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How to Podcast

Posted by michael on from the used-to-be-called-push dept.

ptorrone writes "Engadget shows how to get Podcasts on your iPod and for the DIY Radio enthusiast, how to make your own Podcasts using mostly free tools. What's a Podcast? To put it simply, a Podcast is an audio file, a MP3, most likely, in talk show format, along with a way to subscribe to the show and have it automatically delivered to your iPod or other music device."

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  1. Underground Talk Shows by radd0 · · Score: 2, Informative
    This sounds like an excellent method to broadcast some of my favorite underground internet radio talk shows. :-)

    i.e.:

    The ARTS

    BinRev

    Default Radio

    Radio FreeK America

  2. For those who don't RTFA by phrenq · · Score: 3, Informative

    and start talking about FCC implications, this has nothing to do with broadcasting. It's a way to distribute radio show-type content TO an ipod, not from it. The distribution mechanism is nothing more interesting than downloading an mp3 specified in an rss feed.

  3. The Engadget howto by Ludoo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Describes with more details what others have found, see Hugo Schotman or podcasters.org.

  4. Re:All we need now... by bloosqr · · Score: 2, Informative
    Doesn't ipod take MP3 files? I used to "streamrip" shoutcast stations and burn them onto mp3/cds for long distance traveling.

    If Ipod looks basically like a hard drive once mounted (which i think it does), I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to use streamripper and then snag say WNYC's NPR mp3 stream automatically for whatever shows you want and then move the appropriate streams to your automounted ipod drive in HFS.

    If shows that you like are run overnight you could probably cron script this whole thing into a 5 line script that does exactly what you want.

    Or better yet, have a script generate the cron scripts for you for each show you want and have a sync script sync it for you.. -bloo

  5. Re:All we need now... by W1BMW · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're using an Apple, it's called Audio Hijack Pro and it allows you to capture ANY audio that you can listen to with your computer and save it to a nice & tidy .mp3 file. I used to have something similar for windows before my enlightenment, but the name escapes me. Anyway, AHP can even be set to fire off at a certain time if you wanted to catch a specific program while you sleep, leaving it on your desktop to be dropped onto your iPod at your convenience. I use it specifically for NPR programming so I can jack it into my helmet on the way to work.