RSS for iTunes

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Anyone had experience of setting up the Matrix RSS asset to play nice with iTunes?


I have a community radio show presented by staff hosted on our website as .mp3 files and displayed via asset listing.



The iTunes guidelines seem to require a bunch of extra xml markup I’m unusure Matrix can produce out of the box - see iTunes Podcast guidelines



Any help to suggest what I can establish in Matrix to play nice with iTunes would be appreciated.



Cheers, Paul.

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Any help to suggest what I can establish in Matrix to play nice with iTunes would be appreciated.

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Yeah, we do this at www.puc.edu to get all of our recordings into iTunes. Here is how to do it.



Create a new Parse File with the following:


    
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>


Then, create an asset listing and add something like the following to your page contents:

    
      
    Pacific Union College
    Pacific Union College Audio Recordings - Week of Prayer, Colloquy, Church, Graduation.
    http://www.puc.edu
    en-us
    Copyright Pacific Union College
    Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:15:00 -0500
    Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:15:00 -0500
    webmaster@puc.edu
    Pacific Union College
    
    Pacific Union College Audio Recordings - Week of Prayer, Colloquy, Church, Graduation.
    Pacific Union College Audio Recordings - Week of Prayer, Colloquy, Church, Graduation.
    
      Pacific Union College
      webmaster@puc.edu
    
    No
    
    
    
    	%asset_listing%


Then, customize your type format and enter something like the following:

    
    
    %asset_attribute_remote_url%
    %asset_attribute_remote_url%
    
    
    Podcasts
    %asset_created_iso8601%
    Pacific Union College
    No
    
    %asset_attribute_length%
    puc, education, graduation, christian, sabbath, church, college


Then, on the WebPaths screen, make sure to give your page name a .xml extension.

We use a custom asset called Remote Audio, so I use different keywords than you might, but I think this will give you an idea of how to do it. :)

Let me know if you have any questions.
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Yeah, we do this at www.puc.edu to get all of our recordings into iTunes. Here is how to do it.

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Wow thanks Nic that's very helpful :slight_smile:



I'll dive in and give it a bash later today.



Will be in touch if I have any further questions.



Best, Paul

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Hi Nic,


How did you get protocol like feed:// or webcal:// working in your Matrix?

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Robin

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How did you get protocol like feed:// or webcal:// working in your Matrix?

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For webcal:// I just use a normal a href link and it works fine. RSS is just liked like normal.



Is that what you mean?

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Thanks Nic, your guess is correct. So did you hard code the absolute URL in href?

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Thanks Nic, your guess is correct. So did you hard code the absolute URL in href?

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For web cal yes, you can see if here, at the top of the page: http://www.puc.edu/news/calendar/this-month

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That's the page I have bookmarked for ages. :lol:
Thanks Nic.

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That's the page I have bookmarked for ages. :lol:

Thanks Nic.

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Glad to help!

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Yeah, we do this at www.puc.edu to get all of our recordings into iTunes. Here is how to do it.

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All sorted, I followed your easy to understand clear steps and the end result works just fine :slight_smile:



Thanks Nic.

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All sorted, I followed your easy to understand clear steps and the end result works just fine :slight_smile:



Thanks Nic.

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Awesome. Glad to help!