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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. Re:Unfortunate... by Wanderer2 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    My first reaction is to wonder how much of this is illegal.

    How could making copies of your own talk show and distributing them over the Net be illegal (except in places like China)? How could listening to someone else's be?

    Okay, maybe if your 'talk show' features long clips of copyrighted music... but that's not what the article discusses.

    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?

    1. Make sure you only use that iPod in the approved manner, citizen! 2. I'm not an expert in anyway, but did you just use a semi-colon in the proper manner? Pity that was the highlight of your post for me.

    Sorry for the jibes, but I think you've grabbed the wrong stick.

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  2. Why would that be your 1st reaction? by VidEdit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  3. How about RSS synching for iPod by aardwolf204 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  4. Re:Why always the ipod? by mabhatter654 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    because the iPod is very hacker friendly!

    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.