Updates: receive updates via RSS/ Twitter/ Facebook/ music streaming
Annoying, often visiting sites to see if the information you are interested in,
has been published already? The solutions for the Midlist site: the Midlist is the
first Dutch charts site that offers all site updates automatically via
RSS,
Twitter,
Facebook and
music streaming!
As of May 2016 you can listen to the Midlist music on your computer or smartphone that is connected to the (mobile) internet, via music streaming service
Spotify (they have an app, web client and desktop client). Currently, the following playlists are available, and the number of playlists will be extended over time:
To receive these updates directly via RSS, you need a news reader (RSS reader) and
a RSS feed.
From Windows Internet Explorer 7 and in Mozilla Firefox for example, a RSS reader is built in by default,
but you can also use
Google
Reader online, download and install free desktop programs as
FeedReader, or a mobile RSS reader as RSS Hub, that
comes along with some Windows Mobile devices of HTC.
You can recognize RSS feeds by
RSS or Atom icons in browsers and on web sites. The RSS feeds of the Midlist site
are
Subcribe on a Midlist RSS feed
- Windows Internet Explorer: click in the command toolbar on the arrow to the right
of the RSS icoon, choose the desired RSS feed, click on "Subscribe to this feed",
eventually adjust the feed name, eventually check "Add to Favorites Bar", and click
"Subscribe".
- Mozilla Firefox: click in de menu bar on "Bookmarks", kies "Subscribe to this page", choose the desired RSS feed, click on "Subscribe to this feed",
eventually adjust "Subscribe to this feed", eventually check "Always use Live Bookmarks to subscribe to feeds",
click "Subscribe now", eventually adjust the feed name, eventually choose a folder, and click
"Subscribe".
- Google Reader: copy the address of the desired RSS feed, click on "Een abonnement
toevoegen", paste the feed URL in the text box, and click "Toevoegen".
- RSS Hub: Menu, Channel, New, I know the URL of the channel (RSS), Next, enter the
address of the desired RSS feed, eventually enter the name for the new channel,
Finish.
- Other RSS readers: read the help function of the concerning reader.
"Like" Midlist on Facebook
and receive the weekly Midlist updates real time in your Facebook news feed!
Have you also "liked" Midlist, but suddenly you receive no or fewer Midlist
updates in your news feed? After these steps, the updates will work again:
- At the top of the Midlist Facebook home page under "Liked", choose "Unlike this Page" and then click "Like" again!
- Or at the top of the Midlist Facebook home page under "Following", choose "See first".