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   daviding
   Member
   Posted 11 years ago

   Is there a way to increase the number of entries in the RSS feed from Medicore?

   Over the weekend, we upgraded http://media.isss.org/podcasts up to the current version of Mediacore (solving some thumbnail issues that we couldn't otherwise resolve). We've registered the feed for audio recordings from http://media.isss.org/podcasts/feed/isss-conference-audio.xml with iTunes, now at http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/isss-conference-audio/id552809318 .

   I noticed that only 25 feed items show in iTunes, while there are 37 entries from the most recent conference that happened in July 2012. Checking back, I now surmise that Mediacore only shows the most recent 25 entries.

   Since we have a conference every year, rather than entries every month, the feed would be better if set to 50 entries rather than 25. Is this a setting that the adminstrator could change, or could someone point to where the value could be set by a programmer? Thanks.
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   Felix Schwarz
   MediaDrop developer
   Posted 11 years ago

   yes, MediaCore will only display the latest 25 items in the episodes feed. Increasing that should be pretty simple in mediacore/controllers/podcasts.py in "feed()"
   
episodes = podcast.media.published()\
.order_by(Media.publish_on.desc())[:25]

3. 

   daviding
   Member
   Posted 11 years ago

   Felix, thanks so much for the direct answer. That saves a lot of hunting, and I can direct our support person to make the change (or I may even do that myself).

   Is there a feature request list where I could post this should be a value that might be set by a system administration, instead of by a programmer?
4. 

   Ian Nalepa
   Member
   Posted 11 years ago

   This is great to know. Thanks for the solution!!!

   I'll second that this might be a nice addition to the admin settings.
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   Felix Schwarz
   MediaDrop developer
   Posted 11 years ago

   I'm a bit hesitant adding more and more settings which clutter the UI. Also we have quite a few "max number of items" for feeds. Do we need a setting for each or one combined?

   If you had a proposal for a good ui (where to put it, how to name it, config file vs. db), I'd be fine with putting it in.

   Maybe something like dconf/Firefox about:config could be a solution where operators can change low-level settings without much UI.
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   daviding
   Member
   Posted 11 years ago

   I sympathize with the concern for clutter. The page at admin/settings/sitemaps only has two checkboxes, though, i.e. "Site Maps" and "RSS Feeds". That would be the logical place to have a sitewide alternative to a limit of 25 items in a feed.

   I think that the assumption in adding content is that no one would add more than 25 items at a single time to a feed. My use case might be different. We have an annual conference that is 6 days long, and plenaries in the morning with workshops in the afternoon has led to 37 entries just for this year. The second challenge is that I'm in a backlog of processing content, so while I'm currently adding content from the 2012 conference, the next tasks will be to add the 2011 conference and then 2010.

   The chain effect is that the RSS feed shows up in iTunes with less than the full content of the RSS feed. I've asked our program to change the setting from 25 items to 75 items, which now exposes that the content isn't just for 2012, but has some prior content, too.

   You now make me think that perhaps I should increase that to an even larger number, when I have all of the content posted. The RSS thus isn't so much for the people coming to Mediacore from the web browser, but via iTunes.

   I think that having a separate "max number of items" for each feed may be overkill. I currently have a podcast for conference audio and a podcast for conference video, and am thinking of adding additional podcasts for community contributions, thereby totaling four. Since RSS feeds sort with newest content at the top of the page, I'm way less concerned about having too many entries than not having enough (since readers would have the option of not scrolling all of the way to the bottom).
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   hollyhall
   Member
   Posted 11 years ago

   episodes = podcast.media.published()\
   .order_by(Media.publish_on.desc())[:25] WHERE DO I add this so it effects all my 25 podcasts?
8. 

   Ian Nalepa
   Member
   Posted 11 years ago

   This is around line 121 in the file: /mediacore/controllers/podcasts.py
9. 

   Felix Schwarz
   MediaDrop developer
   Posted 11 years ago

   Ok, I'll add that in the next version (tracking ticket).

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