Template talk:Cite podcast

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[edit] URL?

What would be put for the URL? The URL of the actual audio file for the episode in question? the URL for the RSS feed? the URL for the 1-click itunes link to the podcast? Or the URL to the website where the aforementioned links are? TheHYPO 08:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

• I'd suggest that would be the discretion of the person making the citation; whichever most clearly points to the actual source. Some podcasts are listenable through a particular Web site; others can be downloaded directy. The RSS Feed and iTunes links would probably be less valuable, as they require additional "software" for access.--Leflyman^Talk 08:56, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

The problem is that most people subscribe to the podcast in itunes and then don't have any reference to access the specific link to the episode audio file. One could go through the RSS code and get the specific URL to the episode audio file, but that's somewhat of a pain, and some people may not want to do that. The fact that there's a date field (perhaps there should be an 'episode' field, since some podcasts could be multiple times a day. The someone could put the date in the episode field for daily podcasts, or for less consistant ones, the episode number can be used... but you'd have to make it an additional field, or else retrofit any citations that exist now using the day field. TheHYPO 09:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

• I'm not sure how "most people" access podcasts, as I've listened to many of them directly through Web pages; although, I do get them through iTunes, too. And I agree it's a bit of a pain to find the actual source URL, but it's a necessity. The more I think about it, unless the podcast is available exclusively through Apple, using the iTunes pointer rather than the "real" URL, would be a problem: it locks in users to a particular software package, plus if Apple removes the listing from its server or has an error in its pointer, then the reference becomes unusable. It may have been a mistake on Apple's part or an intentional obfuscation to not make the source easy to find. An InfoWorld columnist finds the same annoyance.--Leflyman^Talk 18:55, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Additional parameters?

Should there be additional parameters, such as "time", i.e. the minutes:seconds within a podcast from which a particular quote/reference is taken?

Anything else that might make a podcast easier/more convenient to cite?

--Leflyman^Talk 09:01, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes. I took a look at this discussion section just to suggest adding a parameter so you could include a specific timespan (or timespans?) in the podcast that you are citing, for cases where you aren't citing the whole podcast. I would find that very useful, and it appears that I'm not the only one who wants to add that functionality. What do we need to do before we can make that addition to the template? -- HiEv 17:38, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree this would be a good idea. Even the ability to put a time range, say 1hr 10min to 1hr 20min, for a segment about the relevant info. - Waza 06:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] accessdate

Please make accessdate handling compatible with {{cite book}} etc.—accessdate should be yyyy-mm-dd with accessyear (yyyy) and accessmonth (mm) as alternatives. —xyzzy_n 01:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)