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How to Podcast from Sermonbrowser
10 October, 2011
7:25 pm
dayspringonline
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Hi All,

I've got sermon brower working fine..www.dayspringonline.us.

Can someone walk me through the steps to get my mps from sermonbrowser to show up on my itunes podcast that I already have.

i have no clue how to do this.

thanks!!
dan

11 October, 2011
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I've only just started this process myself. You'll need to edit the podcast.php file (in sb-includes). You'll find all info on what you need to edit here . In particular look at the iTunes RSS tags. I also found this example very helpful. I haven't submitted mine to iTunes yet (the website isn't yet launched) but the feed did work when I tested it.

12 October, 2011
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Now, I'm no expert on this by any means but I just finished a site at http://www.cocwarragul.org.au . We're still chasing some caching issues and working on a CDN but for the most part it's done (famous last words). From what I've picked up in the last few weeks a podcast is just a slightly more fancy rss feed. And an rss feed is just a "simple" xml file with a directory of sorts, pointing to the track/mp3 and track information. And. the iTunes store is just a giant "bot" that goes around collecting the info from the xml files [but not the tracks] to make it easy to browse what’s out there. All you have to do to get a store presence is tell iTunes the location of your feed/xml file. All that is way easier said than done and the hardest part to get right IMO is that darn file. Sermon Browser does an amazing job generating that file and the only problem I had was when iTunes tried downloading from the store directly. Refer here. By the sounds of things though you're trying to combine 2 podcasts. I wouldn't have a clue where to start there. If I'm wrong let me know.

Good Luck
Grant

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19 October, 2011
5:06 pm
dayspringonline
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Ok, I deleted my "Old" itunes podcast- and am starting fresh– i submitted the URL of the sermonbrowser feed for my "new" podcast.

so I just need to "fill in the blanks" for more "podcast info" like, author, description image etc… (correct???)

im a rookie, so where in the podcast.php file do i add more of this info?–it doesnt look like the xml file sample that you sent me to.

any help is greatly appreciated!

20 October, 2011
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thedebolavirus
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It is here: http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-c…..odcast.php You should start recognising the code after around line 105. It won't be exactly the same as the examples but you'll recognise the iTunes RSS tags that you can edit and add missing ones in (if there are any).

20 October, 2011
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Sorry, that wasn't supposed to be a link, just a file path for you to follow.

20 October, 2011
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This is the filepath: /wp-content/plugins/sermon-browser/sb-includes/podcast.php

20 October, 2011
3:49 pm
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Hey thedebolavirus! Thx for the help! couple of questions:

1) where do i change the GRAPHIC that shows in my itunes podcast store?

2) How come only 16 messages show up (when i have about 80+ in sermonbrower)?

again I appreciate you helping me out on this!!!!
dan

21 October, 2011
12:27 am
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If it's not there you can just add it with the correct tag:

I'm not sure why only 16 podcasts show up in iTunes, it does the same on mine but I haven't registered it yet and so am not expecting it to work as normal. I'd like to hear the answer too if anyone else has one…

21 October, 2011
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I should really check my posts before I hit 'reply'!

This is the iTunes image tag:

<itunes:image href="your_image_url.png" />
21 October, 2011
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as for the amount of sermons that get listed i found this a while ago and decided to save it for future reference. full credit goes to someone else. just can't remember who?

In podcast.php, line 129, you’ll find this line:
if ($mp3count > 15)
The number in there is one less than the number of sermons that will be included in the feed. So to increase it to contain the last 20 sermons, change it to:
if ($mp3count > 19)

That worked for me.

Grant

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21 October, 2011
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That worked for me too. Thanks!

21 October, 2011
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Ok thanks! made both changes…will wait to see how it looks in itunes in the AM.–I'll keep you posted- thx again!!

24 October, 2011
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Hi Again,
graphic and web address dont work in itunes. Any thoughts? Here is my xml.

thx again for you help!!

http://www.dayspringbaptist.com
en-us
2011 Daniel Reehoff
no

24 October, 2011
4:06 pm
dayspringonline
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well- ok…i guess i cant paste a few lines of my xml in the post. my bad.

bottom line is i matched the apple xml example and still not showing a graphic. So im stumped!

thx!
dan

24 October, 2011
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Use the feed validator to check it: [url="http://www.feedvalidator.org/"]
And then wait a couple of days, it doesn't happen straight away. (I had the same frustration but it did eventually show).

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