|
I understand that the following is like, basically the stupidest possible question with regards to podcasting. The type of thing you're supposed to work out kind of quick. But, like many things in my life, that's a fundamental aspect of existence I'm lacking in so here goes: First off, here's my podcast. A couple of years ago I switched over from Blogspot to a self-hosted Wordpress combined with Libsyn for file-hosting. There's just one problem: despite approaching 8 years of podcasting (did I just write that?), the .XML file that I point to Feedburner for my RSS still isn't automatically generated. See, Blogspot never had the tools to handle embedded audio files and iTunes formatting and all that, so when I started the show I had to make the goddamned thing semi-manually using a piece of crap program called Tristana Writer that does stupid things like add new items to the bottom of the feed rather than the top and clone everything in the <Image> tags for every new item I add. Meaning my process TO THIS DAY for posting new episodes is "upload MP3 file to hosting, then manually paste the link, content type, and length into my XML file opened within Tristana Writer, then paste the episode title from the blog along with the link to the blog and a shortened writeup that always ends with the same sentence requesting people check the website." Then I save the .xml...and open it in a text editor so I can move my just-created <Item> from the bottom of the file to near the top, deleting everything within the extraneously added <Image> tags along the way. Then I remove the unnecessarily added carriage returns, save it, and then manually FTP it to my hosting. Then I have to manually ping Feedburner, which is pointed to that XML. THEN my episode's posted. This is of course, some TOTAL bullshit. Everybody civilized just makes a blog post and they're done. My problem is the migration aspect. I've got 186 items in my feed right now. Since I'm running my own Wordpress install (that I frequently get Resource Use Exceeded errors when making new posts despite/because of my caching plugin is a separate concern), I do use the Blubrry Powerpress plugin already just so I can have a built-in Flash player on the site. However, I used to use the TSG Podcasting plugin until they took forever to add support for the latest Wordpress. Powerpress seems compatible enough with the old TSG formatting to be able to recognize "this is the MP3 object associated with this post" but unless I manually edit the post the Flash player/MP3 object will be parsed twice per post as seen here. This is because TSG required a [Podcast] tag inserted into posts for the player to display. Powerpress does not. So does my "I forgot everything I learned in college about SQL and never learned anything about Apache" rear end have to manually edit nearly 200 posts to not only remove extraneous tags but also add post summaries in order to get a functional auto-generated XML file? Or is there some way that I can take my existing XML and have Wordpress/Powerpress append to it from this point on when I make new posts? AntAskew posted:Thought I'd drop a link to my Anime and Manga related Podcast, Dynamite in the Brain. NEEDS MORE OF ME IN IT. But seriously, welcome. My first listeners were people who came from ADTRW.
|
| # ? May 17, 2013 22:19 |
|
|
|
| # ? May 19, 2013 12:42 |
|
|
I'm going to start a new podcast that consists of the best of the week of my show, as of length is 2 hours good? or should I try to just get the best content of the week and don't think of length? Out of the amount of content I produce, which is 10 hours, I don't want to miss any good bits.
|
| # ? May 18, 2013 02:01 |
|
