[vicsireland] Re: Building a podcast
- From: "Stuart Lawler" <stuart.lawler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:21:19 -0000
Hi Robbie and Darragh,
Sorry, I'm very far behind with my mails on this list so apologies for what
is now quite a late response.
Robbie, the best way I have found to do a podcast and streaming audio is as
follows.
1. Create your master file, in this case, the entire TalkAround magazine.
2. Convert it to an mp3 file of no more than 96KBPS, even less if you can
get away with it!
3. Upload this file as your podcast file and make the appropriate settings
in the xml file so that it points to it.
4. Now, split your master file into your tracks, either using regions in
Sound Forge, or else by hand if you prefer. Convert these files into 48KBPS
wma files and upload them, creating a playlist file to manage them.
I do this for InfoVics and it seems to work well, or at least, nobody has
told me that it doesn't!
Stuart.
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darragh
Sent: 13 February 2007 15:13
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Building a podcast
Well, here's an idea for you.
I'm not sure if it would work. i.e, I don't know if the podcasting file
format standard supports this but one possibility is to point each item to a
playlist instead of a file.
For adding a new issue, create a form that does the following.
Asks for the track names.
Asks for the issue name.
Asks for the description and the heading text.
gathers the file names into a playlist titled the issue name.
Your therefor only pointing at this one playlist. That's what your already
doing but I've a feeling your doing this by hand. It shouldn't be that
difficult to write up a small function to do this using asp.net but you'll
need to be able to recompile your DLL with the changes or you'll have to
create a new dll and specify this in your .aspx pages.
OK, when your podcast is automatically generating, just get it to point to
these playlist files. I'm not entirely sure if a podcatcher like Itunes
will allow you to do this but I have a feeling it will.
I use playlists for streaming audio and I use the one playlist file for
everything. I just generate it using some asp when the file is requested.
That means that if someone goes to the playlist directly they'll get the
last file that was requested by someone using the website because it's a
non-executable file but that's not a problem because the site is done in
such a way that unlike a podcast people won't be pulling the playlist down
on it's own. they'll be going through the links to listen to the audio post.
Your podcast on the talk around website is a .aspx file so it's easy enough
to have it automatically generated.
Any clearor?
-------- Original Message --------
> From: "Sandberg, Robert" <robert.sandberg@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: 13 February 2007 14:59
> To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Building a podcast
>
> Hi Daragh!
> The problem I have is this. Formerly each TalkAround edition
> consisted of 1 file. Since I've made it possible for online listeners
> to skip tracks like with a CD, that is no longer the case. An edition
> now consists of several files, but the podcast only points to a single
file.
> I need to know how I can get the podcatcher to download all files and
> not to stop after the first one. Do I just enter file name after file
> name delimited by a space or do I build individual enclosures for each
> file?
>
> Cheers,
> Robbie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darragh
> Sent: Dienstag, 13. Februar 2007 14:32
> To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Building a podcast
>
> Hay Robbie, how's it going.
>
> If your talking about the talkaround podcast, it looks to me like the
> only thing missing is the content type decleration. e.g:
> Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
>
> You'd put that inside the server tags. e.g. <% %>
>
> Shout if you need clarification.
>
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> > From: "Sandberg, Robert" <robert.sandberg@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: 13 February 2007 11:06
> > To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [vicsireland] Building a podcast
> >
> > Hi folks!
> > Can anyone tell me if and how it is possible to stream multiple
> > files
> in
> > one podcast?
> > Can the files be contained in a single enclosure or are individual
> > enclosures required for each file? In either case, how are they
> > delimited? And do I need to declare an order or are they streamed in
> the
> > order they're placed in?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Robbie
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