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meloncholy / mixcloud-rss

MixCloud to RSS converter
http://bits.meloncholy.com/mixcloud-rss
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Podcast RSS #1

Closed iBobik closed 11 years ago

iBobik commented 11 years ago

Could you add audio files to the RSS feed to allow podcasts downloaders (like iTunes, iCatcher, ...) to download recordings?

meloncholy commented 11 years ago

No, I'm afraid I can't. The MixCloud to RSS converter uses MixCloud’s embeds, which are little Flash apps. It’s not possible to get the audio stream directly as MixCloud doesn’t supply it.

I know this rather limits their usefulness; you could email the guys at MixCloud about this, but (for the reasons they give here) it’s unlikely they’ll change their minds.

I wish I could fix this as you're not the first person to ask about it, but I can't. Sorry!

monpac commented 10 years ago

They aren't necesarrily Flash anymore as they have added Html5 to their embeded objects. Would their be any way of extracting that audio now for podcasts players to download?

Pages like Offliberty.com can download mixcloud podcasts, although I can't think of a way to do all this process automatically. Sorry for bothering though.

meloncholy commented 10 years ago

Ooh, you're right! Thanks for pointing that out. Though it still uses a Flash app to play the audio (this seems to be the way to go right now -- SoundCloud does the same thing). I'm currently updating this project to make it shinier (Bootstrap 3, Backbone, Dust, caching of feeds), so I'll definitely see if I can use the new iframe embeds.

The main issue here is not so much that it's impossible to get the audio stream directly (despite, um, what I said in my comment above :) -- like most sites, Mixcloud uses HTTP streaming and I don't think I'm revealing any big secrets by saying it's pretty easy to get the audio via DevTools -- but more that I don't want to piss off the guys at Mixcloud and get my site blocked. I'd love them to offer a download option, but until they do I can't really do so either. Sorry.