Does your podcast client support RSS?

[scripting]

This came up in a thread on Twitter earlier today.

If you use a podcast client, can you enter the URL of an RSS feed?

It's a pretty simple thing, but I've never thought of it that way because I've used my own podcast client from the beginning of podcasting. Never used iTunes, or anything else.

So if you use Stitcher, iTunes, Overcast, Outcast or whatever, is there a way to enter an RSS url to subscribe?

[andrewshell]

I use Overcast and it allows me to add an RSS feed. However, it seems picky. When I add http://scripting.com/rss.xml it doesn't currently find anything. It just sits there with a spinner. My hypothesis is that it's (incorrectly) requiring titles in the feed.

[danderson3]

Downcast does

[jsavin]

I'm subscribed to Scripting News in Overcast among others, and it's working. I got the subscription via an OPML import quite a while ago though, and not directly via URL, so not sure if there's a bug there or not.

Cheers, -Jake

On Mar 18, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Andrew Shell notifications@github.com wrote:

I use Overcast and it allows me to add an RSS feed. However, it seems picky. When I add http://scripting.com/rss.xml it doesn't currently find anything. It just sits there with a spinner. My hypothesis is that it's (incorrectly) requiring titles in the feed.

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[FTWynn]

Pocket casts seems to pass. Scripting.com/rss.xml pulls in only the podcasts.

[jevdemon]

BeyondPod on Android supports this. Seems strange that podcast clients wouldn't support RSS. If there's no RSS feed it's just a recording sitting on a server somewhere - not a podcast.

[kevinmarks]

AntennaPod on android does. Also unmung.com does.

[andysylvester]

PocketCasts on Android supports adding RSS feeds. However, I have noticed that it is not picking podcasts from Scripting News. Looking at the feed, I see that the podcast file extension is m4a, it may be that PocketCasts does not accept that as a podcast audio file (it would be interesting to know if this behavior occurs on the Apple version of PocketCasts).

[benzado]

Apple's Podcast app on iOS allows you to enter a URL. I've successfully added the Scripting News feed (http://scripting.com/rss.xml), but it doesn't show any episodes currently.

[benzado]

Since nobody has mentioned it; the desktop iTunes app also allows you to subscribe by URL. I don't normally use it, but I just tried subscribing to Scripting News and, unlike the iOS app, it does display two episodes! It uses the file names as titles.

[scripting]

I like what iTunes does there. Smart.