Re: [microsound] podcasting/audioblogs/net.radio/p2p

[{ brad brace } <bbrace@xxxxxxxxxx>]

1. Lovely!

2. Would it be possible to serve-up a variety of lengths for
   (somewhat random) podcasts from the mp3-stream? ie., the
   listener might choose between a number of buttons
   indicating the size of download 'for the moment.'

/:b



On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Aaron Ximm wrote:

> Two comments on podcasting:
>
> 1. I just created one for the One-Minute Vacation page on my site.
>
> A new 60 sec unedited field recordings from submitters like you every
> Monday. Participation is encouraged.
>
> Project home:
>  http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation.html
>
> New (beta) podcast:
>  http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation.xml
>
> 2. Re Brad's question...
>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:04:49 -0800 (PST)
> > From: { brad brace } <bbrace@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Is it possible to podcast mp3-streams?
> > Can this be done with rss-2 by somehow attaching the
> > streamed-audio-url? (http://63.170.215.11:8000 )
>
> Seems unlikely? If it's a non-terminating stream, how would the aggregator
> know when to stop capturing...?
>
> The RSS <enclosure> tag that AFAIK "drives" podcasting has a length
> argument in it; the RSS2 specs I could find say that length is mandatory,
> but who knows if it's cross-referenced or used for sanity checking by
> aggregators though... eg Firefox's "Sage" extension for RSS feeds ignores
> the tag entirely, which means you don't get the MP3s!
>
>  best,
>   aaron
>
>   ghede@xxxxxxxx
>   http://www.quietamerican.org
>
>   |  quod omne animal post   |
>   |  cogitum est triste...   |

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