FeedForAll for all your RSS feeds and needs

Over the Bank Holiday weekend, I decided to finally register my copy of FeedForAll, a simple tool for creating RSS feeds and collect together all the audio content I've uploaded on to my blog in the last two years so that it would be easier to access and you could subscribe to it in iTunes. 

To create a podcast feed using FeedForAll follow these instructions:

Click Feed/New and fill in the Title, Description and Link to your blog (including the http:// part of the address).

Click the Items tab and enter the Title, Description and Link to the post which includes your first recording (not a link to the mp3 itself). Click on the Show Date and Time Clicker icon and select the date the recording was made or published.

Click the Optional tab and click in the box marked Enclosure. In the URL box, paste in the full link to your mp3 file (including the http:// part of the address). If you do not know what this is, right click the link to your mp3 file on your blog and select Properties, you'll see the link next to Address (URL). In the Length box, enter the exact size of the file in bytes. To find this out, right click the file on your computer and select Properties again and look next to Size.

Click Feed/Save As to save your feed (e.g podcast_rss.xml) and carry on adding new items as above. When you've finished. Upload the xml file you've created on to your blog.

To do this In Typepad, click the Control Panel tab and click the Files tab. In the Upload a New File box, click the Browse button, go to C:\Program Files\NotePage\FeedForAll\Feeds find your podcast feed and select it. Click Open and click the Upload button. Wait a few seconds for your file to upload.

Type in the address of your new podcast feed into your browser and press return.

e.g http://joedale.typepad.com/podcast_rss.xml

All the information you've added to your feed should then appear like this if you have IE7.

e.g.

To subscribe in iTunes, click on the Advanced Menu and Subscribe to Podcast, paste in your feed and click OK. Easy.

You could also paste the code into a Podcast Pickle player and let others listen straight from your blog.

Unfortunately, FeedForAll does cost £25, but it does give you complete control over how you customise your feed. A free alternative is Feedburner which can also tell you how many subscribers you have. Have a look at this link for more info. 

Comments

[Jonathan Lecun]

A great guide Joe to the program. I've used this program to create RSS feeds for my one-to-one students lesson audio files so that they can listen to them again.

But I never really got round to the itunes part, which was a bit daunting, but you've made it very clear how that's done and I'll use this as a guide when the time comes to itunes.

That audio interview you just posted was very interesting too and the Podium program looks very simple to use.

[Joe Dale]

Hi Jonathan,

Glad you liked the post and interview. Creating your own RSS feed can seem daunting. There's been a definite learning curve for me on finding out how to do this (Mark Pentleton has been very helpful in this matter), but it seems that FeedForAll is an easy solution and gives you complete control which is good.

:)