Sunday, May 22, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
"Compiling a Network" - officially a meta-label...(?)
After a couple of years of on-and-off external suggestions (and pressure) -
"Compiling a Network" is now officially a meta-label on sonicsquirrel.net...!
Link: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/Compiling_a_Network/1554/
That's right, all of the sets from both the "Compiling a Network"- and the
"dee3 | datamixes"-series are all gathered together and are now available
from here (too)!
So does this mean that I'll henceforth be ditching my previous hosting-service
at archive.org?
No (and yes), as all previous and future sets will also (still) be available from
archive.org, but TBH I'm sort of fed up with some the apparently recurring technical-
issues that archive.org subject themselves to, which at the end of the day will give you,
the user, a less than positive experience - sluggish/slow transfer-rates and occasional
broken links come to mind...
Anyways, and from now on, all file-formats from both the "Compiling a Network"-
and the "dee3 | datamixes"-series will still be available from archive.org,
but as for the mp3-files, which appear as enclosures on these two mix-series'
podcast- and RSS-feeds, all of these will from now on be hosted at - and delivered
from - sonicsquirrel.net.
Another major, noticeable change is that both mix-series' podcast-and RSS-feeds have
not only been updated and slimmed down, they are now both powered by delicious'
RSS-feed capabilties and "dressed up" with the services provided by Google's Feedburner
(something which I earlier have written about); there are many reasons behind this somewhat
radical move, but at the end of the day, all of this is for the better for all parties involved - and especially for you (the user), too.
It's now very late - so I'll be signing off for now, thanks for reading this...
d.
"Compiling a Network" is now officially a meta-label on sonicsquirrel.net...!
Link: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/Compiling_a_Network/1554/
That's right, all of the sets from both the "Compiling a Network"- and the
"dee3 | datamixes"-series are all gathered together and are now available
from here (too)!
So does this mean that I'll henceforth be ditching my previous hosting-service
at archive.org?
No (and yes), as all previous and future sets will also (still) be available from
archive.org, but TBH I'm sort of fed up with some the apparently recurring technical-
issues that archive.org subject themselves to, which at the end of the day will give you,
the user, a less than positive experience - sluggish/slow transfer-rates and occasional
broken links come to mind...
Anyways, and from now on, all file-formats from both the "Compiling a Network"-
and the "dee3 | datamixes"-series will still be available from archive.org,
but as for the mp3-files, which appear as enclosures on these two mix-series'
podcast- and RSS-feeds, all of these will from now on be hosted at - and delivered
from - sonicsquirrel.net.
Another major, noticeable change is that both mix-series' podcast-and RSS-feeds have
not only been updated and slimmed down, they are now both powered by delicious'
RSS-feed capabilties and "dressed up" with the services provided by Google's Feedburner
(something which I earlier have written about); there are many reasons behind this somewhat
radical move, but at the end of the day, all of this is for the better for all parties involved - and especially for you (the user), too.
It's now very late - so I'll be signing off for now, thanks for reading this...
d.
"Before I was so rudely interupted"...
No, this is not a blog-post about the first mp3-file that I ever bought
(and BTW - I've also got Dave Clarke's tune as a 12" too, so settle down...)!
I'm well aware of my lengthy hiatus from this blog, but this is due to the fact
that I've been quite busy with work (and I actually still am, too) plus some other
factors that can probably best be categorized and filed under: "Life got in the way"!
That being written and said, I have actually seen all of the various comments
(i.e.: questions) that've been posted, and I will reply to all of these A.S.A.P.
and in a very near foreseeable future, too...!
Before I wrap this post up, I'd like to take the opportunity to apologize to those of you,
whom have posted comments and might've felt ignored in some manner or fashion,
due to my lack of reply.
As I wrote: replies are (soon) on their way...
Thanks for reading this,
d.
(and BTW - I've also got Dave Clarke's tune as a 12" too, so settle down...)!
I'm well aware of my lengthy hiatus from this blog, but this is due to the fact
that I've been quite busy with work (and I actually still am, too) plus some other
factors that can probably best be categorized and filed under: "Life got in the way"!
That being written and said, I have actually seen all of the various comments
(i.e.: questions) that've been posted, and I will reply to all of these A.S.A.P.
and in a very near foreseeable future, too...!
Before I wrap this post up, I'd like to take the opportunity to apologize to those of you,
whom have posted comments and might've felt ignored in some manner or fashion,
due to my lack of reply.
