Pod Casts And Minidisc

[duner9]

A local radio station...WNYC AM in NY (www.wnyc.org) offers what they call podcasting of various shows. Mostly these are 1 hour or 1/2 hour repeats of their talk shows which you can download into your iPod or MP3 player.

Reading the instructions for downloading these shows, they are mostly based on the iPod technology. Free software programs are available but these seem to be for the iPod only.

Does anyone know how or if these programs can be downloaded into MD?

Thanks,

Duner

[Christopher]

No, that's bull. What format are these "podcasts" in? MP3, wav, etc? All you would need to do is just convert it to ATRAC in Sonicstage.

[The_Stamp]

ya. bull. gamingsteve.com has podcasts, and all they are is mp3. i always wondered what podcasts were . dumb. just dumb.

[Christopher]

I get frustrated at the fact that people think "Podcasts" are only for iPods. To the moon, Steve Jobs, to the moon.

[ranwill]

I don't know of any software that will automatically load podcasts on a minidisc. There are programs that will automatically upload to an iPod, and also manage the files i.e. delete them once the have been listened too.

I would love to see someone come up with something like this for minidiscs. It seems that software is always the main problem with minidiscs

Randy

[milomind]

Don't rag on podcasts just yet. Lemme tell you the way I look at it, iPod got the whole world buzzing about portabitlity again, and that's a good thing. I am a die hard MD user, and wouldn't trade it for any size iPod. I'm just not into hd players( anyone want to buy a NW HD1 cheap?). MD users have always been at the forefront of content producing mainly because we can make great recordings like no one else. Podcasts can and are being made with MD's. No one is saying this is only for iPods. Listen to engadget's podcast. The guy is begging Sony to clean their act up. Professional reporters have been MD users from the very start. There is a lot to work with here folks. We need to start feeding the content hungry podcast listeners out there with the kind of content owning a MD can provide. Who cares what it's called.

[Kardon]

i got a dell DJ, and i love podcasts, i use Ipodder, its sorta crappy how ever, its built in that as soon as any podcast is done downloading it fired up iTunes, which is tiresome, and doesnt have a option to shut off. but it downloads them ans saves them to a my Received podcasts in your docs, just import those MP3's into SS.

[bobt]

I have a program called stationripper that works with Shoutcast, will probably work with others, haven't used it much, but a friend of mine uses it extensively, and loves it.

Bob

[Bananatree]

Stationripper is a good example of of something like podcasts, that has a good name that isn't tied to anything.

If iPod and MP3 hadn't been tied at the hip, we'd be listening to netCasts.

[Christopher]

I'm planning on doing 'casting for news bits and for future forum focuses. Stay tuned.

[hobgoblin]

bananatree, shoutcast is basicly a netcast. you just have to grab the stream

[toxigenicpoem]

I use Ipodder to recieve the daily feeds (no Itunes installed, if Itunes is installed, and not primary media player, you can rename the itunes executable to keep it from opening each time your run Ipodder), then i use Windows Media Player to build M3U (playlist files) by sorting for only 'New Files' that were added after the previous day. Which means all new files Ipodder downloads, automatically get listed for me to nab a premade playlist This is about the end of the automation right here, but at least all I have to do is Save the playlist with a name I like, then save the playlist, and import it into SS. Then from SS, I burn it up. Makes recieving podcasts a lot better.

[toxigenicpoem]

Ok, wasn't sure if an edit to my post would do a bump or not, so I am double posting, NOT FLAMMING, or SPAMMING!..

Anyway, I also feel that Software is the hinderance of the Minidisc. So I have come up with a solution to this problem. People wanted Podcast Automation, and I have broughT exactlly that. I really like Podcasts, hate uploading them, wont do it anymore, not even with my easy method above.. So if this is the first program, then yes!!!... lol

My program is called Ipodder2SonicStage, or IP2SS for short. What IP2SS RC1 alpha, will do, is grab the Ipodder MP3s, create a current upload shot playlist, upload (through SonicStage) the playlist and then archive the MP3s for the next Ipodder update.

Because we all know the limitations of the SonicStage software, there are a few limitations that I had to impose on the IP2SS system.

1. Playlist naming, I have come up with a clever way to always keep Podcast playlists accessable to the automation program, hopefully when I get a basic automation system, I can look into SonicStages capabilities a little more, and eliminate this part of the system.

2. The computer must be unattended in order for automation to work properly. My program takes control of SonicStage to complete the tasks.

3. I have limited time in my ability to make Opensource apps, so I used Visual Basic to accomplish the task, the requirements that are known to work SO FAR (I would love to have people sign up to beta test this software extensivly with me, but it will be open to everyone to try out and report bugs), are

Windows XP : I have hear of procedural call issues with Windows 9x series, but hopefully we can easily work past this.

SonicStage 3.1: I'm currently working with the latest version of SonicStage, I will also check compatibility with Ver. 2.0, to insure that those who do not upgrade to 3.1, will not have to.

Issues that I still need to work on, but may/will not be included in the RC1 Alpha release, and are in no perticular order;

1) Direct MP3 upload to take advantage for 2nd generation.

2) Quality Control through IP2SS, I would like to eventually allow IP2SS to take care of the Quality Adjustments as well, this way you can set it to do say 48K, for you Podcasts. Currently it will use the default sample rate you setup in the options.

3) Device Acknowledgement, I need to figure a way to acknowledge that the device is connected, BEFORE automation take place. However right now, if you would forget to hook up your MD before going to bed, you would wake up with the playlist ready to be uploaded, and of course nothing uploaded.

4) Better managment capability, archival features, file renaming etc.

5) Complete COMPLETE Podcast control, no more Ipodder2SonicStage, but a rename to WalkCaster LOL!

Anyway tere is a whole list of features I hope to pipe into this thing as I keep going with it, if you have suggestions, please feel free to leave them, if your interested in becomming a 'Closed' tester, you will get the latest builds, and work closely with me on FeatureSets. Also, if anyone is interested in eventually translating for me, I would like to offer a few languge packs.

Anyways!!! Let me know what you think, you can check out the continual state of IP2SS by going to

http://www.b3studios.net

I will post here when IP2SS RC1A, is available for download as well. Expected Alpha availability is 5/12/2005.

Edited May 11, 2005 by toxigenicpoem

[uri75]

any news about IP2SS?

[stshores24]

Hey, I know this post is dead, but this program would be REALLY useful. Anyone planning on taking this idea farther?

Edited September 18, 2006 by stshores24