A Few Changes To Our Feeds

When we started the MacCore Podcast, we produced both an Enhanced AAC feed that included chapter markers and additional artwork as well as a standard MP3 version. We al love the Enhanced AAC feed, it takes significantly longer to produce and can add as much as two hours to our post-production process. As our lives have gotten more hectic, that’s simply time we do not have. We were therefore faced with the decision to either put the show out less frequently, or do a show only in MP3 format. We’ve decided that most listeners would rather have more frequent shows than the Enhanced AAC feed.

Since most listeners are subscribed to our Enhanced AAC feed in iTunes we are going to use that as our primary feed and those subscribed shouldn’t have to do anything. We hope that we can switch all of our current MP3 feed listeners over to the primary feed without any action needed on your part. But, just to be sure, we would ask those of you who are currently subscribed to our MP3 feed in iTunes to please subscribe to the Enhanced AAC edition. Although the name says otherwise, this feed is already using MP3s. We’re working with the iTunes Podcasting Staff and they’ve advised we do this transition in a few stages over the course of several weeks in hopes of not loosing any subscribers in the mix.

We need to do a little work on our end to clean things up and standardize our feeds. When we “flip the switch” it’s likely that this will cause all of our shows to “republish” making them show up as new episodes which may cause your client to re-download everything. We’ll issue a warning before this happens so you can make adjustments in iTunes that will allow you to avoid to avoid this. Again, the switch won’t happen for a few weeks, we’ll let you know.

Thanks for your patience and understanding. Hopefully we can come through this transition with a minimum level of annoyance for everyone.