bpa wrote: > First there is no hard defined international (e.g. ISO, IEEE, IETF) > standard for management of podcasts. A lot of what is used is de-facto > and has evolved as "normal" or "usual". So many of the norms were > initially defined & used by Apple & iTunes but "extended" by others to > accommodate non Apple things. RSS is sort of standard (a sort of dialect > of XML) but it was originally used for News feeds but has been "adopted" > for podcasts. The original Apple podcast-1.0.dtd XML definition document > which defines how Apple uses tags for podcast is seemingly not longer > accessible ! > > > Only if you are using a podcast feed but the feed can be of various > standards such as RSS, Apple's version of RSS or others. Most use a > version of XML to format the feed - XML is just data tagging - it is a > generic formatting standard - not a communications protocol -- it does > not dictate what needs to be present nor what tags & attributes "means". > > > > Often (but not always) depending on the type of feed and the source of > the feed. So podcast management has to sometime "guess" what is > intended. > > Don't know. It is one possible explanation. > > > No. > > Don't know but possibly also conceivably other reasons. > > I'll have a look at the specific examples you have given before and the > associated LMS code used to decode the feed and then I might be able to > give a more definitive answer for the feed with which you have a > problem.
Thank you for a glimpse in the mad world of podcasts. I learned a lot. :) The problems also occurs with Rachel Maddow's podcast: https://podcastfeeds.nbcnews.com/audio/podcast/MSNBC-MADDOW-NETCAST-MP3.xml QLMS [email protected] x64 (digimaster) with perl 5.28 dedicated to me. :D / QNAP 469L QTS 4.3.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dolodobendan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67663 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109017 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