As I wrote: replies are (soon) on their way...
Thanks for reading this,
d.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Guest set on Teknology 15/01/11: Tracklist
For all of you trainspottters that listened to the show yesterday
(and for those of you that accidentally pressed "Record"), here's
the set list:
01. Helical Scan - Index 1 (Monolake/Imbalance Computer Music)
02. Function - Ghost Echoes (Sandwell District)
03. Martyn - Miniluv (Ostgut Ton)
04. The Black Dog - CCTV-Nation 'Slam Mix' (Soma)
05. Rktic - Midnight Glare (Thinner)
06. Rktic - The Opposite (Thinner)
07. Traversable Wormhole - When 2D Meets 3D 'Peter Van Hoesen Remix' (CLR)
08. Traversable Wormhole - Closed Timelike Curve 'Marcel Dettmann Remix' (CLR)
09. RaÌz/Silent Servant - Raíz 'Ciencia Ficción Edición' (Historia y Violencia)
10. Substance Vainqueur - Emerge 1 'British Murder Boys Remix 1' (Scion Versions)
11. Portion Reform - Shift Worker (Downwards)
12. BT - Fibonacci Sequence (Headspace)
13. SGNL_FLTR - Thrust 4 (Stadtgruen)
14. SGNL_FLTR - Thrust 7 (Stadtgruen)
15. Sub - Black Sun 'Version (Motorlab)
16. Miss Kittin & The Hacker - PPPO 'Function's Sandwell Mix' (Nobody's Bizzness)
Thanks for listening - and reading this...
d.
(and for those of you that accidentally pressed "Record"), here's
the set list:
01. Helical Scan - Index 1 (Monolake/Imbalance Computer Music)
02. Function - Ghost Echoes (Sandwell District)
03. Martyn - Miniluv (Ostgut Ton)
04. The Black Dog - CCTV-Nation 'Slam Mix' (Soma)
05. Rktic - Midnight Glare (Thinner)
06. Rktic - The Opposite (Thinner)
07. Traversable Wormhole - When 2D Meets 3D 'Peter Van Hoesen Remix' (CLR)
08. Traversable Wormhole - Closed Timelike Curve 'Marcel Dettmann Remix' (CLR)
09. RaÌz/Silent Servant - Raíz 'Ciencia Ficción Edición' (Historia y Violencia)
10. Substance Vainqueur - Emerge 1 'British Murder Boys Remix 1' (Scion Versions)
11. Portion Reform - Shift Worker (Downwards)
12. BT - Fibonacci Sequence (Headspace)
13. SGNL_FLTR - Thrust 4 (Stadtgruen)
14. SGNL_FLTR - Thrust 7 (Stadtgruen)
15. Sub - Black Sun 'Version (Motorlab)
16. Miss Kittin & The Hacker - PPPO 'Function's Sandwell Mix' (Nobody's Bizzness)
Thanks for listening - and reading this...
d.
Monday, January 3, 2011
iPad-/iPhone-fallback for Soundcloud's embedded player (using HTML5)
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS NOW TECHNICALLY OBSOLETE!
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE UPDATED VERSION!
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This posting falls under the more geeky categories of things, but nevertheless
might be of some interest for all of Soundcloud-submitters/-users out there!
As we all know, Soundcloud offers it's users the ability to share it's players
in various places in various ways; furthermore, Soundcloud also offers some
code so that one can also embed and use Soundcloud's player on one's own
website, blog, whatever!
The embed-code, which one can paste into the HTML-code of one's website,
blog etc., will then generate something like the player shown below:
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE UPDATED VERSION!
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This posting falls under the more geeky categories of things, but nevertheless
might be of some interest for all of Soundcloud-submitters/-users out there!
As we all know, Soundcloud offers it's users the ability to share it's players
in various places in various ways; furthermore, Soundcloud also offers some
code so that one can also embed and use Soundcloud's player on one's own
website, blog, whatever!
The embed-code, which one can paste into the HTML-code of one's website,
blog etc., will then generate something like the player shown below:
595 SESSION 01 - Introduction To 595 by wildtek
However, this otherwise excellent player (which does it's job quite nicely too, BTW)
is SWF-based; well knowing that Soundcloud's players (on their site) work perfectly
well on iPads, their SWF-based players intended for embedding on webpages outside
of Soundcloud obviously won't work, if rendered on iPads and/or iPhones...!
