launching Itunes or playing files from XML

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I am interested if anyone knows of how to launch itunes to play a podcast from a swf file? The podcasts has an XML that itunes reads but what about launching the physical player and does anyone know of a way to do this?

I want to have a data list which i have already loading the XML from a podcast but on click it would launch that podcast into the users itunes player. any ideas? Thanks in advance and happy friday yall.
MT

[broneah]

I am interested if anyone knows of how to launch itunes to play a podcast from a swf file? The podcasts has an XML that itunes reads but what about launching the physical player and does anyone know of a way to do this?

I want to have a data list which i have already loading the XML from a podcast but on click it would launch that podcast into the users itunes player. any ideas? Thanks in advance and happy friday yall.
MT



Itunes has a proprietary system for launching a podcast. I recenly built a site for a client in which i had to overcome the same problem you are facing. Heres how i did it.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?itmsUrl=itpc%3A%2F%2Fwww.founderscouncil.com%2Fen-us%2Fsupport%2Fsubscription.xml%3Fign-mscache%3D1

Asside from the url being encoded you will notice a query string value itmsurl=itpc (itunes podcast) this refers to the location of the podcast subscription xml. Research more on the required xml based information to find out how to structure your document and such. Its relativly easy ;)

-Ryan