[FredLUG] problems with rss file for a pseudo podcast

[Derrik Walker v2.0]

On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Paul Frields wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0
> <lorddoomicus at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> There appears to be some XML whizzes among us ... I and I need help ...
>> Basically, I have a script that uses streamripper to record a college radio show I listen too from a Cleveland College station.  I have the basic system working, I can record the file, convert it to an MP3, get it to download to iTunes and transfer to my iPod.  This is only for my local and the server is my Fedora server I have just for tasks like this.
>> But, I can't get the little things working, the image doesn't seem to work, the author information doesn't come up, junk like that.
> 
> Do you mean that these don't come up in the iPod, once the file's
> transferred? If that's the problem it simply means you haven't
> properly tagged the MP3 file. You can use the 'id3tag' command line
> program, or another ID3 tagging utility, to do this.
> 

They don't come up on the iPod, or in iTunes.  I thought everything I needed was in the RSS file.  I didn't realize I had to put it in the id3tags, but kinda makes sense.  I tend to run a lean system with only the packages I really need.  But I can't seem to figure out which package as that command, so what is it?

>> I can get the image to work if I just bring it up directly in a web browser, and the mp3 files transfer fine to iTunes, so all the files exist, and the permissions are not an issue.
>> There a single shell script  does all the recording, converting and creates my rss file, and is run via cron.
>> And, it's worth noting, while I am a Shell and Perl whiz ( working on becoming a C whiz too ), I know very little xml, but it seems to be very much like HTML, which I do know, at least up to version 3.
> 
> Yes, they're related in that they're both markup languages. XML is
> more "rigorous," but nowadays many web programmers use XHTML, so that
> XML tools can properly work with (or even produce) the web pages they
> want. If you're ambitious as a programmer you'll definitely want to be
> familiar with XML at some point.


I'm a system engineer,  I do a fair amount of shell scripting and perl programming, but I have no desire to learn anymore xml than I have too.  

Thanks.

- Derrik 

Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE
lorddoomicus at mac.com
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