Podcast Maker

Hi everyone,
After upgrading to Yosemite, Podcast Maker 1.4.1 no longer works. There is no support for this product as the developer seems to be mia.
I was wondering if anyone has any other suggestions on software we can use to generate the rss feed?
Thanks!

RapidWeaver can make podcasts, though it's always been a bit basic - I don't know whether the new version recently issued is any better. There are very few other programs which can do this - unfortunately Podcast Maker is very good but hasn't been updated for some years now and hasn't been reliable either.
WordPress can make decent feeds but is difficult to use - it causes more problems asked about here than all the other methods put together, almost always because the person using it is mis-using it. There are several online services which make the feed for you, though they give you less control and in some cases are impossible to move away from should you want to. Blogger, Podbean and Feedburner are free (the last-named may be in danger of being discontinued); Libsyn is paid-for but has good support. Soundcloud can do it but often produces unsatisfactory results.
You could in theory hand-write the feed, but it is an unforgiving process and even a tiny mistake can wreck the feed. My page here:
http://wilmut.uk/pc
includes a basic sample feed you can use as a template if you want to try it. Note particularly that you must use a plain text editor - TextEdit can be used but it must not be in the default Rich Text mode, and you can't use an ordinary word processor because it will clutter the feed with formatting garbage and render it unusable.

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I've recently started making podcasts for a radio station I help out on. Intially what I have done is used Garage Band and iWeb to create a podcast page/feed on my mobile me site. However on submitting this to itunes I could not get the main podcast art to display.
However I then discovered podcast maker, that simplifys the whole process and is generally much more podcast friendly.
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You do not need any of those apps to manage your domain.sites2.
1) You can double-click on it to start iweb.
2) Domain.sites2 does not have to be named as such, they can be named anything as long as you keep .sites2 extension:
http://11mystics.com/blog/2007/09/08/how-do-you-manage-multiple-domain-files-for -iweb/
3) You can start a new Domain.sites2 with a simpe AppleScript, see my posts here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6007612
on #3, if it is too much to understand; you can email me at hac<dot>le@sbcglobal<dot>net , I'll send you the AppleScript.
Making a new domain.sites2 is quite important, and a few of you here know that you can not merge your domain.sites2.
And the reason is iWeb2 is loaded with UUIDs and when you duplicate an existing domain.sites2, you will have problems.
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I think I may have to look into a redirect line in my htaccess file so that direct loads of my mp3's route through my website page.
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I have been using Podcast Maker to upload my podcasts (The Hottoycast).
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Forgetting how it's done I just created a new episode not realising that it would over run the existing lot.
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I also say that in my Itunes Episode one came down.
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Eamon

Changing the category simply changes the labelling in the feed, much the same as changing data in the subtitle or summary. It won't have any other effect.

Alternative software to Podcast Maker, any suggestions?

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It shows in your product details that you are running iOS 4.3.3
The option for OTA updates (Over the Air) ONLY appear when you are already running iOS 5.
This means that any device running iOS prior to 5 will need to update via iTunes on your computer, so just plug it in, it will prompt you to update.
P.S. Make sure you let it back up, and then transfer your purchases before you update, or you may potentially lose all your data.

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I have a similar setup and after some initial problems, I can tell you that syncing now works for me.
1st-gen iPod touch iOS 3.1.3
iTunes 10.5
Mac OS X 10.6.8
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So I took the advice in the other thread and downloaded the full iTunes installer. I deleted four com.apple.iTunes[xxx].plist files from ~/Library/Preferences/, ran the installer, repaired permissions, and rebooted. To my amazement, when I launched iTunes and plugged in my iPod, it and its previous backups were recognized, and a fresh backup and sync ran without any problems.

Podcast makes my iPod crash!

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my 80gb silver iPod crashes on iQuiz too.
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Do iTunes podcasts make my Mac 'TOO FULL'.

My MacMini disk is TOO FULL.
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Hi Roger,
I made the change the day you posted the reply to this post. So it's been 5 days already...
The URLs I copied into the original post came from Podcast Maker, I just pasted directly from the software. The new URL/feed is the io.creative one - the address is on my iDisk which I got with my Mac Me.com account.
Podcast Maker allows to feed directly to the 'sites' folder in the iDisk, does it automatically. The old URL feed is on a friend's company server. But now that I have this iDisk I thought best to move over the podcast to there.
Thanks for the example. So i paste it into the top line of the channel section in the old .xml file? Do I leave the original feed address in the file or replace it with the new one? This area is not very clear in the Apple docs online.
I have both podcasts at the Lemonz website
New Feed:
http://www.lemonzdream.com/podcasts/?feed=http://homepage.mac.com/io.creative/Po d-stories/podstories.xml
Old Feed:
http://www.lemonzdream.com/podcasts/?feed=http://www.larasethno.com/podcast/pods tories.xml
Of course at present the new feed is not yet on the iTunes directory.
Cheers, Marc

