Create a new blog or use an existing one. Use this code in your blog's Template, this should be the ONLY code in the Template, if there is anything else things might go bad for you on some podcasting apps. To reiterate, clear EVERYTHING ELSE out of your template and place this in there. This will turn the output of your blog into a straight up podcast ready bit of RSS. If you love how your blog looks now you may want to start a new blog just for the podcast, blogger.com being the never ending supply of blogspaces.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<channel>
<title><$BlogPageTitle$></title>
<link><$BlogURL$></link>
<description><$BlogDescription$></description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright></copyright>
<lastbuilddate></lastbuilddate>
<blogger>
<item>
<blogitemtitle><title><$BlogItemTitle$></title></blogitemtitle>
<blogitemurl><link><$BlogItemUrl$></link></blogitemurl>
<description><$BlogItemBody$></description>
<pubdate><blogdateheader><$BlogDateHeaderDate$></blogdateheader></pubdate>
<blogitemurl><enclosure url="<$BlogItemUrl$>" length="666"
type="audio/mpeg"/> </blogitemurl>
<guid><$BlogItemPermalinkURL$></guid>
</item>
</blogger>
</channel>
</rss>
1) In the Settings/Publishing section give the blog filename a .xml extension. For example nameofyourpodcast.xml When you need to give people or podcasting apps the url for the podcast feed you give them http://nameofyourblog.blogspot.com/nameofyourpodcast.xml
2) On the Settings/Site Feed sectoin ensure "Publish Site Feed" is set to OFF. You heard right, we do not want this to go thru the Feed process becuase the code we put in the Template is doing that already.
3)In the Settings/Formatting section of your blogs setup make sure the TITLE and LINK options are turned on.
Now you are ready to start making some podcasting magic. When you make a new blog entry...
The header will include some values that come right out of your blogs Basic settings.
A few things to take in mind
Friday, January 21, 2005
A couple of feedback have mentioned the generator tag. Sounds like a good one to add to the template.
Another feedback mentioned that the lastBuildDate tag is empty. Well yes it is. Lets see what blogger templare variable we can stuff in there.
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I've tried what you described, but I can't get my feed to work. I'm using iPodder X lite.
http://brianpodcast.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://brianpodcast.blogspot.com/atom.xml
# posted by 
: 2:44 PM
: 2:44 PM
Well you actualy DID made it work, your just using the wrong URL to get to the results.
Just use http://brianpodcast.blogspot.com/
Thats it, that is what points to the feed, that is the feed. Publish that as your podcast feed to other sites.
Put it in your podcatching app of choice and let it run.
Congrats
Just use http://brianpodcast.blogspot.com/
Thats it, that is what points to the feed, that is the feed. Publish that as your podcast feed to other sites.
Put it in your podcatching app of choice and let it run.
Congrats
Do I need to CLEAN the whole template in my new blog at Blogger.... ?(sorry, I´m a newbie) I´ve tried doing so, but I don´t seem to get it...
Thank you!
Rita
Thank you!
Rita
Something which had me foxed for ages, and which might we worth mentioning here.
I have had a blog for a while and am used to producing RSS feeds from blogger. When I read these instructions my head was still thinking "syndicaiton feed" and as a result the output from my blog was still going to "index.html" and the feed I thought was going to include the ENCLOSURE tags was called blog.xml.
The people at feedburner were therefore failing to turn the RSS feed file I was pointing them at into something usable, whereas the index.html file was quite usable.
I now realise that these instructions are for producing ONLY a feed using the main blogger functions and Site Feed generation should be disabled. So.....it might be worth adding the following instructions to make it clear for thickkies like me.
1) In the Settings/Publishing page of Blogger, give the blog filename a .xml extension.
2) On the Settings/Site Feed page of Blogger, ensure "Publish Site Feed" is set to OFF
Hope that helps to avoid some others the hours of frustration and headscratching I have been having here.
