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>"The technological underpinning of podcasting is entirely RSS." Can you elaborate on this? How are they related?
by bogomipz 9y ago
>"The technological underpinning of podcasting is entirely RSS."
Can you elaborate on this? How are they related?
- pbourke 9y agoPodcasts are audio files syndicated over RSS
- bogomipz 9y agoI see, I did not know this, I guess I never bothered to look. Thanks.
- freehunter 9y agoiTunes doesn't host any podcast files. You (as a podcast host) provide them an RSS link and when an end-user subscribes to your podcast, iTunes merely grabs your RSS feed and has the end-user's phone download the latest episode from your servers. The episodes are stores and distributed from the podcast host's own server. The podcast app is just an RSS feed reader.
- redwall_hp 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_enclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_enclosure Podcasts are just RSS feeds with a tag that points to an audio file. RSS and Podcasting have a lot of common lineage with the guys who invented blogging. As that Wikipedia page states, the enclosure tag was added by Dave Winer, of Scripting News, which is the oldest continuously operated blog...arguably dating back to 1994.