Channel 9 Forums - The Sandbox - C9 Podcast Creator http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - The Sandbox - C9 Podcast Creator http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:49:17 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:49:17 GMT Rev9 4 -4 -1 The Sandbox - C9 Podcast Creator A little web application that acts as a filter between your agregator (like iTunes) and C9 rss feeds.

How it works? In order to subscribe to a podcast from iTunes (never tried with something else) via RSS feeds every RSS feed item must contain the enclosure element:

<channel>
...
    <item>
    ...
        <encolosure url="url_to_media_file" type="mime_type" />

(Note that iTunes requires also some other elements from http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd like itunes:author, itunes:subtitle etc. a complete list of specifications can be found here).

Because C9 RSS feeds doesn't contains enclosure element (and other tags for that matter) you can't subscribe to them from iTunes or something else. But... in the feed description we have the links to media files (as we have "Watch", "Dowload', "WMA" and "MP3") so it's enought just to do a regex on feed description and extract desired links and then create a new RSS feed which contains enclosure element (with url extracted from description) and needed elements. Sample Image.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/261200-C9-Podcast-Creator/261200#261200 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:57:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/261200-C9-Podcast-Creator/261200#261200 Ion Todirel 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS The Sandbox - C9 Podcast Creator sorry there was a little bug in extension mapping, already fixed...

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/261200-C9-Podcast-Creator/71df2b935fec490db4039dea01092b6e#71df2b935fec490db4039dea01092b6e Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:14:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/261200-C9-Podcast-Creator/71df2b935fec490db4039dea01092b6e#71df2b935fec490db4039dea01092b6e Ion Todirel 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS The Sandbox - C9 Podcast Creator So you can filter the podcasts published on Channel 9 by certain criterias? Or what does it exactly do?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/261200-C9-Podcast-Creator/7b860c378371495e93e09dea01092b97#7b860c378371495e93e09dea01092b97 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:56:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/261200-C9-Podcast-Creator/7b860c378371495e93e09dea01092b97#7b860c378371495e93e09dea01092b97 Christian Liensberger 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS The Sandbox - C9 Podcast Creator
littleguru wrote:
So you can filter the podcasts published on Channel 9 by certain criterias? Or what does it exactly do?


it creates podcasts, for example we have this rss feed for "C9 Show":  http://channel9.msdn.com/rss.aspx?ShowID=34 we can't subscribe to it from iTunes (or something else) because it's just a rss feed (also with bugs, duplicate feed items) and it also doesn't contain the enclosure element on each item, and other elements. So what it does is just find in description the links to media files and adds enclosure element...

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/261200-C9-Podcast-Creator/b211b6559b2e400292aa9dea01092bc3#b211b6559b2e400292aa9dea01092bc3 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:40:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Sandbox/261200-C9-Podcast-Creator/b211b6559b2e400292aa9dea01092bc3#b211b6559b2e400292aa9dea01092bc3 Ion Todirel 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS