Replace the tagesschau-Feed you're offering

[Lena-Maria]

hey everyone, I’m a partner manager with tagesschau | German News Media and we got complaints concerning our podcast on antennapod.

People say you’re embedded the videoversion of our show. The problem with that: The show stops as soon as you disable the screen.

Could you please replace the feed with this one? It’s audio only and should work just fine.

tagesschau (Audio-Podcast)

As I don’t have access to an android device, I can’t do it myself or check it unfortunately.

THANK you for your help

[ByteHamster]

We use Apple Podcasts for our search function, and you offer both your audio and video feed through Apple Podcasts. So, just like on Apple Podcasts, users can choose between both feeds. If you want to make this more clear, I would suggest to rename the video feed on Apple Podcasts to clearly indicate that it is video, and the audio feed that it is clearly audio. Currently the video version doesn’t indicate in its title that it is video.

[keunes]

Hi @Lena-Maria
Thank you for taking the effort to reach out to us via our forum!

To be fair, the audio versions do already indicate they’re audio. But indeed, specifying ‘video’ in the video feed wouldn’t hurt (if the same feed isn’t used also for other systems like TVs where mentioning ‘video’ is not desired).

It would probably also help to add the following tags in the audio and video versions respectively:

<link rel="alternate"
  href="https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/sendung/tagesschau_20_uhr/podcast-ts2000-video-100~podcast.xml"
  type="application/rss+xml"
  title="Video"/>

<link rel="alternate"
  href="https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/sendung/tagesschau_20_uhr/podcast-ts2000-audio-100~podcast.xml"
  type="application/rss+xml"
  title="Audio"/>

More information about this tag: https://podlove.org/podlove-alternate-feeds/

Kind regards

[Lena-Maria]

Thank you for your replies. It’s good to know you have both feeds in your platform. I wasn’t able to check. But as @keunes reasoned: We decided to write (Audio) only because the Video-Feeds are used for video plattforms as well, where (video) would be confusing. Well, there will be new cover soon… may they’ll help
THANK YOU!

[ghast]

You can also look at the the revised Standard for Podcast-Feeds at GitHub - Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace: A wholistic rss namespace for podcasting

AlternateEnclosures help you if you have different versions of the same episode like audio and video or different codecs for example.

Labeling feeds with podcast-namespace/docs/tags/medium.md at main · Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace · GitHub can also help apps to distinguish between several media types.

In general, check the enhancement of this namespace to find a few useful items for your service.