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Re: podcasts/audio blogs?

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> Hi all,
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> I searched tw.org on both "podcasts" and "audio" and found a few hits, but nothing all that helpful. I'm looking for a way to let instructors at our university upload audio files and let students subscribe to the RSS feed using a podcatch tool such as iTunes. I created a test file gallery and uploaded a couple of sample audio files, then tried subscribing to the feeds a couple of different ways. Thunderbird handled the audio feed fine (once I enabled anonymous download of files), but iTunes can't parse the feed. Next I tried going through FeedBurner (http://www.feedburner.com) using their "smartfeed" option, to see if the media files would be acceptably enclosed. iTunes still can't parse the feed. It seems to get directed straight through to the Tiki feed.
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> Does anyone have a working setup for this? Thunderbird is fine as far as I'm concerned, but I know some folks think it's just not podcasting unless you can automate having the audio files loaded onto your mp3 player, and if we can't use iTunes, I think we're missing a big chunk of the potential audience.
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> Thanks,
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> e. dalton

We shortly discussed that issue again on IRC and marclaporte dug out helpful links:

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