Simple way of getting podcasts on the new Xbox 360 “How do you listen to your favorite podcasts on your Xbox 360? There is nothing better than slaughtering your pals online while you catch up with NPR’s Story of the Day. And kicking off the week with an episode of TWiT to accompany your Monday night XBL football league is a welcome replacement for repetitive announcers… let’s figure out how to get those podcasts on the Xbox 360.” [via] Link.
Formerly iPodder, here’s the latest version and information for this great open source podcatcher – “Juice has evolved from its basic beginnings as the world’s first podcasting software to a mature, fully featured application. Donation-supported Juice has been downloaded over 1 million times since its debut last year, making it the world’s most popular podcast receiver.” Link.
Go kick the tires on the new O’Reilly podcast page! “This week, O’Reilly’s audio magazine program Distributing the Future features day three from the Web 2.0 conference: Vinod Khosla from Kleiner Perkins on the overabundance of money, Scott Cook of Intuit on learning from customers, Sergey Brin on the current state of Google, Dick Hardt on identity, and Safa Rashtchy talks to five teens.” Link.
If you’re at the Portable Media Expo, pop by and say hi for the MAKE session! – “…hacks, mods, tips and how-tos that will likely void the warranty of just about anything you might consider to fetch or record podcasts. From the pages of MAKE magazine, to sharing his publishing tips and tricks, to a flurry of how-tos for mobile devices, this session will be action packed with everything you didn’t know was possible with a myriad of technologies.” Link.
Nice tutorial from Jake “Apple’s AAC format allows podcasters to create “enhanced podcasts” complete with embedded photos at publisher defined points throughout the podcast. These files are only compatible with iTunes and iPods, leaving a large universe of listeners out of the picture. Microsoft’s Photo Story could easily create something similar, with a voice track narrating beneath a series of images, but the WMV file created in Photo Story isn’t compatible with most portable music players. One alternative that bridges the gap and maximizes compatibility is to create a script enhanced WMA file, These WMA files with embedded scripts play just like a normal WMA anywhere scripting isn’t supported.” Link.
Declan writes “…how to capture radio shows with a Griffin Radio Shark, convert then to bookmarkable AAC files, then make them available as a Podcast so iTunes can automatically sync them to your iPod.” Link. Clever hack to get all the podcasts that aren’t in the iTunes directory from NPR.
Yahoo! enters the podcast arena with their own podcast directory and service – if you use the Yahoo! Music engine (our review here) or anything else it seems, you can sync to your music player too. I’ll give it a spin soon, looks promising. It’s pretty incredible that the DIY audio scene has so many options now – ODEO, iTunes, all the podcatcher applications… Link and here’s the MAKE audio show, which we’ll have more of soon, promise!
