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July 24, 2006

del.icio.us podcast enabled feeds

TechLifeWeb has a great post on using a del.icio.us tag RSS feed to collect mp3’s and then subscribe to this tag in your podcatcher…from the post:

“With a little bit of work up front you can set it up so all you have to do is save the link to the mp3 file in your del.icio.us account and it will transfer to your mp3 player the next time you sync it to your computer.”

Use whatever tag you like to save these audio files eg. “myaudio”, but when you recall them use this URL:

http://del.icio.us/yourdelicioususername/system:filetype:mp3+myaudio

The RSS feed from this URL has enclosures, meaning it turns it on as a podcasting feed…more from the post:

“The beauty here is the when you use the system:filetype:mp3 feature of del.icio.us, the rss feed is magically converted to include the mp3 files as enclosures. This is what your podcatcher needs to be able to go out and grab those mp3 files for you.”

You’ve done all the hard work. Next time you find an mp3 file, all you have to do is save the link to del.icio.us and tag it…when your client searches for new podcasts it will look to your del.icio.us account as well and grab any new links you’ve tagged. Sync and enjoy!”

The old hack is to run your del.icio.us tag feed through Feedburner to make it podcast enabled, see del.icio.us podcasts with Feedburner.

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