I realized the other day you could right or control click in iTunes to get your Podcast URL to link to it (i.e. a phobos URL). For example for Podcast Shuffle Show:
What I wanted to do on Podcast Shuffle was automatically link up all the podcasts to iTunes at launch but could never find a URL format. Well here it is PCAST!
A few folks have written up easy to create pcast links and files so that it is real easy to transfer a web visitor to their itunes. Here's a synoposis:
For Mac users, use pcast:// instead of http://
example:
Subscribe to the Podcast Shuffle Show in iTunes (Mac)
For windows you apparently need to make a XML files and name it .pcast
example from pasta.cantbedone.org:
Serving Mac browsers (Safari and Firefox tested):
1. Use the pcast: protocol to form your feed URL:
pcast://del.icio.us/rss/gu.st/log%2Bsystem:media:audio
2. Done.
Serving Windows browsers (IE and Firefox tested):
1. Create a .pcast XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pcast PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PCAST 1.0//EN" "http://www.itunes.com/DTDs/pcast-1.0.dtd">
<pcast version="1.0">
<channel>
<link rel="feed" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://del.icio.us/rss/gu.st/log%2Bsystem:media:audio" />
<title>gu.st</title>
<category>Blog</category>
<subtitle>Me. And others.</subtitle>
</channel>
</pcast>
2. Set Content-Type to "application/octet-stream"
3. If your file does not end in .pcast, be sure to set the Content-Disposition to "attachment; filename=whatever.pcast"
Example:
Subscribe to the Podcast Shuffle Show in iTunes (PC)
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I need to update the Podcast Shuffle database now to create those links. ;)