Something which also has been mentioned on Soundcloud's own support-pages - for
example here and here
Therefore, I been trying to work out a simple HTML5-based fallback mechanism for
Soundcloud's embedded players, so that if an iPad or iPhone comes across a webiste
with the SWF-embedded player, instead of showing zilch would then show something
more functional (and musically playable) as the native-player depicted below:
But "How...?" could one ask - and here's - IMHO - the answer regarding how to go about this;
in the following below are two code examples with Soundcloud's original embed-code with the
HTML5 audio-tag embedded for the "iWhatever"-fallback and a slimmed and trimmed down code,
based on Drew McLellan's Satay-method and also with the with the HTML5 audio-tag fallback
mechanism, followed by the "how-to-do"-instructions for the implementation side of things.
As for now, this solution works, and I'd like to say thanks a lot to Vergel Evans (http://www.humanjava.com/) plus some of my students (to remain unnamed, so they won't get hung out by their peers for being a "teacher's pet") for volunteering to test this solution (or: workaround) out!
Also please note that this solution works for now; I can't nor won't guarantee it'll work after the next major girlie-name technical overhaul Soundcloud puts it's site through; but one can hope that they'll re-jig the code for their embedded player, so any forthcoming player has a similar fallback mechanism!
(And to Soundcloud: go ahead and use the code in this post, but remember to send a check to me...) ;-)
Thanks for reading this...
d.
However, this otherwise excellent player (which does it's job quite nicely too, BTW)
is SWF-based; well knowing that Soundcloud's players (on their site) work perfectly
well on iPads, their SWF-based players intended for embedding on webpages outside
of Soundcloud obviously won't work, if rendered on iPads and/or iPhones...!
Something which also has been mentioned on Soundcloud's own support-pages - for
example here and here
Therefore, I been trying to work out a simple HTML5-based fallback mechanism for
Soundcloud's embedded players, so that if an iPad or iPhone comes across a webiste
with the SWF-embedded player, instead of showing zilch would then show something
more functional (and musically playable) as the native-player depicted below:
But "How...?" could one ask - and here's - IMHO - the answer regarding how to go about this;
in the following below are two code examples with Soundcloud's original embed-code with the
HTML5 audio-tag embedded for the "iWhatever"-fallback and a slimmed and trimmed down code,
based on Drew McLellan's Satay-method and also with the with the HTML5 audio-tag fallback
mechanism, followed by the "how-to-do"-instructions for the implementation side of things.
Soundcloud's original embed-code with the audio-tag embedded (The "quick & dirty"-way):
<object height="81" width="100%">
<param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2197494"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2197494" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%">
</embed>
<audio style="width:100%; height:15px" src="http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/rYl37zjX02TL?url=http%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2197494" controls preload="none">
</object>
<param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2197494"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2197494" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%">
</embed>
<audio style="width:100%; height:15px" src="http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/rYl37zjX02TL?url=http%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2197494" controls preload="none">
</object>
The modified, slimmed-down embed-code with the audio-tag embedded:
<object data="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2197494" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="81" width="380">
<param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2197494" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<audio style="width:100%; height:15px" src="http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/rYl37zjX02TL?url=http%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2197494" controls preload="none"></audio>
</object>
<param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2197494" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<audio style="width:100%; height:15px" src="http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/rYl37zjX02TL?url=http%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2197494" controls preload="none"></audio>
</object>
How-to-do:
- Copy and paste Soundcloud's embedded player onto the webpage, where you want it to appear, with supplied embed-code from your artist-page on Soundcloud
- Flush your browser's cache, reload your webpage with the now embedded player, and press "Play" on the player
- Refresh your browser's cache window, and look for a cache-list entry that looks something like this "http://media.soundcloud.com/stream..."
- Copy the above-mentioned URI, but only the first part of the string - as in the following: http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/XXXXXXXXXXXX?url=http%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/YYYYYY
(note: "XXXXXXXXXXXX" is a 12 character alphanumerical string, where the "YYYYYYY" is a seven digit string; see the bolded code-strings in the code-examples above) - If using Soundcloud's unaltered embed-code, then insert between the closing embed- and object-tags the html5 audio-tags with the necessary URI- and values, then paste the aforementioned URI from Soundcloud in as the "src"-value in the HTML5-code; but the second slimmed-down embed-code with the audio-tag embedded is the one you should use - just stick the HTML5 audio-tags and values in between the last "param"-tag and the object-end tag, then you should be good to go...
