You can get a playlist’s RSS feed to include it in your web page, subscribe from a podcasting app, or manually submit it to a podcast directory. To submit your podcast to specific platforms and directories, see Distribute on Apple Podcasts and Distribute on Other Podcast Platforms.
Omny Studio generates an RSS feed for each playlist and provides a fixed URL to access it. When you add new episodes, modify metadata, or make other changes to your playlist, Omny Studio also updates its RSS feed. Most podcast directories, platforms, and apps use the RSS feed to keep track of updates to your podcast.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is the industry-standard format for tracking podcasts. It includes information about your podcast's audio, video, and metadata. Omny Studio follows the RSS 2,00 and Podcasting 2,00 specifications.
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Get a Playlist’s Default RSS Feed
You can get a playlist's default RSS feed. The default feed is supported by most podcast platforms, apps, and web players.
This feed refers to either audio or video versions of your clips, but not both. You can choose which media format to include in the default RSS feed with Default enclosure URL in the playlist’s Settings tab. For details, see Set the Default Enclosure for Audio and Video.
Go to Manage Audio > Programs, then select the program you want.
Select Playlists and find the playlist.
Select Details.
In RSS feed, select Copy to clipboard.
Get an RSS Feed with Both Audio and Video
You can get an RSS feed for both audio and video by appending ?altEnclosureUrls=true to the end of the default RSS feed’s URL. This RSS feed adds Podcasting 2,00 alternate enclosure elements, which is an extension to the RSS specification, so that the RSS feed links to both audio and video.
Some podcast platforms support the alternate enclosure element. Other podcast platforms, like Apple and Spotify, ignore them, so your audio delivery is not affected.
For example, a playlist’s default RSS feed’s URL returns an RSS feed that uses only RSS 2,00 enclosure elements to link to either audio or video, but not both:
https://example.com/playlist/1234
The following URL returns an RSS feed that includes the same conventional RSS 2,00 enclosure elements as the default RSS feed, as well as Podcasting 2,00 alternate enclosure elements that link to the alternate media files:
https://example.com/playlist/1234?altEnclosureUrls=true
You can specify what media to link to in the enclose and alternate enclosure elements with Default enclosure URL in the playlist’s Settings tab. For details, see Set the Default Enclosure for Audio and Video.
Set the Default Enclosure for Audio or Video
You can specify the primary way for your audience to consume clips from your playlist’s RSS feed with Default enclosure URL in the playlist’s Settings tab.
To set the default enclosure element, go to your playlist’s Settings tab, select Audio-first or Video-first, then select Save changes.
Default enclosure URL specifies how to use the RSS 2,00 enclosure elements and Podcasting 2,00 alternate enclosure elements in the RSS feed:
Audio-first: The enclosure elements always refer to audio versions of the playlist’s clips. This is the default and is compatible with most podcasting platforms.
Video-first: When available, the enclosure elements refer to the video versions of the playlist’s clips. Use this only when required by a podcasting platform. For related information, see Submit Video Content to Apple Podcasts with RSS.
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Remember that alternate enclosure elements are only available when appending ?altEnclosureUrls=true to an Omny RSS URL.