Comments on: iTunes stares blankly at Atom podcasts http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2005/07/12/itunes-stares-blankly-at-atom-podcasts a beautiful blog by daniel sandler Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:03:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Zachary Crockett http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2005/07/12/itunes-stares-blankly-at-atom-podcasts/comment-page-1#comment-231446 Zachary Crockett Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:06:06 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2005/07/12/itunes-stares-blankly-at-atom-podcasts#comment-231446 Actually, iTunes handles Atom podcasts fine, although it is picky about their standards compliance. I edited your atom file to be valid and posted it here: http://zacharycrockett.com/audio/dsandler.atom New feed is valid: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fzacharycrockett.com%2Faudio%2Fdsandler.atom Original feed isn't valid: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdsandler.org%2Foutgoing%2Fpodcast.atom What I changed: - Atom namespace is http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom. - Added an id element to the feed (not just the entry). - Used real uuids in both the feed and the entry. I doubt iTunes cares about this, but it's easy -- on a Mac, just type uuidgen in the Terminal. - Changed the MIME type of the enclosure to audio/mpeg, since audio/mp3 is not a registered MIME type. See http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/ as the official list and http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_mimeref.asp as a more useful list with file extensions. - Changed the summary tag to be the content tag, since summary is optional, while content is required. Actually, iTunes handles Atom podcasts fine, although it is picky about their standards compliance. I edited your atom file to be valid and posted it here:

http://zacharycrockett.com/audio/dsandler.atom

New feed is valid:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fzacharycrockett.com%2Faudio%2Fdsandler.atom

Original feed isn’t valid:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdsandler.org%2Foutgoing%2Fpodcast.atom

What I changed:
- Atom namespace is http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom.
- Added an id element to the feed (not just the entry).
- Used real uuids in both the feed and the entry. I doubt iTunes cares about this, but it’s easy — on a Mac, just type uuidgen in the Terminal.
- Changed the MIME type of the enclosure to audio/mpeg, since audio/mp3 is not a registered MIME type. See http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/ as the official list and http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_mimeref.asp as a more useful list with file extensions.
- Changed the summary tag to be the content tag, since summary is optional, while content is required.

]]> By: Mokka mit Schlag » Atom Podcasts http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2005/07/12/itunes-stares-blankly-at-atom-podcasts/comment-page-1#comment-226363 Mokka mit Schlag » Atom Podcasts Wed, 28 May 2008 23:06:40 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2005/07/12/itunes-stares-blankly-at-atom-podcasts#comment-226363 [...] John LeMasney asked a good question during my RSS and Atom presentation last night to the Princeton Linux Users Group that I didn’t know how to answer. Do Podcast clients, especially iTunes, support Atom Podcasts yet? I know Atom has the necessary elements but do the clients recognize them? Personally I don’t really listen to podcasts because I simply prefer reading and writing to speaking and listening, so I’m not up on all the latest developments in this space. Dan Sandler claims it doesn’t. He seems to be right. We need to convince Apple to fix this. [...] [...] John LeMasney asked a good question during my RSS and Atom presentation last night to the Princeton Linux Users Group that I didn’t know how to answer. Do Podcast clients, especially iTunes, support Atom Podcasts yet? I know Atom has the necessary elements but do the clients recognize them? Personally I don’t really listen to podcasts because I simply prefer reading and writing to speaking and listening, so I’m not up on all the latest developments in this space. Dan Sandler claims it doesn’t. He seems to be right. We need to convince Apple to fix this. [...]

]]> By: dsandler.org ≡ Gruber on Apple’s sudden podcasting frenzy http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2005/07/12/itunes-stares-blankly-at-atom-podcasts/comment-page-1#comment-1864 dsandler.org ≡ Gruber on Apple’s sudden podcasting frenzy Thu, 14 Jul 2005 01:24:48 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2005/07/12/itunes-stares-blankly-at-atom-podcasts#comment-1864 [...] [Also please see my own beef with iTunes’ podcast support: Atom feeds need not apply.] [...] [...] [Also please see my own beef with iTunes’ podcast support: Atom feeds need not apply.] [...]

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