Looking for Chapter Tool Beta or other app to create enhanced podcasts

Hi all. I am looking at creating enhanced podcasts. On Google I found a mysterious app that Apple has apperantly created - "Chapter Tool Beta". However, all links to this app are dead. Any idea what happened to that app?
Also, what are some alternatives? Garage Band doesn't work well, as in this project I am working on, we have to show a screen shot, then in the next "frame" same screen shot, but with a highlight box over an area. And, it's hard to line up images in GB. Any ideas? Thanks,

I think the Chapter Tool is now dead - though someone did ask about this a few weeks back: it might be worth searching for the thread to see whether anyone could help.
I would suggest you look at Podcast Maker: this will take your pre-existing mp3 files and add chapters and images to make an m4a 'enhanced podcast', and incorporate the information you give it into a feed file. It will then upload the podcast to your iDisk or other server and ping the iTunes Store for you. I've used it for three years now and found it very reliable.

Do I need to rebuild my podcast?

Hi, I am trying to post some weekly talks through a podcast using Blogger. I have been doing this for a little over a year now, and it has been working beautifully...up until a few weeks ago. Whether or not this has anything to do with transferring the feed to Google, I am not sure... I deleted a couple of the most recent episodes, thinking that would help, but it didn't.
Here are the basics for what you need to know:
a) The URL of the blog is http://www.umdnewman.blogspot.com
b) There are two URLs of that site's feed: http://www.umdnewman.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
and http://www.umdnewman.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
c) The URL of the FeedBurner feed is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/homilies3
d) I am using Blogger as my publishing software.
For whatever reason, if I try to subscribe to my podcast through
iTunes, it will let me subscribe, but my episodes will not come up. The new episodes appear and I can download the podcast episodes individually through the iTunes store, but if I try to refresh the podcast in the podcast library, it won't work. The little orange circle with two arrows appears next to the title of the podcast appears, but the arrows inside of it are not working, which tells me something isn't getting through. Eventually a little gray exclamation point shows up, and if I double click on it, it says "the network connection timed out."
In Feedburner, I click on the "Homilies" feed, and I click on the "Troubleshootize" tab. I click on the FeedMedic, and it gives me a list of the errors that have occurred in the past few weeks. Right now it says everything
is "ALL CLEAR", and yet I still can't get iTunes to work with it. Under "Actions you can take" it says to check the validity of the feed. I click on "Tips and Tools." If I click on the link for Originial Feed Validity, it says it's a valid Atom 1.0 feed, and then it says, "This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following
recommendations." It lists off 5 different things that look like theymight need fixing, but I really don't want to touch the XML, and even if I could touch it I don't know how to, as I really don't want to screw things up entirely and make a mistake that cannot be reversed.
So in that link it tells me the feed is valid, but if I click on
FeedBurner Feed Validity, it tells me that:
This feed does not validate. line 2, column 3169: Undefined item
element: app:edited (65 occurrences) [help]
.. spot.com'/></description><app:edited
xmlns:app="http://ww ...
^
And then it gives me three other things that could improve
interoperability. Am I just supposed to go through and delete all of
the times it says "app:edited"? If so, how do I do this?
Or do I just need to rebuild the podcast altogether? I have looked through some of the posts and I have seen mentionings of "Podcast Maker". Is this something I should switch to?
If someone could please assist me with this problem soon, I would
really appreciate it! Thanks!
Sincerely, Mary Hazuka

A podcast feed is a plain text file containing various tags: you can see an example on my page at
http://www.wilmut.org.uk/pc
You will notice that each tag begins a new line. Your feed does not have any line returns between the tags. This doesn't matter to iTunes or other feed readers, but if you put the URL into FireFox and choose View>Page Source you get a single very long line, which you have to scroll through: it makes it almost impossible to read. Other readers may wrap the feed to the page, but it's still difficult to find anything. However if you are using Blogger to make your feed you probably don't have any method of controlling this.
As to iTunes, I can't suggest anything. except that a reinstall won't affect your music library, which is stored separately from the application. You could try in the iTunes Forum.

