Feed default order
Sun, 2011-02-20 06:41
I'm trying to add my youtube channels on zinc.tv but the order when I look at them on my favorites is reversed (oldest-first).. How can I make zinc.tv always display newest first everywhere including the favorites screen snippets without haveing to choose sort order each time?
Mon, 2011-02-21 04:34
#2
Sure here is the RSS: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/HuskyStarcraft/uploads?alt=rss...
This by default sorts the items in reverse order both in the favorites screen snippets and the channel details.
If I do newest first it works fine but I want to make 'newest first' the default on both the favorites screen and channel details
Mon, 2011-02-21 14:36
#3
After checking this a bit more thoroughly you guys reverse the order in all the RSS feeds while it works fine on all the Atom feeds I tried
Tue, 2011-02-22 06:49
#4
The ordering of the feeds within favorites is based on the last feed watched moving to the top of the list. The order within a feed is affected by the system if you are watching an ordered series like "lost" where you want to watch the shows in order. It is based on the last one watched. We tried to build in heuristics to determine is a tv show should be serialized based on the season and episode information. if you read through the spec in the developers section you can see that there are viewhints. Inserting those tags into the feed will determine what metadata is shown as well as affect the ordering in favorites.
Tue, 2011-02-22 07:23
#5
Inserting those tags into the feed will determine what metadata is shown as well as affect the ordering in favorites.
Well that's OK for advanced stuff like TV Series but you should have consistent ordering on both rss and atom feeds:
gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/HuskyStarcraft/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile
gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/HuskyStarcraft/uploads?alt=atom&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile
These two are ordered completely different in zinc.tv
Fri, 2011-02-25 14:35
#6
I've run into this issue also. The only way i've gotten Zinc to show RSS feeds by newest first is by running the RSS feed through Yahoo pipes and sorting it by date. Here is a pipe with your feed so you can see what i'm talking about:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=cb7b378e6aa2f336e04217af947dce52
If you're not familiar with Yahoo Pipes you can click on "Edit Source" to see how it's done. In this case it's pretty simple.
Tue, 2011-03-01 06:52
#7
I'm familiar with pipes but they can't export atom feeds :(
Tried doing RSS ordering through pipes but it still didn't work.
Can you please consider fixing this in a future version since this makes zinc.tv unusable for me?
Tue, 2011-03-01 13:07
#8
That's weird. In past pipes it always worked for me but now after I add it to my Favorites it reverses the feed's order.
Can you give us a link to one of the channels you're trying to add?