I have had a blog for a while and am used to producing RSS feeds from blogger. When I read these instructions my head was still thinking "syndicaiton feed" and as a result the output from my blog was still going to "index.html" and the feed I thought was going to include the ENCLOSURE tags was called blog.xml.
The people at feedburner were therefore failing to turn the RSS feed file I was pointing them at into something usable, whereas the index.html file was quite usable.
I now realise that these instructions are for producing ONLY a feed using the main blogger functions and Site Feed generation should be disabled. So.....it might be worth adding the following instructions to make it clear for thickkies like me.
1) In the Settings/Publishing page of Blogger, give the blog filename a .xml extension.
2) On the Settings/Site Feed page of Blogger, ensure "Publish Site Feed" is set to OFF
Hope that helps to avoid some others the hours of frustration and headscratching I have been having here.
# posted by : 2:46 AM
: 2:46 AM
Thanks for all the comments. I tweeks the instructions to reflect the ideas you folk posted. Please keep up the tweeking, it helps
-tom
-tom
How the hell can you give the blog filename an xml extension? It only allows you to give the section between "http://" and ".blogspot.com" .
It worked!!! It totally worked. Thank you Tom. I just got into downloading podcasts about a month ago and decided it was something I wanted to try. Thanks for giving me step by step on how to publish my podcasts.
I will say one thing about your instructions. I followed them to the letter and once I got to the end I was totally at a loss on how to actually upload my MP3 file or attach the URL at which my MP3 file is located to the blog post. I had to read the comments to figure out that the MP3 URL link goes in the Link field under Title on the blog post. I didn't really get that at first.
The other thing is in your instructions it states that the URL one should put in their podcasting software (in my case Ipodder) should be the URL of their blog plus a forward slash plus the name of their blog post plus the extension xml. Well that did not work. And as I read the comments I figured out that I was only suppose to put the URL of my blog. Once I did that Ipodder visited teh URL and listed my individual blog post as an "episode" to be downloaded.
Tom, thanks so much for showing me how to do this. This is so great. Now let's just see if I can make some decent content available.
For others who are even newer to this than me you might want to mention in the initial instructions that it is necessary to store one's MP3 podcast on some remote server someonewhere. I'm using server space that I purchased from Yahoo. But when I first read your instructions I thought there was a way to actually UPLOAD the MP3 as some sort of attachment to my blog post.
I will say one thing about your instructions. I followed them to the letter and once I got to the end I was totally at a loss on how to actually upload my MP3 file or attach the URL at which my MP3 file is located to the blog post. I had to read the comments to figure out that the MP3 URL link goes in the Link field under Title on the blog post. I didn't really get that at first.
The other thing is in your instructions it states that the URL one should put in their podcasting software (in my case Ipodder) should be the URL of their blog plus a forward slash plus the name of their blog post plus the extension xml. Well that did not work. And as I read the comments I figured out that I was only suppose to put the URL of my blog. Once I did that Ipodder visited teh URL and listed my individual blog post as an "episode" to be downloaded.
Tom, thanks so much for showing me how to do this. This is so great. Now let's just see if I can make some decent content available.
For others who are even newer to this than me you might want to mention in the initial instructions that it is necessary to store one's MP3 podcast on some remote server someonewhere. I'm using server space that I purchased from Yahoo. But when I first read your instructions I thought there was a way to actually UPLOAD the MP3 as some sort of attachment to my blog post.
Tom, where on the Internet are your podcasts located. As I stated in my last post I put a test mp3 on server space that I purchased on yahoo briefcase. When I added my blog URL as a subscription to Ipodder it deed indeed go to the blog and list my latest post as the most recent podcast. But for some reason when it comes to downloading the podcast it is not working. Now I know the URL it pasted into the Link field works because when I go to my post management page and click on the link, it opens a dialogue box that asks me if I want to play the mp3 or save it to disk. So I don't know why it isn't downloading on Ipodder.
It doesn't really matter because there is a size limitation on files I can upload to my yahoo briefcase. That is why I originally asked where on the Internet you are storing the mp3 files for your podcast.
