SMS question: How does one get the speaker of a sermon in the SMS to appear
in iTunes's Artist field for a podcast?

I have the same problem. Anyone can help us?

Guys,

I added this to my template setup to make this work:


EDIT: Just realized that doesn't really help all that much for several speakers. Back to the drawing board.

Christoph

Hi,

Just added our sermons to iTunes and hit the same problem. We have different preachers and it would be really helpful to be able to populate the artist field correctly from the information within the SMS.

Tried to find a template that drives the xml output for iTunes and can't find that in my install?

Anyone managed to find a fix for this yet? Or any thoughts on how the xmml output can be customised to include other information?

Thanks,

Sandy[/quote]

Sandy,

Still not sure on how to do that, but the XML stuff is in the wec_api extension, not in wec_sermons. That may give you a starting point.

Christoph

Christoph,

Many thanks for this, but unfortunately I have still drawn a blank.

In the wec_api extension the static setup that is included in the template seems to set up the item array which includes:

And then item_author is defined as:


And the template that it uses called rss_itunes includes:


But I cannot seem to find a way of actually populating the ###ITEM_AUTHOR### in the template. So I am now stuck.

The only compromise I can think of is to inclue the preacher under the iTunes Summary in the SMS Resource record.

Any other ideas anyone?

Sandy