I'm a little confused about the best way to set up my iTunes/RSS feed for my podcast.
I'm using the Audio module.
My question is should I use the RSS feed selector and let Feedburner take care of the iTunes tags or should I use the iTunes Feed selector and if I do that how do I set up the iTunes tags for the feed in Drupal?
Currently I have Series, Author, etc set up as ID3 tags. Should I use CCK for that instead?
Thanks for any advice...
Should?
I don't know about a should, but I set up ours using feedburner, as the guys suggested back in episode 38, which is actually how I found this podcast in the first place. I googled "podcasting with drupal," and here I am. Got more than I bargained for! lol.
Anthony Pero
Minister of Music
Lima First Assembly of God
http://www.limafirstmedia.com/
http://www.anthonypero.com/boo...
http://www.worshipnexus.org
Feedburner is great
There are a few reasons feedburner is great. One of the biggest in my mind is that rss feeds can be resource hogs. Every time someone updates their feed it's like generating another page. When you use feedburner they take the resource hit rather than you.
Then, there are the stats. I'm a fan of measuring what we are doing. In a world where there are so many possible places we should keep our eyes open to how effective things are.
Then, there is email subscription. Feedburner makes that easy and a lot of people prefer email subscriptions to RSS. On my geekie technical blog I get about 20% of my readers through email. I can't imagine what the email response would be for the general population.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
A few ways you can go
There are a few ways you can go.
You could use getID3 module that comes with the audio module to manage your author, etc. It doesn't so series so I'd make that a CCK field. You could even use that info in other ways (like to link series episodes together). Then, you can add on the iTunes RSS. This will make you feed show the information from the file on an episode.
This can be useful for many occasion. For example, if you have two pastors you can have their names as the author and the distribution would accurately represent that.
A downfall of this approach is that getID3 will overwrite the ID3 tags on the media file. In doing this it will wipe out any you added before that.
A simpler way is to use CCK for your information and not use the iTunes RSS. In this case you can let feedburner do it for you. But, you would have the item level control. This is a simpler setup but you end up with less control.
These are just a few thoughts. There are other ways you can take this as well.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
getID3 vs CCK vs Taxonomy
Great suggestions, Matt.
Here are a couple of other thoughts, based on my own experience. First, taxonomy might be the cleanest way to set up series titles. It's something I've tried on a development site, but not yet in production.
The Metadata tags section of the audio module is pretty flexible. You could add a series field there and make it auto-complete and browsable, but don't check the box for writing it back to the mp3 file.
I've found that a great time to use CCK is for a Date field, especially if you want it to sort correctly. Sticking a date under Metadata tags brought me a lot of grief, and I had to go back and edit a lot of nodes once I got smart enough to make the change.
By the way, it looks like progress is finally being made on the audio module. I see that the 6.x-1.x-dev version is up.
I'm using the latest audio-5.x-2.x-dev version on a site that should be going live this week, and it's working fine so far. I tried doing this site with the asset module, and it just wasn't coming out the way I wanted it.
Micah
CCK for series title?
I'm actually a fan of Node reference for a series title. You have a series node (with a graphic, overview, etc.) and then use a node reference on the audio nodes. Then, you have a series roll-up page that lists the audio from the series, etc.
You can see an example of this at http://www.st-matthew.org/wors...
When it comes to date I just use the published date on the node. Why have more than one date?
Just a few more thoughts.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
I use taxonomy
I use taxonomy for our series on http://www.limafirstmedia.com/.... Works great. I use free-tagging, since I'm the only one adding stuff, and I feel confidant in my ability to spell everything correctly, or at least fix it if I don't, lol.
Tony
Anthony Pero
Minister of Music
Lima First Assembly of God
http://www.limafirstmedia.com/
http://www.anthonypero.com/boo...
http://www.worshipnexus.org
thanks
very helpful once again... thanks very much!
How do I map either a cck
How do I map either a cck field or id3 tag to these fields in the feed?
<itunes:author /><itunes:summary />
<itunes:subtitle />
Custom Code
If you have drupal do it with CCK you will need some custom code to add the tags to RSS. The solution that is integrated with drupal and works out of the box is what's provided in the audio module.
Or, you can add those fields in via feedburner but they would be constant for ever item and not pull from info on your drupal install.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com