{"id":110,"date":"2005-05-24T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=110"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"did-lyric-fm-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2005\/did-lyric-fm-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Lyric FM podcast?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I heard Lyric FM was podcasting, so I went online to seek it out, looking for an RSS feed with enclosures, that’s the marker with which I think an audio archive becomes a podcast. But I found no RSS perhaps there never was one, I can’t find the MP3 either perhaps the link was taken down. The simplistic explanation of podcasting in the (Lyric\/RTE) press release would have me believe it was just an MP3 archive for download as opposed to the usual smil(e) real media file that RTE does so well. <\/p>\n

On the other hand Auntie BeeB is getting her teeth into podcasting with XML files! http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/downloadtrial\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The BBC site tells us “Podcasting is a way to “subscribe” to radio programmes and have them delivered to your personal computer[1]. The podcasts in this trial are free<\/b>.” Is that free of charge or the Gnu type of free? It’s BBC .co.uk not .com so its not a BBC WorldWide trial. It runs until Dec 2005. Remember the BBC was the first news service to shut down its WML w@p service in Feb 2000! (it has since returned). I hope the great shows from the BBC are not PPV p’casts from 2006. <\/p>\n

It’s odd to look at the BIG state broadcasters jitter over this new thing called podcasting. At least they are jittering, the independents have yet to even do the (jitter)bug. <\/p>\n

[1] I don’t own an iPOD, so I don’t know if iPodders run podcatching software on the iPOD or just the host PC\/MAC. I guess it’s the latter. This to me adds an extra failure point in the process. I schedule the catcher to download at 3am (hope it gets my shows) and then hope my iPOD syncs afterward to bring the shows down to my device, now I must keep up with the housekeeping of my host and the housekeeping of my iPOD. <\/p>\n

[updated] I read that you must use a podcatcher to get the shows, then it sync’s to your i-tunes then i-tunes sync’s to your iPod. Too many steps. What if the net connection fails, the podcatcher fails, the i-tunes fails, the iPod fails, the file is part of a torrent and incomplete??? <\/p>\n

I use the XDAii Pocket PC to podcatch. The catcher software is on the PPC (www.feederreader.com<\/a>) so the shows never hit my PC even at 3am.<\/p>\n

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I heard Lyric FM was podcasting, so I went online to seek it out, looking for an RSS feed with enclosures, that’s the marker with which I think an audio archive becomes a podcast. But I found no RSS perhaps there never was one, I can’t find the MP3 either perhaps the link was taken… Continue reading Did Lyric FM podcast?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}