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Aggregators that support RSS 2.0 "Enclosures"

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Are there any besides Radio? I've looked at Amphetadesk and Newzcrawler so far, but nothing there...

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  1. Bret Fausett, August 20, 2003

    I don't think anything besides Radio supports this (yet). If I recall my Scripting News correctly, the enclosures idea was Adam Curry's. He was looking for a way to get large media files to users, so Dave created the protocol to allow enclosures that could be upstreamed to users overnight. To work, it assumes that readers have an always on connection and leave their computers running overnight. But if that's you, you can find multi-meg video files waiting for you when you wake up. I'm personally interested in getting more involved in audio distribution, so I think the idea has some merit, but I wonder whether enough people fit the profile to make this mode of distribution worthwhile.
    -- Bret

  2. Ross, August 20, 2003

    Enough people have digicams - which makes early use and adoption quite likely *right now*.
    ie - http://www.byte.org/blog/wanderings/photos/rblog.xml
    Oh yeah, this is a PV6 feature enabled early ;) Its a component that you can add to any category.