There are 3 places we deal with artwork.

1) On the podcast itself. If you have an image (160px by 160px) upload it to your server, go to feedburner, and it smart feed you should be able to give the path to the image. This is the one that will be used in iTunes for your podcast.

2) There is episode art. If you are using the audio module there is a module that lets you attach images for the album art. You can use that to attach them to the files.

If you have anything that modifies the ID3 tag it works by wiping out the old ID3 tag and adding a new one. So, if you add an image for album art on your computer and then you use drupal to alter the artist and other ID3 tags the image will be blown away. So, you either need to deal with all the tags on your computer or have drupal manage your album art.

3) In the post itself. You'll notice that the image we use going out in the G&G feed items body. You can use the contemplate module to format that in the feed item.

Hope this helps.

Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com

I was just curious as to how I was going to do this as well. Searched the geeks and god forum and found this post. I tried out Matt's suggestion of pushing it through Feedburner as that seemed like a no brainer solution.

Burn a new feed through Feedburner, then head over to the settings for the feed, select Optimize and then choose "SmartCast" (accessible at "http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/smartcast?id=[idnumber]"). Activate Smartcast then enter in the URL to your iTunes podcast feed image.

I just got this to work with a test podcast feed that I created using Views2, and it worked very well!

Hello. I recently just started my new podcast cast through mypodcast.com
"Venaccio Power Hour"

Each episode is 60 minutes of mixed music and usually contains around 10-12 different songs.

My question deals with album art:
I'd like to have the artwork change as the song changes. I can easily make all the necessary artwork, I'm just curious about how the rest of this works.

Thank you.

-J

Hey venaccio,

I'm not a podcast guru, but an Enhanced Podcast can contain chapters, links, and art and is saved as an MP4.

You'll need authoring software, like GarageBand, to encode it.

Does that answer your question?

-NP

Thank you I will give that a try.

So I used Garageband and made a great .m4a with artwork/chapters. It's perfect!
However, mypodcast.com requires an upload of .mp3
I do not know what to do now.
-J

What about another host? Searching for "podcast hosting" returns lots of results, many free. GarageBand exports directly to iWeb. -NP

I found podbean but it allows only 100 mb a month which sucks.
My show will be about 400 mb a month.
Their deals range all the way up to 20 bucks a month, screw that.
If you have any other ideas let me know.
-J

Have you looked into reducing file size? "The End" episode of G&G was 26 minutes long yet under 18MB. -NP

EDIT: Also, I just reread your initial post...be careful about using copyrighted songs. That's not legal.

Will try and will do.
Thank you