Thursday, September 27, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Don’t get me wrong, I personally love iTunes and I highly recommend Apple’s products. (Not just because I’m using a Mac. I was a PC guy for many, many years and still have Boot Camp with XP Pro on my Macbook.)
However, the lackluster performance of iWeb’s handling of Podcast RSS.XML handling is truly frustrating. Upon submitting my Podcast to iTunes, I began to think that Personal Journals would probably be more accurate a category for the Podcast than Education. This requires editing the RSS.XML file and this is when I realized that my wonderfully easy Dot.Mac account was wonderfully difficult to work with if you wanted to do anything that was outside the narrow scope that it was originally set up for.
After doing much reading and taking a guess at a few things, I found a few ways to get under the Dot.Mac skin, per-se. A little editing on the RSS file with Microsoft Word (Even though I have Pages, I’m still not completely used to it’s formating.) and a quick drag-and-drop later... hopefully, I’ve made a quick fix on the Podcast, as far as the iTunes store is concerned... or I’ve completely wrecked the feed. I won’t know until the system refreshes so it’s all up to the Binary gods now... Just kidding! (I really hope this works on the first try, though...)