by colin_e » Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:18 am
MediaMonkey: 40.03.1470
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
Other podcast download tools i have used (e.g. GPodder, Miro) could be used from another program via a "Subscribe to" function that generates a command line operation.
I'm specifically thinking of Firefox. When you click on an RSS feed link in Firefox you have the option of subscribing using Firefox's own "Live Bookmarks" function, or linking to an external program. if you choose an external program I think what happens is Firefox runs that program with a command line something like-
However this doesn't work well with MediaMonkey-
- MM doesn't register itself as a feed handler in Windows, so it doesn't show up in the list of programs in Firefox's "subscribe with" menu.
- If you browse to the MM executable as the target application in Firefox, say from this page- http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/feed/MP4-Large MM comes up with the error-
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Problem
feed:\\revision3.com\pixelperfect\feed\MP4-Large - Unknown Protocol
If you manually add this URL via Mediamonkey's own "add a subscription" function it will at least try to download the podcast (there are other issues with podcast subscription, but i will post about those separately). However it does seem that MM was not designed to act as a registered podcast subscription handler in the OS, which is a shame, unless there is an undocumented feature here?
The help wiki is well out of date on this area, it still only covers MM3 (it specifically says Mediamonkey cannot subscribe to video podcasts), so if there are undocumented features for this i'd like to know.
Regards: colin_e
MediaMonkey: 40.03.1470
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
Other podcast download tools i have used (e.g. GPodder, Miro) could be used from another program via a "Subscribe to" function that generates a command line operation.
I'm specifically thinking of Firefox. When you click on an RSS feed link in Firefox you have the option of subscribing using Firefox's own "Live Bookmarks" function, or linking to an external program. if you choose an external program I think what happens is Firefox runs that program with a command line something like-
[code] myprogram http://<podcast url>[/code]
However this doesn't work well with MediaMonkey-
[list=]
[*]MM doesn't register itself as a feed handler in Windows, so it doesn't show up in the list of programs in Firefox's "subscribe with" menu.[/*]
[*]If you browse to the MM executable as the target application in Firefox, say from this page- [url]http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/feed/MP4-Large[/url] MM comes up with the error-
[code] Problem
feed:\\revision3.com\pixelperfect\feed\MP4-Large - Unknown Protocol[/code]
[/*]
[/list]
If you manually add this URL via Mediamonkey's own "add a subscription" function it will at least try to download the podcast (there are other issues with podcast subscription, but i will post about those separately). However it does seem that MM was not designed to act as a registered podcast subscription handler in the OS, which is a shame, unless there is an undocumented feature here?
The help wiki is well out of date on this area, it still only covers MM3 (it specifically says Mediamonkey cannot subscribe to video podcasts), so if there are undocumented features for this i'd like to know.
Regards: colin_e