I’ve come across a few single podcasts that I want to listen to. For example there’s this podcast (link to mp3) talking about Microformats which I really want on my iPod.
The problem is that I can’t add single track to my iPod but have it still show up as being a podcast. The main problem is that the iPod has this cool ‘bookmarking’ (or podmarking if you will) feature where you can stop listening to a podcast, listen to music, then go back to the same podcast later and start where you left off.
This is a killer feature and for me makes all the difference. The problem is that if I drag and drop just the single MP3 into the iPod it won’t work.
I guess I could create a manual RSS file and then import it myself but that seems ugly and really the iPod should have support for doing this itself.
Thoughts? Come on lazyweb! You should have a solution!
Update:
Assaf had a good idea. I can just link to the .mp3 in my blog post. Feedburner should be smart enough to add an enclosure for the .mp3 file and then I can subscribe to my feed within iTunes.
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August 25, 2005 at 2:09 pm
Kevin, you can try grabbing it from here. This feed works with iTunes 4.9:
http://blog.labnotes.org/category/podcast/
Or, you can simply reblog it and use your own feed. For WordPress users, in the post page add a new custom field called enclosure. The vaule should be three lines: URL, length (in bytes, optional), media type (audio/mpeg).
August 25, 2005 at 4:43 pm
Asaf. Good idea. I linked to the MP3 and setup Feedburner to add enclosure info for .mp3 links. Then I subscribe to it in iTunes and it just worked.
Sweet!
August 27, 2005 at 4:34 pm
You could also a del.icio.us like bookmarking site I developed, Linkroll, which allows you to add media files to bookmarks/posts and automatically adds them to your feed(s) as enclosures. So by using a unique tag you can easily add any MP3 file you stumble on to your personal podcast stream.