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I listen to many podcasts. I'd like to share the best among them with an audience via an RSS feed, but I want that feed to include the original enclosure. The idea is that the audience puts my aggregated feed into their podcatcher, which will see the enclosures and download the podcasts I've handpicked automatically. The podcasts are from various sources, and my solution shouldn't require my hosting the MP3 files (rather, my RSS, which is aggregated, should still point back to the original hosting location for the podcast audio files).
Google Reader's shared tag feeds would be perfect, but they don't include enclosures.
Is there a tool online somewhere that will let me manage and publish a feed like this?
lance
Posted 2010-02-17T20:04:02.987
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Can you explain exactly what you mean by "original enclosure"? – sblair – 2010-02-18T00:43:15.000
The RSS of a podcast typically includes a tag called "enclosure". It contains information about the media file associated with a given podcast episode. When you aggregate podcast RSS feeds with tools like feedrinse.com and (I think) Yahoo Pipes, the "enclosure" tag is not included. So, if you point a podcatcher at that feed, it won't download any files. It seems like it should be possible to include the enclosure tag in a feed created with Yahoo Pipes. I've tried before and don't recall succeeding. That was a while back. Maybe I should try again (maybe someone's already done it?). – lance – 2010-02-18T14:50:36.207
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Ah, perhaps I should have Googled it first... If you use delicious, then you can bookmark a link to the mp3 with a particular tag. It will automatically create a tag feed, with enclosures for the mp3 files. Also, Yahoo Pipes is able to manipulate enclosures (e.g., http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=a5a9d881ddb65e81ce19b6b8504cc599 and http://pipes.yahoo.com/earth2marsh/deliciouspodcast).
– sblair – 2010-02-18T21:26:48.237