We've been using a script to automatically generate a podcast system from the metadata in the MP3, meaning we can update the RSS feed really quickly, but the information still needs to be manually entered into BibleStudy.
Given BibileStudy can generate an XML stream, is it possible to reverse the process and read an iTunes compatible XML stream into BibleStudy?
(expecting a no, but would be great if we could)

Hi Phil,

While technically possible it would of course have to be programmed in. Creating the xml is actually quite manual, writing text strings and combining with results from a db query - no magic sadly

This does sound like a great feature we could consider - tell me a little more about how you get your RSS and how you might envision JBS importing the info.

I know some of our developers have talked about reading info directly from mp3 files, which is what sounds like your system does.

Tom

We use the excellent DirCaster PHP script which generates:

<item>
<title>podcast.MP3</title>
<link>
biblestudy.com/podcast.MP3
</link>
<author> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (BibleStudy Office)</author>
<description>rpodcast.MP3 -</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
<enclosure url="biblestudy.com/podcast.MP3" length="34119262" type="audio/mpeg"/>
<itunes:author/>
<itunes:summary/>
<itunes:subtitle/>
<itunes:keywords>
Podcast, audio, sermons
</itunes:keywords>
<itunes:duration>00:47:23</itunes:duration>
<guid isPermaLink="false">
biblestudy.com/podcast/dircaster.php/podcast.MP3#1320668107
</guid>
</item>

So from that you have the title, author, published date (this is based on the date associated with the file, so if it's uploaded on the day fine, else I use Filezilla and tick keep the date) and obviously the link to the file.
iTunes also displays "extra detail" we enter, such as the bible verses, though that doesn't look to appear in the XML code.
Thanks for the swift reply, with this system we can currently create an RSS feed from the product (MP3) and could use that on the website, but Biblestudy has so many extra features it would be good to have that automatically up to date too.

I got to thinking about this - why not import to BibleStudy straight from the mp3? Then you could use JBS's podcast to generate the xml.

A colleague wrote such an import tool a while back for Joomla 1.5.

You can see it here: JBS Import Component

I haven't tested it at all on Joomla 1.7, but it is quite possible to either 1) use an updated component like this, or 2) we could bring that functionality right into JBS 7.x (not for the next version, but 7.1.x).

Tom