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General discussion

Podcast feed beta test

Feb 28, 2006 6:08AM PST

Hey folkses,

Anyone who doesn't mind experimenting, is encouraged to help out our Product Manager, Brooke Furey with a new way of tracking the Buzz Out Loud podcast. Just use the XML link below in your favorite podcatcher and let us know if it works by replying to this thread.

Here's her note:

"OK, here is the final final test of the tracking (I hope):

http://www.cnet.com/i/pod/test_tracking4.xml

Please post to forum to solicit testers. I tested on Juice, iTunes, and Doppler with no problem, but you never know.

One note: This is different and totally separate from the CDN test which resulted in some failures."

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I'll play
Feb 28, 2006 6:09AM PST

Is this for the DRM'd version Wink

I'm loading it into Juice now.

Is it safe to unsubscribe to the old feed?

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Don't unsubscribe old feed...
Feb 28, 2006 6:44AM PST

Unless you have it subscribed somewhere else. This feed is only for testing purposes. I think the current subscription link will remain the same, we'll just shift the underlying code into that feed.

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(NT) (NT) Ok, cool.
Feb 28, 2006 6:45AM PST
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It works
Feb 28, 2006 6:45AM PST

its downloading something or the other

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Just some weird thing
Feb 28, 2006 6:47AM PST

I tried downloading whatever it was, but it wouldn't download.

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Worked Here
Feb 28, 2006 8:58AM PST

I downloaded it using iTunes 6.03 on OS X 10.4.5. Worked fine. It was a bit slow, but I bet that's because the audio file is on a test server as well.

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worked for me
Feb 28, 2006 11:13AM PST

I havn't tried to listen to the file yet, though.

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works fine
Feb 28, 2006 11:32AM PST

the download was a bit slow like some one else said but it works great tom!

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Works on Bloglines
Feb 28, 2006 12:32PM PST

Worked for me on Bloglines.

Bruce

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iPodder
Feb 28, 2006 12:39PM PST

I haven't tried it with iPodder. However, I had problems with iPodder and these types of redirect URLs. The files would be saved with an underscore replacing the dot, making it the file name something like podcast_mp3. My MP3 player wouldn't recognize the file until I renamed it.

I've since upgraded to Juice, and I've had no problems.

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(NT) (NT) works on OS X net news wire
Feb 28, 2006 2:40PM PST
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(NT) (NT) Works with Juice
Feb 28, 2006 2:57PM PST
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Just fot giggles, I tried it with Google reader
Feb 28, 2006 3:18PM PST

It pulled in, played and downloaded from, fine. I didn't expect otherwise, as far as that was concerned.

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working fine
Feb 28, 2006 4:31PM PST

Hey good morning from new york. It's working fine here