Autodownload podcasts

[mce_in_catford4]

Hi all,
I have just got my CORE to automatically download podcasts. (Without any extra software)
I was excited about how I did it so I wrote an explination of how I did it on the wiki:
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Setup_Automatic_podcast_download#Step_4_-_Add_your_own_podcasts

Firstly is adding this article to the wiki ok for me to do? As a linux MCE beginner it could be a bit of a case of the blind leadin the blind.

Secondly based on what I have done, can the 'experts' suggest improvements. I mean I understand that linuxMCE can tag the media. There is a lot more information in the XML file for each podcast item. I know how to make my bash scripts run mysql commands etc. Is there a way of altering them so that information read from the XML file can be loaded into the database so that LinuxMCE captrues it?

Thirdly I currently want to find out more about tagging media. Can anyone point me in the direction

[merkur2k]

I dont think anyone is gonna complain about stuff being added to the wiki as long as it is relevant and at least close to correct
LMCE uses id3 tags extensively for metadata for all types of media. if the filetype doesnt support the addition of an id3 tag then a <filename>.id3 file can be used instead. There are various ways of creating/editing these files, I myself have used the MP3::Tag perl module.

[tschak909]

look at the source code for src/UpdateMedia from our SVN:

http://svn.linuxmce.org/svn/branches/LinuxMCE-0810

This daemon does virtually all media detection and extraction of tags from files to be put into the media database.

-Thom