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I've spoken to the other three presenters, and they all think that we shouldn't have ?podcast in the URLs that the RSS feeds produce. As people know, I disagree, but it's not my show, it's all of ours. So, I've disabled it; I was wrong, and everyone else was right.

I hope this stops causing people problems; it will almost certainly cause anyone subscribed to the feed to see all the enclosures as being new, and possibly download them again. My apologies if that occurs; I can't think of a good way around that.

If there are further problems, post about them.

Aq.

Aq wrote:I've spoken to the other three presenters, and they all think that we shouldn't have ?podcast in the URLs that the RSS feeds produce. As people know, I disagree, but it's not my show, it's all of ours. So, I've disabled it; I was wrong, and everyone else was right.

Strictly speaking, you're still right, because the feed URL is still valid.....

Much appreciated. I look forward to downloading the next episode.

Aq wrote:I've spoken to the other three presenters, and they all think that we shouldn't have ?podcast in the URLs that the RSS feeds produce. As people know, I disagree, but it's not my show, it's all of ours. So, I've disabled it; I was wrong, and everyone else was right.

I hope this stops causing people problems; it will almost certainly cause anyone subscribed to the feed to see all the enclosures as being new, and possibly download them again. My apologies if that occurs; I can't think of a good way around that.

If there are further problems, post about them.

Aq.

As a devout Aqolyte, I'm pretty sure you were right and everyone else was wrong

While I agree that Aq was probably right, the question is why was he right this time?

Aq wrote:I've spoken to the other three presenters, and they all think that we shouldn't have ?podcast in the URLs that the RSS feeds produce. As people know, I disagree, but it's not my show, it's all of ours. So, I've disabled it; I was wrong, and everyone else was right.

I wrote a small Perl script that's called by bashpodder at the end of a run to rename the files. Since LUGRadio is not the only podcast (netcast/Zencast/apple-can-bite-my-pod-cast) that does this kind of thing, the script is still useful.

Gomer_X wrote:Since LUGRadio is not the only podcast (netcast/Zencast/apple-can-bite-my-pod-cast) that does this kind of thing, the script is still useful.

Isn't it? It would be good to get a list of those, given that nobody was able to think of any in Aqs defense on IRC.

mrben wrote:

Gomer_X wrote:Since LUGRadio is not the only podcast (netcast/Zencast/apple-can-bite-my-pod-cast) that does this kind of thing, the script is still useful.

Isn't it? It would be good to get a list of those, given that nobody was able to think of any in Aqs defense on IRC.

Here is a page with several feeds. The first feed is the one for which I wrote my script. It's a daily show and I got tired of manually renaming the files. They add something like "?SiteID=podcast" to the end of the URL, presumably to track podcasts versus direct download, etc.