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2004.12.03

Podcasting with Typepad - Feedburner test: result

So it is possible to do Podcasting with a typepad account. Not with the standard Typepad tools so far, unfortunately.
Feedburner is a service that can transform your RSS feed from typepad (and other sources) in several ways but for Podcasting the most important feature is that it can add an enclosure tag.
You tell feedburner to create an enclosure by adding rel="enclosure" to the tag that links to the file you want to enclose. In my test post, this looks as follows:
<a href="http://www.hugoschotman.com/PodCasts/FeedburnerTest-041129.mp3" rel="enclosure">FeedburnerTest-041129.mp3</a>
The result in the Feedburner feed is:
<enclosure url="http://www.hugoschotman.com/PodCasts/FeedburnerTest-041129.mp3" length="189405" type="audio/mpeg" />
It looks like Feedburner figured out the length (size in bytes) of the file and determined that the file type (MIME-type) is audio/mpeg.

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Comments

Exactly the kind of info I was looking for - you are a genius!

Thank you very much.

Man I just can't get this to work. Feedburner says my file is too big and I may not have a feed - it's becoming clear that I need some help.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Art

It seems to work with iPodderX and the feed: http://podcast.hugoschotman.com/index.xml
This URL redirects to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/HugoSchotman./index.xml
Notice the dirty trick to get index.xml at the end (the period after 'HugoSchotman'). You may need to do something similar as iPodderX doesn't seem to recognize that an URL ending with '/' can return RSS.

hm, doesnt seem to get through ippoderX... Or is it working for you?

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