With Blogsite, it's easy to add podcasts to your blog posts that can be listened to and also subscribed to through your blog's RSS feed. Blogsite supports Link Properties; a model for creating lists of links that are part of a blog post. Link Properties include many attributes such as title, synopsis, and URL. In addition to these basic attributes, optional mime type and size can be added for rich media files that your post may reference, such as a podcast or video file. The optional attributes are used to display files such as podcasts that can be played from the blog display, or downloaded in the weblog's RSS or Atom feed. Blogsite will automatically create Podcast-compatible RSS enclosures for any link property for which the MIME type has been specified. You may also include a length value that specifies the size, in bytes, of the referenced file. However, this is optional. When a MIME type is specified with no length, Blogsite uses -1 for the length (which means "unknown" to podcast clients).
When you create a link property with a MIME type that begins with "audio" (e.g., "audio/mp3"), the link icon (displayed in a blogsite post) changes from the chain link icon to a laudio speaker icon, indicating a podcast. To add a podcast to a blog post, follow these steps: - Edit a blog item that you want to include a podcast in.
- Scroll down to see the New Link... button. Select this button.
- Fields will appear to add a title, summary, and URL. Enter appropriate information about the podcast in each of these fields. The URL will contain the address of the actual podcast audio file.
- Select the Enclosure/Podcast Options button below the Link Properties fields.
- Enter "audio/mp3" in the Type (MIME) field. Leave the Length field blank.
- Click the OK button.
- Click the Save button to save the blog post.
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