(again: see the bolded code-strings in the code-examples above)... - Save your endeavors/publish/whatever - and that's it
As for now, this solution works, and I'd like to say thanks a lot to Vergel Evans (http://www.humanjava.com/) plus some of my students (to remain unnamed, so they won't get hung out by their peers for being a "teacher's pet") for volunteering to test this solution (or: workaround) out!
Also please note that this solution works for now; I can't nor won't guarantee it'll work after the next major girlie-name technical overhaul Soundcloud puts it's site through; but one can hope that they'll re-jig the code for their embedded player, so any forthcoming player has a similar fallback mechanism!
(And to Soundcloud: go ahead and use the code in this post, but remember to send a check to me...) ;-)
Thanks for reading this...
d.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Coming guest-slot on Dimitri Pike's Teknology-show...
Apart from saying: "Spread the word and BE THERE", I'll hand the rest
of this post's info to the picture and let it do rest of the talking!
Thanks for reading (and viewing) this...
d.
P.S. Check out the Teknology-show every Saturday-evening at 20:00hrs (CET)...!
of this post's info to the picture and let it do rest of the talking!
Thanks for reading (and viewing) this...
d.
P.S. Check out the Teknology-show every Saturday-evening at 20:00hrs (CET)...!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
"Famous last words..." - for now!
After 23 mixes and over 1.5 Million downloads of the sets (combined),
I have decided to cease creating - and uploading - any new mixes...
At least for a undetermined future, anyway...
For the record (and before any rumours run rampant), there aren't any
legal-reasons nor any form of "behind-the-scenes"-B.S. behind my decision.
Finally, to all of the contributing artists and/or labels that have allowed
me to use their respective material on any and all of the mixes, I would like
to (still) express my eternal gratitude for allowing me to use your material
on these mixes.
You all know, who you are...
Thanks for reading this...
d.
I have decided to cease creating - and uploading - any new mixes...
At least for a undetermined future, anyway...
For the record (and before any rumours run rampant), there aren't any
legal-reasons nor any form of "behind-the-scenes"-B.S. behind my decision.
Finally, to all of the contributing artists and/or labels that have allowed
me to use their respective material on any and all of the mixes, I would like
to (still) express my eternal gratitude for allowing me to use your material
on these mixes.
You all know, who you are...
Thanks for reading this...
d.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
10 mix-CD's I'd want on my iPod for that stay on a desert island...
Here are 10 mix-CD's, which I'd definitely like to have on my (solar-powered?) iPod
for that stay on a desert island!
I'm not going write page up and down singing these mix-CD's praises, nor any of
the other reasons w-h-y I'd get these CD's on my iPod and packed along with the
other survival-gear, I'd pack along!
But read on - and either nod or shake your head regarding the selections, and do feel
welcome to drop a comment regarding which mix-CD's that YOU'D bring along to
that stay on some desert island.
(BTW, mix sets that are released as mp3-files will probably get mentioned in a later post)
And now to the ten selected CD's (in alphabetical order):
Carl Cox - F.A.C.T. [React]
The Chemical Brothers - Brothers Gonna Work It Out [Freestyle Dust/Virgin]
Dave Clarke - Fuse Presents Dave Clarke [Music Man Records]
Richie Hawtin - Decks, EFX & 909 [M_nus]
Jeff Mills - Live At The Liquid Room [React]
The Prodigy - The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One [XL Recordings]
Scion - Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks [Tresor]
Luke Slater - Fear And Loathing 1 [React]
Luke Slater - Fear And Loathing 2 [Resist Music]
Surgeon - This Is For You Shits [Warp Records]
(BTW, my copy is numbered "0068"...)
Thanks for reading this...
d.
for that stay on a desert island!
I'm not going write page up and down singing these mix-CD's praises, nor any of
the other reasons w-h-y I'd get these CD's on my iPod and packed along with the
other survival-gear, I'd pack along!
But read on - and either nod or shake your head regarding the selections, and do feel
welcome to drop a comment regarding which mix-CD's that YOU'D bring along to
that stay on some desert island.
