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Podcasting: Not a Fishing Term |
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 There's this thing called Podcasting that I learned of from an Engadget article. Basically it's just the act of downloading a recorded audio stream (be it music, talk, what have you) and tossing it on your 'Pod for listening to it at your own pace and on your own terms.
Now that may not sound like much, because we all know you can put .mp3 or AAC files on our iPods, but well, here read this snippet:
Doc Searls may have said it best: “PODcasting will shift much of our time away from an old medium where we wait for what we might want to hear to a new medium where we choose what we want to hear, when we want to hear it, and how we want to give everybody else the option to listen to it as well.”
It's not like I'm making a huge prediction here, but the times, they are a changin'. The old mediums are finally starting to be replaced. Television can now be watched on our own time with DVR, audio can be listened to much the same way with iPods, and even the music industry is taking steps to "becoming digital", with the whole iTMS and it's crappy clones thing going on.
But let's get off the whole paradigm-shift tack and talk more specifically about Podcasting and the aforementioned Engadget article. It talks about iPodder X, an OS X app that keeps track of RSS 2.0 feeds. RSS 2.0 feeds can apparently have enclosures, including audio feeds. iPodder X will download feeds for you from your "watched" sites, which you can then import into iTunes.
Now this is really cool, as it gives you fresh content for your 'Pod whenever you want it. If you only listen to music on your iPod, that's cool, but occasionally I think it's nice to get some news, sports, opinion, techie stuff and Mac stuff (Dave Slusher's Evil Genius Chronicles works quite nicely for these latter two).
One problem I had with Podcasting was that the files were .mp3 and thus not bookmarkable by iTunes or iPod - I would continually lose the spot I was at. Well thanks to MacUpdate, I found OVOLab's AAChoo, which will convert .mp3's to AAC's quite nicely. Then I grabbed a script from Doug's Applescripts for iTunes - namely one called "Make Bookmarkable", which you toss in your iTunes scripts folder and it's then accessible to you from the scripts menu. Pretty handy.
So there you go, not your normal 2 Guys fare, but hopefully useful to somebody out there!
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October 8 2004, 9:27 AM EDT, by
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Comments:
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| sweetjimmyhugs |
10/8/04, 1:18 PM EDT |
It's about time that 2 Guys posted something usefull... nah, just kidding. When is the next article about cheese coming out?
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Jedbeck
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10/9/04, 7:05 AM EDT |
An article about cheese is never far behind.
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| ZackMac |
10/10/04, 1:40 PM EDT |
What about pod [edited]naughty word[/edited] ing? Or pod [doodoo]ting? That would be much better than pod casting.
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| ZackMac |
10/12/04, 5:09 PM EDT |
Speaking of cheese..
Who cut the cheese? It smells like [doodoo] in here!
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