We are moving our website to Joomla. We are going to be using JBS for podcasting & managing bible study resources. I'm wondering what is the best way to migrate our current podcast feed (or if we should...).

Our current feed is hosted at audio.cbcneenah.org. You can check out the RSS there. We have ~250 sermons on that feed. Besides moving to a new website, we would like to move all those sermons to the new server (faster & cheaper bandwidth).

We have discussed a number of migration strategies. What we want to avoid is breaking everyone's (over 200 people) RSS feeds. We have discussed using url rewrites so the old feed will still work.

The other formidable task is creating a study for each of these sermons. We have some information we can pull from the ID3 tags, but for the most part, we have to pull up old Word documents and copy/paste information on the sermon to create a Study.

Would it be best to archive the old feed? If we do that, can we still add them to JBS as Studies? Is there a way to append the old feed to the new podcast in JBS and gradually add the older sermons as studies?

Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks

What you can do, is set up your joomla website with JBS. Then, use the BibleStudy import component to import all your files into the database. Once you have all of your studies imported, you can use the podcast plugin to create the podcast for your studies.

I'm not sure how podcasts work, but can't you just swap the feeds once the JBS podcast is up and running?

I've just put in the download section a new version of the Import component, which has more control over the Id3Tags, you can try it out

joomlabiblestudy.org/invisible-downloads...ory/3-component.html

Thats a tar.gz...will that install or do I need a .zip?

sorry, I re-uploaded it as a zip. I'm not sure if the joomla installer handles the other archive format well...