-ikiwiki's simple podcasting, while elegant and minimal, doesn't (as
-mentioned in [[todo/blogging]]) produce full-featured feeds. In
-fancy podcasts, episodes are accompanied by text content. The feeds
-also have lots more metadata.
-
-[[!toc]]
-
## Status
[[!template id=gitbranch branch=schmonz/fancypodcast author="[[schmonz]]"]]
[[!tag patch]]
-In summary, the branch preserves ikiwiki's existing podcast behavior,
-adds more featureful behavior, and has been tested to work well in
-some common podcatchers. I believe it is ready for review and
-possible integration, and I'd like to get feedback to that effect
-(or to the contrary) before making further enhancements. I know
-[[joey]]'s the final arbiter here, but I'd appreciate any qualified,
-critical eyes ([[smcv]]?) raking over my diffs. --[[schmonz]]
+Nothing new since 2013/07/21 [[merge|done]] to `master`.
## Features
[[!table data="""
Feature |iTunes RSS|iTunes Atom|Downcast RSS|Downcast Atom
-Feed image |{X} |{X} |{X} |{X}
+Feed image | | | |
Feed title |(./) |(./) |(./) |(./)
-Feed publisher |{X} |{X} |{X} |{X}
-Feed "category" |{X} |{X} |{X} |{X}
+Feed publisher | | | |
+Feed "category" | | | |
Feed date |(./) |(./) |(./) |(./)
-Feed description |(./) |(./) |(./) |{X}
-Episode image |{X} |{X} |{X} |{X}
+Feed description |(./) |(./) |(./) |
+Episode image | | | |
Episode title |(./) |(./) |(./) |(./)
Episode date |(./) |(./) |(./) |(./)
-Episode duration |{X} |{X} |{X} |{X}
-Episode author |{X} |{X} |{X} |{X}
-Episode description|(./) |(./) |(./) |{X}
+Episode duration | | | |
+Episode author | | | |
+Episode description|(./) |(./) |(./) |
Episode enclosure |(./) |(./) |(./) |(./)
"""]]
-## Design
-
-7. For each fancy podcast episode, write a blog post containing
- `\[[!meta enclosure="WikiLink/to/media.mp3"]]`. (Don't specify
- more than one enclosure -- but if you do, last one wins.)
-7. When rendering to HTML (single-page or inlined), append a link
- to the media file.
-7. When rendering to RSS/Atom, the text is the entry's content and
- the media file is its enclosure.
-7. Don't break simple podcasts in pursuit of fancy podcasts.
-
-## Implementation
-
-### Completed
-
-* Cover the existing simple podcast behavior with tests.
-* Add an `enclosure` field to [[plugins/meta]] that expands the
- given [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] to an absolute URL (feed enclosures
- pretty much need to be, and the reference feeds I've looked at
- all do this).
-* Write failing tests for the desired single-page and inlined
- HTML behavior, then make them pass by adding enclosure stanzas
- to `{,inline}page.tmpl`.
-* Write failing tests for the desired RSS/Atom behavior, then make
- them pass via changes to `{atom,rss}item.tmpl` and [[plugins/inline]].
-* Match feature-for-feature with
- [tru_podcast](http://www.rainskit.com/blog/542/tru_podcast-a-podcasting-plugin-for-textpattern)
- (what [[schmonz]] will be migrating from).
-* Enrich [feed metadata](http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html)
- by catching up `rsspage.tmpl` to `atompage.tmpl`.
-* Verify that [[plugins/more]] plays well with fancy podcasts.
-* Verify that the feeds validate.
-* Subscribe to a fancy feed in some common podcatchers and verify
- display details against a reference podcast.
-
-### Must-have (for [[schmonz]], anyway)
-
-* Think carefully about...
- * UTF-8.
- * Whether [[tips/howto avoid flooding aggregators]] suffices for...
- * Converting a simple podcast to a fancy one.
- 7. Set up a non-production copy of one of my podcasts.
- * Manually test that feeds match production.
- * Subscribe to the copy in `r2e`, iTunes, Downcast.
- 7. Try migrating the copy from simple to fancy.
- * Document the steps I take.
- * Make the feed readers update.
- * Document what happens for each of them.
- * Migrating a fancy podcast from elsewhere into ikiwiki.
-* Verify that _all_ the tests pass (not just my new ones).
+## Future improvements
------
+### Embedded audio/video player in browsers
-## Future improvements
+* For a given enclosure, depending on autodetected MIME:
+ * `audio/*` -> `<audio>`
+ * `video/*` -> `<video>`
+* For a given template:
+ * `page.tmpl` -> eagerly fetch media
+ * `inlinepage.tmpl` -> fetch just enough to display durations
+* Only for HTML5 sites, or also okay for XHTML?
+* Does this work well enough in enough browsers, or do we need a
+ JavaScript player to fill in some gaps?
### iTunes fancy podcasting
* [iTunes-specific tags](https://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html)
appear to be RSS-only
- * If they work in Atom, teach `inline` to optionally iTunesify RSS/Atom.
- * Else, add `itunes` as a third kind of feed (RSS plus more stuff).
+ * Can we always include them in RSS feeds, or would that break
+ some feed readers?
+ * Is it even valid to include them in Atom feeds? If so, do
+ Atom podcasts look any better in podcatchers?
+ * Avoid adding a third kind of feed (`itunesrss`), or options
+ to the existing `rss` and `atom` feeds, unless we have to.
* Notable tags for feeds:
* `itunes:subtitle`
* `itunes:author`
* [ffprobe](http://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html) is reasonably fast
* [mediainfo](http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/) is way slower
* Cache computed durations as pagestate
+* [Podcast Feed Best
+ Practice](https://github.com/gpodder/podcast-feed-best-practice/blob/master/podcast-feed-best-practice.md)
+ from the gPodder folks
### Fancy podcast aggregating