Is there a standard way to create Atom-format podcasts?
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Searching for "atom podcast" finds me podcasts about atoms, which I'm sure are fascinating but are not what I'm looking for. I've built an RSS feed for a podcast, but I'd like to replace it with Atom, which seems to be better defined and more capable of including arbitrary HTML content.

Encouragement answered 7/1, 2012 at 22:20 Comment(1)
Since Google led me here on the same search, I just want to suggest that this is not a good idea for publishers. I'm entirely onboard with Atom being a cleaner feed format, but in practical terms, iTunes' RSS-flavoured spec is well-entrenched among podcast client libraries and apps beyond iTunes and even Apple's OSs. An Atom feed risks being incompatible with some of them. A lot of feed parsing libraries just provide an array of links and don't do anything intelligent with the link type, so the official enclosure may be ignored. /rantOutdate
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Use an enclosure link (or multiple) in your entry subtree(s).

An overview of the Atom 1.0 Syndication Format has a nice side-by-side example of an RSS and Atom podcast feed.

Rutkowski answered 7/1, 2012 at 22:46 Comment(2)
example: <link href="s3.amazonaws.com/prod.watchitlater/output/…" type="video/mp4" rel="enclosure"/>Alberich
Seems IBM has changed their website and the overview link is broken. Here is a wayback machine link to what I presume was the intended content: web.archive.org/web/20140228123540/http://www.ibm.com/… Also...thanks IBM...nice joIndore

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