I've been able to generate a working podcast feed with the itunes feed generator. It's a great feature. However, the generated
channel tag which is displayed in the iTunes Store as "Website" with an arrow should link to the front page of a website. (At least this is is the case with most other podcasts.) Instead, the generated tag points to the feed itself. Digging around in the audio_itunes.module code, I found two different definitions of 'link':

Line 414 has:

    'link'        => url($view->feed_url ? $view->feed_url : $view->real_url, NULL, NULL, true),

while line 474 has:

    'link'        => $base_url,

It seems like the second one should point to a site's front page. I could be way off, but maybe these are in conflict?

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anthonym commented

Just bumping this up. I'd be willing to do some troubleshooting of this myself if someone could point me in the right direction.

Anthony

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anthonym commented
Priority: Normal » Critical

Bumping this up again. Can anyone check it out?

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anthonym commented

Okay, I found the solution to this myself, so I thought I should share in case it might help someone else. The podcast feed links can be changed by a themeable function found in audio/contrib/itunes/audio_itunes.module. It's a long function so I won't include it all here, but the relevant portion is near the beginning:

Original:

/**
 * plugin that actually displays an RSS feed
 */
function theme_audio_itunes_feed($view, $nodes, $type) {
  if ($type == 'block') {
    return;
  }
  global $base_url;


  $channel = array(
    // a check_plain isn't required on these because format_rss_channel
    // already does this.
    'title'       => views_get_title($view, 'page'),
    'link'        => url($view->feed_url ? $view->feed_url : $view->real_url, NULL, NULL, true),
...

The relevant code here is the last line included beginning with 'link'... As is, this points to the feed url itself which I didn't think was too useful. After some fiddling around I found out that at least one reliable way of pointing to my home page was to change it to:

My override:

    'link'        => url(NULL, NULL, NULL, true),

The first NULL means that nothing will be added to the a site's base url. If you want the link tag to point to a different directory then that should go in place of NULL.

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willhall-dupe commented

I want to thank you for solving this problem. This has troubled me and our podcast for a while now, i really appreciate your work here! -- will

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willhall-dupe commented

If i want the link tag to point to a completely different url i.e. http://www.mysite.com, do i just put that in place of NULL as you say? thanks for help!

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anthonym commented

Hi Will,

I wanted to check to make sure I could answer this with some degree of confidence before posting back. I'm far from an expert on either theme overrides or the Drupal API but I think this will do what you want:

url('http://www.mysite.com', NULL, NULL, true)

Don't forget the single quotes around the full url for the external site you want to specify. Otherwise Drupal won't render it correctly. Hope this helps.

Anthony