It doesn't really matter because there is a size limitation on files I can upload to my yahoo briefcase. That is why I originally asked where on the Internet you are storing the mp3 files for your podcast.
Hey Tom. Nice tutorial. I have taken your code and modified it a bit to fit into my blogger template. You can see an example here. You can also view the modifications I have made to your code here.
# posted by : 4:28 AM
: 4:28 AM
I am lost as to where to put the xml on the setting/publish page, I try to add it but the only two options I see are for blogspot address and notfy weblogs, what am i missing??? When i try to change the address it says that it will not allow me to do it. I don't get what is wrong. Please email me at g7whatever@gmail.com with instruction. Thanks so much.
# posted by : 11:59 AM
: 11:59 AM
I'm a Mac person (please don't lecture me) and I use iTunes.
That said, it seems to be working EXCEPT (and they're biggies):
1) Although the podcast feed and individual messages appear in iTunes, the Descriptions (content of blog entries) do not appear.
2) iTunes can't open the entries. I'm using a link that begins with http://www etc. rather than ftp:// . iTunes tells me that the file format is not compatible. But I'm following Apple's instructions for saving the file in MP4 ACC format.
I'm baffled. Anyone successfully using this to feed iTunes? Can you give me some clues?
That said, it seems to be working EXCEPT (and they're biggies):
1) Although the podcast feed and individual messages appear in iTunes, the Descriptions (content of blog entries) do not appear.
2) iTunes can't open the entries. I'm using a link that begins with http://www etc. rather than ftp:// . iTunes tells me that the file format is not compatible. But I'm following Apple's instructions for saving the file in MP4 ACC format.
I'm baffled. Anyone successfully using this to feed iTunes? Can you give me some clues?
# posted by : 5:14 PM
: 5:14 PM
ok so this template does not work right with iTunes, but when I downloaded iPodder I was able to get it to subscribe to my blog and even download the link to my mp3 file....but when it down loads it says that it is 0.0mb. So it followed the link to my mp3 file but it is not downloading. So what am I still doing wrong, do I need to tweak the link to my mp3 files so iPodder actually downloads them or do I need to tweak my blog to point to my file differently. The second question is if I add a new file weekly do I make a new blog for each Podcast or just a new post for each new file??? ANy info would be great. Thanks
# posted by : 7:48 AM
: 7:48 AM
Any ideas on getting it to work with iTunes?
I got it to work great with iPodder, and with Some Desi's modifications (put it into a form and then a textarea and you can still have the pretty look of the blog, and you can click on the title to listen to the mp3 without subscribing).
I got it to work great with iPodder, and with Some Desi's modifications (put it into a form and then a textarea and you can still have the pretty look of the blog, and you can click on the title to listen to the mp3 without subscribing).
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Want to turn off the banner? It's debatable whether it's allowed, but it's easy to do. Just add this code to the beginning of your template:
<noembed>
<head>
</noembed>
Hopefully this won't break any podcasting clients. I haven't tried it yet.
<noembed>
<head>
</noembed>
Hopefully this won't break any podcasting clients. I haven't tried it yet.
# posted by : 4:26 PM
: 4:26 PM
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please help if anyone has a chance, i am trying to incorporate audioblogger into a podcast.
the information here does not seem to work right.
the page looks all funny which is fine, but its not working.
i cant change the xml setting by going to ftp, because i have no hosting, i am trying to do this straight from blogger.
please help if anyone has a chance, i am trying to incorporate audioblogger into a podcast.
the information here does not seem to work right.
the page looks all funny which is fine, but its not working.
i cant change the xml setting by going to ftp, because i have no hosting, i am trying to do this straight from blogger.
Too complicated for me....are there people that actually do this for a living?
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I would like to use your how-to in a book on podcasting and video-blogging I'm working on. Could you contact me? lionel @ carhacks.org
-L
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-L
# posted by : 12:52 PM
: 12:52 PM
so in essence, you can't really use blogger and host on blogger to have a podcast.
kinda defeats the purposes ... oh well, I'll delete my blogger a/c and do my own thing.
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