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Alan Cring replied on October 26, 2009 18:19 to the question "Is there a widget I can use for my own podcasts on iTunes?" in Widgetbox:
Good afternoon, Dave. You caught me during a break in my classes. Here are the two iTunes-compliant feeds with the respective associated links at Apple iTunes:
http://isu-prof.com/xml-rss2.php
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...
http://hcc-prof.com/xml-rss2.php
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...
As I noted, I could always just make RSS widgets from the /xml-rss2.php URLs, but that would not show the podcasts as being associated with Apple iTunes. Unfortunately, to the extent that I know anything at all about how iTunes, itself, works, there really is an iTunes feed stream, but I've heard that the file format and/or encoding is unusual. I don't have this as first-hand knowledge, though.
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.-
Alan Cring asked a question in Widgetbox on October 26, 2009 04:58:
Is there a widget I can use for my own podcasts on iTunes?I podcast my all of my lectures from two different colleges where I teach, and Apple iTunes aggregates them in two separate albums. Podcasts begin, of course, as RSS feeds from one of the two Websites (NucleusCMS); then the core audio feeds are picked up by iTunes, so theoretically I could make an RSS widget, but that would come out as a link to an MP3 file sort of floating in cyberspace, and more importantly, I wouldn't have the Apple iTunes imprimature associated with the widget, which would give more people seeing the widget incentive to go and subscribe at iTunes. (The podcasts are free, by the way.)
I don't see an iTunes widget, especially one for constantly updated, proprietary podcasts, and that means it looks like this project would be an awful lot like work. Is that a good assessment, or am I missing a relatively painless way to pull this off?
