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Re: MP3 handling? Opinions, suggestions, etc.
A great tutorial on the feedburner method is posted at my friend Rob’s site here
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Re: MP3 handling? Opinions, suggestions, etc.
hi ma_smith.
Sorry, but, the link is broken.
You find the article here
Burning the feed with Feedburner is not a big issue, but Textpattern should be able to make the right feed!
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#18 2006-03-31 21:15:13
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Re: MP3 handling? Opinions, suggestions, etc.
Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone has created a TXP solution to the creating podcasts without having to use Feed Burner. I haven’t seen any action here in a while and was wondering how things were going and would like to help.
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I think, everybody is waiting for the 4.1 release. There should be a feed template.
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ma_smith wrote:
- what if the mp3 files are biggish? (4mb +)
Hi Matthew,
Maybe <a href=“http://tips-scripts.com/?tip=upload”>this</a> script might help.
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Colak,
I’ll be looking into that, Thanks!
Dreamhost has let me know that I can “compile” PHP specific to my user account.
Which means I can affect the php.ini directly. All of that is WAY over my head, but
I may give it a go, with some help from mee TXP friends here at the forum :)
Matthew
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Hey Matthew,
I assume this is all tied up to the upload limit when doing it via php?
I host with DH too, so when you find out what all that means, let me know too… ;-)
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NeilA,
I contacted Dreamhost and they helped me with this: (actually I innadvertantly contact them twice with the same request. The most helpful was the following, the least helpful said nothing could be done, goes to show it doesn’t hurt to ask twice or be persistant)
email from dreamhost:
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Unfortunately, we can not change the php configuration for the server as
a whole, and our architecture currently does not allow us to make a
modification for a single account.
You can, however, compile PHP via your shell user under your own account,
which will give you your own php.ini file under your user account that
you can modify with whatever changes you like, including upping the max
filesize.
We have some information on compiling PHP (as well as a shell script
that’ll do pretty much everything for you) at the following URLs:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Installing_PHP4
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Installing_PHP5
If you have any further questions or difficulty, please let us know.
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If you know how to do this Neil, I would love some help. Otherwise I am waiting to hear back from the few folks I know who are good at this sort of thing.
Matthew
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Most of that makes sense Matthew… I’ll have a crack at it tomorrow (late afternoon here now)…
Will let you know.
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#25 2006-04-02 10:10:31
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just a link: Jon Hicks found sounds
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I configured the Small Dog Electronics blog with Podcasting earlier this year and it’s been working very well.
I did modify php.ini to support larger file uploads (can’t remember which variables, but I can post them if someone wants me to). Basically, I created a new section “podcast-rss” (although I could have called it anything) which is never linked to except by “feed://” URLs, the “page” I built for it just outputs the RSS with enclosures built, etc. I use one of the custom fields for the file name and that’s it.
It works quite well, although when it went live I moved the actual MP3 files out of Textpattern, but that was mainly because I’ve got some servers round-robin’d for file and image hosting (to prevent traffic spikes on the the podcast from bringing the blog to its knees).
Great solution, but I’ll be elated if Textpattern 4.1 has themes of some type for syndication feeds (so I can offer more modernized RSS feeds as well as ATOM feeds and the podcast). I can write up a tutorial on this if anyone thinks it’d be useful.
Morgan Aldridge
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Morgant,
Go for it. I’d love to see that and I think a bunch of others would as well. (Both counts : the tutorial and the php.ini file changes)
Thanks for thinking of us :)
Matthew
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#28 2006-05-13 04:31:50
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Morgant,
same here I’m curious to see a tutorial on this topic
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on second thought, I think that we should be encouragin clients to have greater support for a staff member who knows how to use something as simple as an ftp client. The world or a “webmasterless” client is a farfetched one, and perhaps not ideal. IMHO.
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Hi guys, i follow all that is said here and i am really looking forward having my vpodcast chain workin on TXP.
Unfortunately i can’t code that much now.
Regarding upload problems, it may be interesting to have a look at Webdav. A webdav support on TXP would be great !!! ez publish is doin this very well (of course ez publish is not the same kind of software but you could take ideas)
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