noutram

Q: Podcast producer 2 - can I customise the RRS feeds to better suit iTunesU?

(I'm not sure this is the correct forum for this issue - it relates to podcast producer 2 on Lion Server 10.7.3)

 

I've been using podcast producer 2 on OS X 10.7.3 to host collections of assets (videos mostly) and to produce an RSS feed for an iTunesU collection.

 

  • I use Podcast Publisher to create the initial collection
  • I use Podcast Composer to create a workflow for submitting assets to a particular collection
  • I then use Podcast Publisher to add / annotate new content

 

(The feed produced by Podcast Producer is given to the iTunesU admin once there are enough assets)

 

For the most part it works, but I've hit on a couple issues for which I cannot seem to find a solution:

 

  1. In the RSS feed, whenever I submit an asset to a workflow, the resulting <author> in the RSS always seems to be the short name of a user. Is there a way to have a custom name in the author field?

  2. The poster image for the whole collection is always specified as "poster_image.png" in the RSS feed.
    This is fine, until you want to update the image for a given collection. iTunesU caches images, and unless the filename in the feed changes, it won't update it seems.
    Is there a way to force PCP to use a name other than "poster_image.png" in the feed?

 

 

Many thanks.

Posted on Feb 15, 2012 1:37 AM