Media RSS

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smcilreavy Reply #1, 17 years, 4 months ago

Looking for a simple straight forward solution to making a Media RSS feed.

Have tried using standard ditto / Jot xml feed, but doesnt validate as MRSS.

Any ideas?

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dev_cw Reply #2, 17 years, 4 months ago

You need to use ditto with a custom template for the mrss format. You can also create a custom format file (look at /assets/snippets/ditto/formats for examples).

In looking at the specs you will need to use additional snippet (or phx modifiers) to get data like file size etc..:

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
<channel>
<title>Song Site</title>
<link>http://www.foo.com</link>
<description>Discussion on different songs</description>
    <item>
        <title>These songs make me think about blah</title>
        <link>http://www.foo.com/item1.htm</link>
        <media:content url="http://www.foo.com/band1-song1.mp3" 
        fileSize="1000" type="audio/mpeg" expression="full">
        <media:credit role="musician">member of band1</media:credit>
        <media:category>music/band1/album/song</media:category>
        <media:rating>nonadult</media:rating>
        </media:content>
        <media:content url="http://www.foo.com/band2-song1.mp3" 
        fileSize="2000" type="audio/mpeg" expression="full">
        <media:credit role="musician">member of band2</media:credit>
        <media:category>music/band2/album/song</media:category>
        <media:rating>nonadult</media:rating>
        </media:content>
        <media:content url="http://www.foo.com/band3-song1.mp3" 
        fileSize="1500" type="audio/mpeg" expression="full">
        <media:credit role="musician">member of band3</media:credit>
        <media:category>music/band3/album/song</media:category>
        <media:rating>nonadult</media:rating>
        </media:content>
    </item>
</channel>
</rss>

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