Show notes next to each episode?

[Marilynfan]

I was wondering how I get my show notes to show up under my listing here at podcastalley (My Marilyn). My 2 episodes are listed but there is no comments next to them like I see other people have.

Melinda
http://marilynmonroe.ca/podcast

[theFerf]

well the first problem you have right now is that your server is not responding :)

the technical description though is this:
Podcast Alley pulls that text you are talking about from the <description> of each of your shows that you produce. depending on what blogging software/script you are using (if you are using one) this is different. Most should allow a place to add some text, show notes, or a description for each podcast.

if you are using dircaster (correct me if im wrong) you may not have the option of adding this description. If you fill in this description field, Podcast Alley will show that data on the site.

[barry]

And I describe how to do it in my blog here

http://www.nothingtodeclare.com/stories.php?story=05/04/19/0538021

Basically you take the modified dircaster from my page, and then for each show, you create a (file).txt that has the same base name as the mp3, and the new dircaster automatically uses the contents of that file as the description.

-barry
blog: http://nothingtodeclare.com
podcast: http://nothingtodeclare.com/podcast/dircaster.php

[Marilynfan]

Thanks Barry! I am going to give your suggestion a try as I am using dircaster. I really appreciate the help.

Hmmm...not sure why the server was not responding earlier. I haven't had any problems with my hosting service before. Hopefully, the bandwidth will hold out for quite some time yet.

[Marilynfan]

Well, I hope I did it right. I just pasted the code from your site onto my dircaster.php and uploaded the 2 text files with the show notes from my podcasts. Now, will the descriptions for these previous shows still show up on podcast alley or will it only work for any new episodes I post. I'm not sure how to test if it is working or not.

[Marilynfan]

Well, it is definately not working. On my listing on the alley now my episodes are showing up at all and the error on the page says "XML error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 2" so i am going to undo whatever I did and wait for some clarification on exactly what I am supposed to modify on my dircaster.php file.

[theFerf]

You are missing the BOLD stuff below. Not sure how your feed is setup, but feedburner is not picking up your title now...so close :)

<item>
<title>This is my Title<title/>
<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/MyMarilynPodcast?m=2</link>
-<description>
*New books to check out (Marilyn Handbook and Evening with Marilyn) *Prince Rainier of Monaco and his tie to MM? *Marilyn Event in Niagara Falls Ontario on April 28 *Marilyn Song: Kiss from the Niagara soundtrack *Kelly Clarkson compares Marilyn to Paris Hilton *Today in MM History Person to Person interview
</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:29:20 -0600</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.marilynmonroe.ca/podcast/RSS/MM-04-08-05.mp3" length="21019683" type="audio/mpeg"/>
</item>

[Ian]

Thanks to you Barry, I now have show descriptions! Yay!