Enhanced podcast (don't see chapter and pictures in podcast app on iphone or ipad)

hi people !
i create enhanced podcast, and try that podcast on itunes app on my pc. Everything work ok, except pictures but i know that this is bug with curent version of iTunes. Then i opet same m4a enhanced podcast in quicktime app on my pc, again everything work ok, i see chapters and i see pictures. Then i put same file on my server, i see that podcast in my podcast app on my iphone and ipad and when i stream it , i don't see pic and logo for chapters. when i scan my enhanced m4a podcast file i see that my file have: general,audio, video & menu section
in first general section
Format :
M4A
Codec ID :
M4A
this not working on podcast app on iphone or ipad !
then i scan enhanced podcast file downloaded from podcast app from my iphone with working chapters and pic made with garage band on mac by someone
and i see sections: general,audio, video and text 1 and text 2 sections (my not working does not have that last 2 , my last is menu section)
Format :
MPEG-4
Format profile :
Apple audio with iTunes info
Codec ID :
M4A
look at format profile ! it says Apple audio with iTunes info !
last thing is that i download from appstore app called Downcast, and try my enhanced podcast in that app wooow, everything work again ok when i stream, i see chapters i see pic. then at the end i download
Podreel — Enhanced podcast authoring tool for Windows
and try to build test podcast with that app, when i analyze enhanced podcast made with that app i see info say that podcast is made with garageband ??? this is fake tag made by podreel because podcast is made with podreel and not garage band, file made with podreel have this
Format :
MPEG-4
Format profile :
Apple audio with iTunes info
Codec ID :
M4A
again format profile is same like one from that working.
is podreel make fake tag because podcast app in iphone and ipad play exclusively enhnaced podcas make with garage band (podreel fake tag) or somebody know where I'm wrong. why my enhanced podcast don't play pics and chapters when is on iphone or ipad podcast app. i will write again that my file work on downcast app on iphone or ipad, work on pc in itunes, work on quicktime player etc work everywhere except there where i want to work in podcast app on iphone or ipad

hehe if somebody knows something this is def you Roger about first thing with seeing pic in itunes i think that i read all possible posts on web in last 7 days and nights and this is not working on my pc with control-click (Windows) but i don't care ! i wait for apple do magic bug fixing on new itunes version. And now about main problem. iOS devices are capable displaying chapter images because this is working right now with some podcast on my phone, i give you pic example iphone 4 iOS 6.1.2
in first pic you can see streaming podcast and chapters (little white dots on bar),second picture is first song with cover of single playing, and if you look close right from the clock zzz simbol is chapter logo, if you press it you will be see pic no.3 so this def working but working when you mad your podcast on mac with garage band ! that's why i write about format ids, tags etc
http://i.imgur.com/vy33H9y.png
http://i.imgur.com/g4P5iM1.png
http://i.imgur.com/zDOIwrC.png
i test your podcast episode 36 then episode 33 and 31 ! bad news my friend no chapters and no pictures only one main pic. but when i test your podcast in downcast app in my iphone wooo i see text i see your pic i see chapters i see everything. so that mean it's working everywhere like mine except iphone and ipad app and now we come to theory of garage band things tags in m4a files. you write that you have done all this in podcast maker not garage band. This is now real mistery to me !
i analyze your file here and you have in last section menu1 and menu 2 so maybe problem is somwhere around this, not in format id because you have ok format id like one that working ok

ITunes no longer syncs partially listened-to podcasts with my iPod

Hey, everyone. Since I downloaded the new iTunes 11, I've run into a problem with the podcasts I listen to. I subscribe to a bunch of podcasts, many of which are quite lengthy. For that reason, I often can't listen to the whole podcast in a single day. However, with the new iTunes, if I sync up my iPod while partway through a podcast, the iPod loses the partially listen-to podcast. It's as if the software assumes that since I've listened to part of it, I don't want it to sync anymore.
This is, of course, not the case. Is there a setting somewhere that I can toggle to make iTunes give me ALL my podcasts, regardless of whether I've listened to part of them (or even all all of them)? In short, I want my podcasts folder in iTunes to match what's on my iPod, not have iTunes make guesses about what I'll want.
Thanks for any help!

OK, figured this out and wanted to post the solution in case anyone else experiences this.
When you plug in your iPod, iTunes should start up automatically and sync. A button, "iPod," should appear at the top of the iTunes player, just below the search window. Click it (but not the eject symbol on it).
This brings up the iPod control settings. Along the top menu, there will be several submenu options: "Summary," "Music," "Movies," "TV Shows," "Podcasts," etc. Clock "Podcasts."
Here there will be a radio button next to "Sync Podcasts." Make sure that is checked. There is also a radio button next to "Automatically include..." Click that to on as well. Then, if you want iTunes to STOP deleting partially listened-to podcasts, make sure the options in the two drop-down menus say "all" and "all podcasts." Thus, you'll end up with: "Automatically include all episodes of all podcasts."
Hope this helps. The new iTunes is far from user-friendly.

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