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Enclosures not happening

I’ve been playing with MTEnclosures some more on this server. I tried setting up the new MT on a different server, and I still can’t get it to create XML with enclosures for MP3 files. It will pick up the images if I don’t exclude them, but not any sound files. No error messages, just no MP3 or asf enclosure tags. I’m guessing the Pod people aren’t happy with Microsoft ASF audio files, even though they are much smaller? Much of my original material are captured asf webcasts and the transcoding to MP3 will bloat their size and lower thier quality. But you have to broadcast what people can hear.

I’ve searched for a tool to create the RSS file outside of MoveableType, and so far the only options are PHP4 which doesn’t work on either server, or Mac software, which I don’t have a platform for. Or commercial nonsense for Windows. All of the websites about Podcasting for windows actually have the sequence:
step1 record your audio files (entire screens worth of stuff)
step2 “somehow get an enclosure into your RSS feed”

Useless tutorial

This is less than acceptable. The Unix tutorials are just as vague, plenty on creating the audio, nothing on creating the XML files.

I need a non-Macintosh, non-commercial, non-PHP application for creating the XML files!

About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Physics, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, Cisco CCNA tutor, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to professional writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Discovery science show on radio 2SER 107.3Fm Mondays at 9am in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Discovery sound archives.