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How to Podcast
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."
If people keep doing undesireable things, it's only going to lead to undesirable features being built into the iPos and iTunes. It's really only .001% that want to do something like this; why ruin it for everybody else?
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
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I'm really looking forward to some good stuff out of this. Remember, if you don't like what you're hearing, there's nothing stopping you from producing something yourself!
You mean something like this.
no. that's a halfassed solution of getting from your device to your car. most "quality" (if you can call them that) fm modulator devices for cars don't broadcast fm at all, they attach directly to your car antenna (on the inside, of course), though they still suck compared to aux inputs. i meant modifying one of those antenna drivers for getting music from your device to OTHER PEOPLE's cars, who may happen to be more that 3 feet from your transmitter source.
also, make sure you don't label it with your name if you're planning on throwing it down a well and pretending to be trapped.
There are lots of interesting legal uses for this technology. Podcasting is another step forward in democratizing the media.
There is no reason to assume that the "podcasts" are of music, and there is no more chance of piracy from podcasts than from the internet in general. Characterizing people doing podcasts as people "doing undesirable things" is a presumption based on facts not in evidence.
The automatic presumption that computer audio files==piracy is a triumph of RIAA PR but not an actual fact.
More of a danger to iPods and iTunes would be the INDCUCE act and dis-information from Steve Balmer, who implied that iPods with their ability to play un-DRM'dmp3s were the primary vector for pirated music. In fact, iPods, with the success of the iTunes Music store, are the primary success story for DRM, and Microsoft Windows powered PCs are the undeniable leaders in pirated file trading.
How about RSS synching for iPod, or even better, RSS with text-to-speech generation synching.
/me invisions listening to slashdot while jogging.
PS: Do we like or hate engadget? I forget.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
Apple went to all the work of building a cool palm-like OS into the thing. There's several books written about it. [kinda like TiVo] As long as the modders keep their fingers off the DRM [cause apple would get in trouble with the riaa] then all the apps and gadgets are cool with them.
Most of the other music devices are just barely music devices... they play only exactly what the manufacturer decides to support in the drivers...and most of the manufactures seem to sabotage "modding" attempts.
The iPod is like the palm pilot in the early 90's. Sure other people tried PDAs but palm was the first to nail it... same with iPod. The "next" thing would be video, but that'll be at least 3-5 years away. iPod is sitting pretty for a while.
For Christ's sake, will slashdot come clean on how much money they charge Engadget (WEBLOGS, INC. NETWORK) for these story placements? The submitter, Ptorrone, is the author of the article (Phillip Torrone), yet this is not disclosed in the slashdot post.
Engadget is an infomercial site. It's not a blog. If you doubt the commercial relationship between slashdot and Engadget, check out how many submissions have been accepted from Ptorrone in the last 60 days. Also note that each of the accepted submissions are Engadget articles written by PhillipTorrone.
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