1-Click Podcast Subscriptions For The Microsoft Zune
Oct 25th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: How to Podcast, iPods & Portable Media PlayersPodcaster, mobilecasting guru and Zune Podcast Programming Manager Rob Greenlee has announced 1-click podcast subscriptions for the Zune portable media player.
The 1-click process will launch the Zune Marketplace software and add the podcast subscription to the user’s collection. The process will work best if the Zune user already has the new Zune Marketplace software loaded on a Windows PC. If not installed, the user will be prompted to download the software. The podcast feed does not need to be in the Zune Marketplace for the link to work.
How To Set Up 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions For The Zune
Create the 1-click link URL using this format:
zune://subscribe/?PodcastTitle=PodcastRSSFeedURL
Here is a working example:
zune://subscribe/?wallstrip=http://feeds.feedburner.com/wallstrip
In this example, PodcastTitle is wallstrip and PodcastFeedURL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/wallstrip
Spaces between words in the PodcastTitle will work fine.
Here is Microsoft’s official hyperlink image for use for Zune 1-click subscription process:
“We are building a great podcast service offering,” adds Greenlee, “that should more than fill the needs of podcasters and Zune 4, 8, 30 and 80 users.”
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I’ve just added a button to my Podcast Ping podcast (at http://podcastping.blogspot.com) and I’m having a little trouble getting it to work with the software. It brings up the program but it doesn’t start the download. I’ve found the same problem with the example.
Done and Done!, Added this to our website at Atlantic Wave Radio, nice to have an easy way for Zune users to subscribe to the show. We try and support all the major ways to listen to our podcast.
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FYI – this protocol handler will not work with current Zune software. It will work with the forthcoming Zune software release. The release of the Zune 2 software is scheduled for November 13th so I would recommend waiting to publish this to your pages before then.