@help , @sod , and @manton , I am planning on using Micro.Blog to host a podcast, but not use microblog for the enclosures. I have my own CDN the files will be at. I will just be embedding them in Micro.Blog and using it as a place for show notes and extra content. My question is, I need to have a second XML page that can be accessed by the podcast index.

I've tried to just upload it with a custom feed. But the blog XML takes over every time. even when they are named differently. I guess I could host that file elsewhere also but would like to keep it with the site.

Is this possible? or does it make sense?

Thanks.

@AoW Do you need that custom feed, or could you rely on the one that Micro.blog generates for you? For example, make a new post for an episode and include the audio like this:

<audio controls="controls" src="https://your.cdn.network.example.com/episode-42.mp3" preload="metadata"></audio>

The podcast.xml template should identify that post as a podcast episode and include it in the feed.

@sod I need the custom feed. There are a lot of custom tags that are specific to each episode, I use a tool to build the xml file. I just need a place to put it so it can be accessed.

@AoW Aha, that makes sense. You can create a custom theme for your blog and add the file that way. It's not too intuitive, but once you edit a custom theme, you can create a new file by pressing New Template.

When asked to provide a folder and file name, enter content/podcast-feed.xml (you can name it whatever you want, but the content/ prefix should be there). Then paste the content of your XML file into the text area and hit Update Template. The feed will be available at https://your.podcast.example.com/podcast-feed.xml.

@sod That is exactly what I needed. Now I can just paste new content everytime it updates.

@help thanks, it’s all the custom tags that are the big thing for me. I have to manually generate the xml file every time. Just needed a place to put it.