First there is no hard defined international (e.g. ISO, IEEE, IETF) standard for management of podcasts. A lot of what is used is de-facto and has evolved as "normal" or "usual". So many of the norms were initially defined & used by Apple & iTunes but "extended" by others to accommodate non Apple things. RSS is sort of standard (a sort of dialect of XML) but it was originally used for News feeds but has been "adopted" for podcasts. The original Apple podcast-1.0.dtd XML definition document which defines how Apple uses tags for podcast is seemingly not longer accessible !
dolodobendan wrote: > > There's always a xml / audio file combination Only if you are using a podcast feed but the feed can be of various standards such as RSS, Apple's version of RSS or others. Most use a version of XML to format the feed - XML is just data tagging - it is a generic formatting standard - not a communications protocol -- it does not dictate what needs to be present nor what tags & attributes "means". > The xml file has to contain information about the audio file's length Often (but not always) depending on the type of feed and the source of the feed. So podcast management has to sometime "guess" what is intended. > If the audio file is updated, length information in audio file and > xml file differ and that leads to the problem Don't know. It is one possible explanation. > Does the problem only occur if the audio file is updated while it is > being streamed? No. > Or does this also occur because the xml file was never updated for the > new lengths, i.e. every previously updated stream has the problem? Don't know but possibly also conceivably other reasons. I'll have a look at the specific examples you have given before and the associated LMS code used to decode the feed and then I might be able to give a more definitive answer for the feed with which you have a problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109017 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
