iTunes submitted, RSS Feed active

[Dot50Cal]

April 5th, 2011 Update:
New RSS Feed is here:

http://the-horror.com/podcastgen/feed.xml

If you want to stream the podcasts online, you can do so here:

http://the-horror.com/podcastgen/?p=home

[Dot50Cal]

We are now up on iTunes So search for RPD Dispatch and we should show up. If you guys want to write a review, that would be awesome

For any Zune users, I'm submitting us now.

[James]

For any Zune users, I'm submitting us now.

Surely I'm not the only one? >_>

[randomwab]

Surely I'm not the only one? >_>

A Zune James? Really? ~deletes from friends list~

[James]

A Zune James? Really? ~deletes from friends list~

(I despise Apple)

[Carnivol]

Bet it came with a gamer score somehow...

Getting Started
"Listened to 1 song - 1g"

Gettin' jiggy
"Listened to 2 songs by different artists - 1g"

Gettin' groovy
"Listened to 3 songs from different albums - 1g"

Gettin' sum
"Listened to 4 songs from different decades - 1g"

Almost at the party
"Listened to 5 songs - 1g"

The Party's Started!
"Listened to 10 songs - 5g"

Music Expert!
"Listened to 100 songs - 40g"

Maestro!
"Listened to 500 songs - 50g"

Music Guru!
"Listened to 1000 songs - 150g"

Y'arr!
"Listened to 2500 unique songs - 250g"

Dacapo!
"Skipped back a track - 20g"

Next!
"Skipped a track - 20g"

Some of this and some of that!
"Made a track list containing 3 different genres - 10g"

I WUB TAHT SONG!
"Listened to the same track 5 times in a row - 50g"

Need a new battery!
"Listened to over 5 hours of music - 20g"

The 60s
"Listened to over 5 hours of music from the 60s - 20g"

The 70s
"Listened to over 5 hours of music from the 70s - 20g"

The 80s
"Listened to over 5 hours of music from the 80s - 20g"

The 90s
"Listened to over 5 hours of music from the 90s - 20g"

Got a spare battery?
"Fully charged the battery more than 5 times in a week - 50g"

Can't stop the music!
"Listened to over 24 hours worth of music - 50g"

Party meister!
"Used the Zune as a bottle opener at a party - 50g"

Radio without an antenna
"Subscribe to at least 5 podcasts - 50g"

Y2K9
"Made it into the year 2009 - 100g"

[randomwab]

Bet it came with a gamer score somehow...

Shit, I just ordered one. I mean, had I been using a Zune instead of my Sony MP3, I'd have full achievements by now!

[Project Omega]

Subscribed to the podcast on iTunes and left a good short review

[NURD]

Um, Could I have an explanation as to what I am supposed to do? I have no Idea how to use this.

[Carnivol]

Um, Could I have an explanation as to what I am supposed to do? I have no Idea how to use this.

In the iTunes music store, you can now search for "RPD Dispatch" (or just browse for it in the podcast section) and you should find it.

There should be a button when you select it that lets you "subscribe", this will make iTunes automatically download the latest episode.

Alternatively, you can (in the main iTunes window) click on "Advanced", then select "Subscribe to Podcast" and then finally past this link: http://www.the-horror.com/rss/rpd_dispatch.xml into the window that opens and select Ok. It should now appear under "Podcasts" in your iTunes interface

Other music applications that supports subscribing to podcasts via RSS feeds should also be able to add that URL to its subscription list


I guess we might write a tiny "how to/help section" for this to put up on the front page (there are currently some stuff being changed "under the hood" to the main site at the moment)

[James]

There *was* a feed submitted to the Zune Marketplace as well, I am not sure if they've received it yet - the system doesn't seem, well, finished so I am not sure if they will confirm with me or not if it's gone live.

[Dot50Cal]

Can anyone check the Zune Marketplace for us now?

[Stu]

Bumping for some love to the RSS feed link. Have added it to my mobile and it works a charm, would be handy for when i can't get to the PC to download the latest podcasts.

[RiKeSaN]

Hello guys, this is my first post here.

I'm having an issue with this feed. When I add it to iTunes, it shows this message:



I created a thread on Apple's Discussions Forum, here is the link:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2662326

I was told that this problem could only be solved by you, the ones who can edit the feed.

Here's the answer I got:

Though your episodes can be played in a browser by using the link from the feed, or entering the URL, none of them plays when subscribing in iTunes.

The URL of the latest episode is
video.the-horror.com/RPD Dispatch - Episode 13.mp3

which contains spaces. Spaces are not allowed in a URL: a browser will deal with this by substituting the code %20. but iTunes can't cope.

You should either rename all the files without spaces, and amend the feed to match, or go through the feed replacing the spaces with %20, thus:

http://video.the-horror.com/RPD%20Di...isode%2013.mp3

I would like to know if you guys could repair this issue.

Thank you very much.

[Dot50Cal]

Updated OP with our new RSS feed generator. This makes things insanely easier on me and won't break the RSS feed when I put in some minor character that the feed doesn't like. It also lets you stream us from a little flash player thats installed.

RiKeSaN, I've also fixed that issue.