Creating Podcasts for iTunes

Apple’s iTunes is the most popular audio and video podcast aggregator. If you want to add your feed to iTunes so that your content is available through the iTunes Music Store, you can adapt the RSS feed that you created with the instructions on pages 379385 by including iTunes special elements to describe your data.

You’ll first prepare your RSS feed for iTunes, and then add the individual iTunes elements (as described on the following pages).

Figure 25.12. By specifying the iTunes namespace, you enable the RSS feed to include the special iTunes elements—and still validate.

To prepare your RSS feed for iTunes ...

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