{"id":2310,"date":"2011-08-17T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T10:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/podcasting-is-not-itunes\/"},"modified":"2011-08-17T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T10:28:03","slug":"podcasting-is-not-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/podcasting-is-not-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"podcasting is not iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">As an old fogey podcaster I demand a few simple things that big &amp;<br \/>\nsmall podcast outfits miss often.1. Provide an RSS feed of your podcast<br \/>\nMany podcasters tend to provide an iTunes feed only. This used not be<br \/>\na problem the major problem it now is to the experts as there was a<br \/>\nway to to make iTunes tell you what the RSS feed address behind an<br \/>\niTunes feed was by pinging the iTunes feed. Apple blocked this method<br \/>\nin Feb 2011.<br \/>\nPodcasters of the world, an RSS\/XML feed is required by non iTunes<br \/>\nreaders. A real feed is required by iTunes in the firsts place so make<br \/>\nit available to everyone please. Often I have to resort to major<br \/>\ndetective work just to find your real feeds.<\/p>\n<p>2. Provide valid and well formed RSS<br \/>\nToo often I find feeds that are not valid and not well formed. This is<br \/>\nsuch a basic. Hand crafted or machine rolled, your RSS must be valid<br \/>\nand well formed against the namespace. If not valid or well formed<br \/>\nless forgiving readers will just not read you and more forgiving<br \/>\nreaders will misread you.<\/p>\n<p>Validate your own feed regularly <a href=\"http:\/\/feedvalidator.org\/\">http:\/\/feedvalidator.org\/<\/a> fix errors.<\/p>\n<p>3. M4A only feeds.<br \/>\nWhile it is a podcasters right to choose the media codec for the<br \/>\npodcast, M4A will not play with a lot of web based players, consider<br \/>\nalternate MP3 feeds if you are so fixed on having an M4A audio<br \/>\npodcast.<\/p>\n<p>4. Are we there yet?<br \/>\nPodcasters, consider making your feed PUSH enabled. It take minutes to<br \/>\nburn a feed and make it PubSubHubbub aware. This speeds up the<br \/>\ndelivery of your media and reduces wasteful checking on your server<br \/>\nfor updates.<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t come a long way since the hay day of podcasting in 2004.<br \/>\nThe basics then are still the basics now. I am seeing slippage from<br \/>\nprovision of the basics by many a broadcaster &amp; podcaster. Please<br \/>\nstrive to be the best, and remember the RSS. Really Saying Something!<\/p>\n<p>As I finish writing this piece, twitter alerts me that 2 more podcasts<br \/>\nI track are out or in studio. Whatever your schedule, whatever the<br \/>\nfrequency of your episodes keep up the good work, you may not often<br \/>\nget praise from the audience but praise is had won, I will praise the<br \/>\navailable RSS valid &amp; well formed feeds you provide.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for hearing me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an old fogey podcaster I demand a few simple things that big &amp; small podcast outfits miss often.1. Provide an RSS feed of your podcast Many podcasters tend to provide an iTunes feed only. This used not be a problem the major problem it now is to the experts as there was a way&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/podcasting-is-not-itunes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">podcasting is not iTunes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}