Podcast Support

[Mathias Panzenböck]

On 11/21/2009 07:58 PM, Bart Cerneels wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 23:55, Mathias Panzenböck
> <grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> You see that Atom seems to be an awesome format that already thinks about a lot
>> of cases that aren't covered by RSS 1.0/2.0. However, one thing it's missing is
>> some kind of <description> for *feeds*. The summary and content elements are for
>> episodes only, the feed element only has a subtitle child, so I guess users will
>> likely use a provides RSS feed instead (where we have to guess the content type
>> of the <description>).
> 
> In my experience atom feeds are not available for podcasts unless
> auto-generated by a CMS. Since iTunes doesn't support atom it can be
> considered irrelevant for podcasting.

My sister owns an iMac and just successfully subscribed to this feed:
http://tim.geekheim.de/feed/atom/
using iTunes. So iTunes supports atom. :)

	-panzi