(BTW, mix sets that are released as mp3-files will probably get mentioned in a later post)
And now to the ten selected CD's (in alphabetical order):
Carl Cox - F.A.C.T. [React]
The Chemical Brothers - Brothers Gonna Work It Out [Freestyle Dust/Virgin]
Dave Clarke - Fuse Presents Dave Clarke [Music Man Records]
Richie Hawtin - Decks, EFX & 909 [M_nus]
Jeff Mills - Live At The Liquid Room [React]
The Prodigy - The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One [XL Recordings]
Scion - Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks [Tresor]
Luke Slater - Fear And Loathing 1 [React]
Luke Slater - Fear And Loathing 2 [Resist Music]
Surgeon - This Is For You Shits [Warp Records]
(BTW, my copy is numbered "0068"...)
Thanks for reading this...
d.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Google's mp3-player with HTML5-fallback for your blogspot-site...
There are already a "dump truck"-load of snazzy mp3-players out there, with all of
the graphical bells-and-whistles plus the necessary (IMO, bloated) HTML-code
needed to copy-and-paste and embed a player on your website - I'm already well
aware of this fact!
But...
Less HTML-code on a site (in general) is always preferable, especially if one wants
to speed up the time it takes for her/his site's to load! Furthermore, Google now also
a site's loading speed as one of the factors in their search ranking algorithms:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html
Based on my "meager knowledge" of these things and from what I can gather looking
around out on the net, the majority of the embeddable mp3-players out there are
SWF-based; but what if you want - say - iPad-users to listen to your musical output, too?
In this post, I'll show you, how to take an already online mp3-player that requires a
minimum of HTML to work AND add a HTML5-fallback for the iPad-/iPhone-users
out there - in two minutes flat...!
Regarding the mp3-player, we'll be using for this solution, has previously been offline
for some odd reason, but now it's BACK - Google actually has an online mp3-player,
which you can use for your blogspot-page etc., and requires a bare-ass minimum of
code to work - compared with some of the other mp3-player solutions out there, mind.
I'm not going to dissect the code below and write page up and down about it, but trust me:
all of the necessary code you'll be needing - and which you can copy-and-paste into your
own sites HTML-code - looks something like this:
<div>
<object data="http://reader.googleusercontent.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="380" height="27">
<param name="src" value="http://reader.googleusercontent.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="audioUrl=URL_PATH_TO_THE_MP3_FILE" />
<audio src=" URL_PATH_TO_THE_MP3_FILE " controls preload="none" style="width:380px;"></audio>
</object>
</div>
Which should generate something like this AFTER you've replaced the string
"PATH_TO_THE_MP3_FILE" with the full URL-address to your mp3-file:
And that's all that is need to embed a mp3-player on your page with a HTML5
fallback for iPad-/iPhone-users out there.
Thanks for reading this...
d.
the graphical bells-and-whistles plus the necessary (IMO, bloated) HTML-code
needed to copy-and-paste and embed a player on your website - I'm already well
aware of this fact!
But...
Less HTML-code on a site (in general) is always preferable, especially if one wants
to speed up the time it takes for her/his site's to load! Furthermore, Google now also
a site's loading speed as one of the factors in their search ranking algorithms:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html
Based on my "meager knowledge" of these things and from what I can gather looking
around out on the net, the majority of the embeddable mp3-players out there are
SWF-based; but what if you want - say - iPad-users to listen to your musical output, too?
In this post, I'll show you, how to take an already online mp3-player that requires a
minimum of HTML to work AND add a HTML5-fallback for the iPad-/iPhone-users
out there - in two minutes flat...!
Regarding the mp3-player, we'll be using for this solution, has previously been offline
for some odd reason, but now it's BACK - Google actually has an online mp3-player,
which you can use for your blogspot-page etc., and requires a bare-ass minimum of
code to work - compared with some of the other mp3-player solutions out there, mind.
I'm not going to dissect the code below and write page up and down about it, but trust me:
all of the necessary code you'll be needing - and which you can copy-and-paste into your
own sites HTML-code - looks something like this:
<div>
<object data="http://reader.googleusercontent.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="380" height="27">
<param name="src" value="http://reader.googleusercontent.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="audioUrl=URL_PATH_TO_THE_MP3_FILE" />
<audio src=" URL_PATH_TO_THE_MP3_FILE " controls preload="none" style="width:380px;"></audio>
</object>
</div>
Which should generate something like this AFTER you've replaced the string
"PATH_TO_THE_MP3_FILE" with the full URL-address to your mp3-file:
And that's all that is need to embed a mp3-player on your page with a HTML5
fallback for iPad-/iPhone-users out there.
