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

[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.

[Ian]

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