To enclose or not to enclose

Here's an update on the feed and the enclosure-tags of Feedburner. The problem of the BlackMylar Europe feed has been solved. Problem was that Feedburner didn't recognize the mp3-file in the post and therefore didn't ad the enclosure-tags in the feed. Now this problem is solved.

The server on which the file was published seemed to be the problem. At first we published the audio file at garageband.com. But Garageband.com doesn't provide a link directly to the file. Instead the link it is using returns HTML that then launch a player in them that point to the actual audio file... And thus Feedburner didn't see it as an mp3 but just as another link to a HTML file.

So now we finally succeeded in uploading the file to the free service of ourmedia.org which we talked about yesterday at BlackMylar Europe. Ourmedia.org stores the file and provides a direct link to the audio file. And now Feedburner does recognize it and does add the enclosure-tag in the feed.

Also we can now be found and heard on the Podsafe Music Network. Next step will be adding the BlackMylar EuroCast to iTunes, so y'all can subscribe to the podcast.

Now, all the technical stuff is out of the way, we can concentrate on making the first actual BlackMylar Eurocast number 001. The trial podcast we made earlier this week was solely intended to test all the technical issues.

Now the fun can begin....