Thanks for reading this...
d.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
How to make a podcast-feed (the fast and easy way...!) - Pt. 2
In this blog's previous posting you've now - courtesy of delicious - made
the necessary XML-file, which you (now) can use for your totally-cool podcast!
YAY!
But the feed-title: "Delicious/(your user-name)" and the sub-title:
"bookmarks posted by (your user-name)" might NOT be the coolest thing to
have showing on your (current) feed - let alone having y-o-u-r podcast known
out there as: "Delicious/(your user-name)"
So why not make it a bit more "personal" with Google's Feedburner?
If you've already got an account with Google, then you can use this
account to log in; if not then (just) create your Feedburner-account
and get it over with!
When you're all logged in at Feedburner then look for the following:
"Burn a feed right this instant. Type your blog or feed address here",
and then tap in (or copy-and-paste) the address from the RSS-page
you've just made at delicious, remember to check the box "I am a podcaster!"
and now click on the "Next"-button!
You are now going to give your feed it's (proper) name AND the URL-address,
which from now on will be the URLaddresss, you'll be using for your RSS and/or
podcast-feed!
Now, as Feedburner says on the following page, it's time to dress up your feed
a little bit, and make more personal, by clicking on the next "Next"-button!
On the next page, you'll now be configuring your podcast and telling iTunes how
to show things regarding your feed.
the following page check all three check-boxes on this page, and click again on
this page's "Next"-button.
On the following page, click on the "Optimize"-tab and then find and click on
the: "Title/Description Burner"-link; on this page, type in the "New Title:"-field
the desired name for your podcast followed by clicking on "Activate"-button -
and you should now be all set with y-o-u-r new podcast...!
Finally, just to illustrate things - here's a final working example made from the
feed-example shown in the previous posting, and after I've used Feedburner's
"Title/Description Burner"-option: http://feeds.feedburner.com/dee3-exp
After following the instructions in both the previous and this posting, you should
now have a more personalized podcast-feed ready to unleash on the unsuspecting
masses out there!
Thanks for reading this...
d.
the necessary XML-file, which you (now) can use for your totally-cool podcast!
YAY!
But the feed-title: "Delicious/(your user-name)" and the sub-title:
"bookmarks posted by (your user-name)" might NOT be the coolest thing to
have showing on your (current) feed - let alone having y-o-u-r podcast known
out there as: "Delicious/(your user-name)"
So why not make it a bit more "personal" with Google's Feedburner?
If you've already got an account with Google, then you can use this
account to log in; if not then (just) create your Feedburner-account
and get it over with!
When you're all logged in at Feedburner then look for the following:
"Burn a feed right this instant. Type your blog or feed address here",
and then tap in (or copy-and-paste) the address from the RSS-page
you've just made at delicious, remember to check the box "I am a podcaster!"
and now click on the "Next"-button!
You are now going to give your feed it's (proper) name AND the URL-address,
which from now on will be the URLaddresss, you'll be using for your RSS and/or
podcast-feed!
Now, as Feedburner says on the following page, it's time to dress up your feed
a little bit, and make more personal, by clicking on the next "Next"-button!
On the next page, you'll now be configuring your podcast and telling iTunes how
to show things regarding your feed.
- Set the "Create podcast enclosures from links to"-option to "any rich media file"
- Check the box next to "Include iTunes podcasting elements"
- Choose "Music" under the "Category:"-option
- Fill out the the form-fields the best you can
- Check the box next to "Include "Media RSS" information and add podcast to Yahoo! Search"
the following page check all three check-boxes on this page, and click again on
this page's "Next"-button.
On the following page, click on the "Optimize"-tab and then find and click on
the: "Title/Description Burner"-link; on this page, type in the "New Title:"-field
the desired name for your podcast followed by clicking on "Activate"-button -
and you should now be all set with y-o-u-r new podcast...!
Finally, just to illustrate things - here's a final working example made from the
feed-example shown in the previous posting, and after I've used Feedburner's
"Title/Description Burner"-option: http://feeds.feedburner.com/dee3-exp
After following the instructions in both the previous and this posting, you should
now have a more personalized podcast-feed ready to unleash on the unsuspecting
masses out there!
Thanks for reading this...
d.
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