You can generate a podcastable RSS 2.0 feed directly from a files collection.
When uploading i.e. mp3's , the ID3-metaindexer extracts and stores the tags from the files so that the metainfo plugin only needs to select them for transformation into rss 2.0.
1) upload some mp3's somewhere under /files/*
2) create/configure a collection from where to access the podcast (i.e. /podcast/)
3) create a .configxml for that collection
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- example .configxml for /podcast/ -->
<bxcms xmlns="http://bitflux.org/config">
<plugins>
<extension type="xml"/>
<file preg="#feed#"/>
<parameter name="xslt" type="pipeline" value="../standard/plugins/metainfo/podcast.xsl"/>
<parameter type="pipeline" name="output-mimetype" value="text/xml"/>
<plugin type="metainfo">
<parameter name="virtualDir" value="/files/audio/"/>
<parameter name="metaNs" value="bx:,id3,dc"/>
<parameter name="title" value="Podcast - All Tracks" type="xml"/>
<parameter name="desc" value="My favourite tracks" type="xml"/>
<parameter name="link" value="http://yourblog.freeflux.net/podcast/" type="xml"/>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</bxcms>
The above configuration will match for http://yourblog.freeflux.net/podcast/feed.xml and takes the files from /files/audio/ (virtualDir Parameter). The metaNS Parameter specifies from what namespaces to select the properties from, whereas title,desc and link are optional and can be used to override the Title,Description and Link values of the rss channel.
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