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new zealand music news feed

noise productions ltd provides a free new zealand music news feed containing press releases from all the major nz music sources including bands, funding agencies and venues.

you can plug into the feed yourself using RSS technology so that you can display news on your own site.

the raw news feed can be picked up from http://www.noiseproductions.net/news/rss.xml

It is in RSS version 1 format.

You can submit your own news to the feed using this link

Rules:

  1. If you wish to display news on your site you may not pick up the RSS file more frequently than once per hour. If we detect a domain picking up the file more frequently than this your domain may be banned, please have consideration for our bandwidth and other users of the service.
  2. nz music content only.
  3. you must link to the URL's where the news is located, you may not display the entire story on your site.

thats about it, if your site has its own news feed and you would like to merge your feed into the NZ Music News Feed simply email newsfeed@noiseproductions.net and we will arrange to pick up your files automatically.

If you have no idea how to go about writing a script to display a news feed you can steal this one here

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript SRC=http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/services/news/channel.asp?c=http://www.NoiseProductions.net/news/rss.xml> </SCRIPT>

just put this in the body of your page.
you can use a style sheet to make it look pretty or download the PHP source from here

If your site uses ASP then check out http://www.kattanweb.com/webdev/

if you get really desperate just link to http://www.noiseproductions.net/news/read_rss.asp but please don't use this too much or we'll have to restrict your domain (if you get more than about 20 hits a day then use one of the other methods).

try and cache the RSS file on your own server. that way it will be available if this site is down and it will load much faster. we only update the feed once every day anyway so there is no advantage in picking it up any more frequently.