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Searching for "atom podcast" finds me podcasts about atoms, which I'm sure are fascinating but are not what I'm looking for. I've built an RSS feed for a podcast, but I'd like to replace it with Atom, which seems to be better defined and more capable of including arbitrary HTML content.

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    Since Google led me here on the same search, I just want to suggest that this is not a good idea for publishers. I'm entirely onboard with Atom being a cleaner feed format, but in practical terms, iTunes' RSS-flavoured spec is well-entrenched among podcast client libraries and apps beyond iTunes and even Apple's OSs. An Atom feed risks being incompatible with some of them. A lot of feed parsing libraries just provide an array of links and don't do anything intelligent with the link type, so the official enclosure may be ignored. /rant – mahemoff Jan 26 '15 at 11:22

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Use an enclosure link (or multiple) in your entry subtree(s).

An overview of the Atom 1.0 Syndication Format has a nice side-by-side example of an RSS and Atom podcast feed.

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    example: – hrdwdmrbl May 26 '13 at 20:55
  • Seems IBM has changed their website and the overview link is broken. Here is a wayback machine link to what I presume was the intended content: https://web.archive.org/web/20140228123540/http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-atom10/index.html Also...thanks IBM...nice jo – Daniel Brotherston Mar 23 '23 at 10:44