you upload that script into a specific folder and just keep adding your podcasts to the same folder and it creates the RSS feed for you.
Melinda
http://marilynmonroe.ca/podcast
You need to link it to an XML file. You can make it look like it's linked to a directory by setting the default page for that directory to the XML file.
IE: http://www.mysite.com/podcast/ is a directory that's default file might be podcast.xml, and it would be the same as going straight to http://www.mysite.com/podcast/podcast.xml.