Comments on: PodCasting is Hard

By: FeedTheNetwork

FeedTheNetwork — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:27:39 +0000

I don’t see what difficulty you would be having with an RSS Feed. It is just a text file. And enclosures aren’t really enclosed, which sort of sucks, the name I mean – they should have just called them referenceLinks.

You know that you can attach files to Adobe PDF files?!?! There’s a TRUE enclosure for you. And don’t believe the media-hype, there’s not really that many people listening to podcasts on portable devices.

There is however, a large amount of bandwidth being wasted from all of those ‘subscriptions’ pulling in 20-30 meg files only to be deleted after 10-seconds of listening….

Now where oh where did I put my rose colored glasses…….

By: rob

rob — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:21:51 +0000

We’re working on a full service web 2.0 solution to podcasting. Help is on the way. http://www.Podcastinople.com

By: brandy

brandy — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:13:58 +0000

I just wish itunes let me link the file through an easy admin interface.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:37:36 +0000

Brandy — check out the URL I gave up there.. you don’t need a blog to podcast with it. You drop your MP3s into a folder, make a text file with details about each file, then point iTunes to a PHP page that you dropped in that folder (point iTunes to it once.. it will check your feed automatically after that). It’s simple, and if you’re decent with PHP you can customize it and make it even more simple.

By: brandy

brandy — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:30:32 +0000

I think one way it could have been handled was, itunes could have taken care of it. you could login, and everytime you want to add to your podcast you could just put a link to the MP3 (which of course you have to host someplace other then them) and an image file etc.. I think it’s silly you MUST have a blog to podcast.