iphitus Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 I was linked to podcasting the other day by a friend, and it's awesome. What is it? I'll tell you. podcasting is almost like an audio blog, you podcasting client downloads the rss feed, and aggregates the mp3s from the links within. Except it's used for more than blogs, there are radio shows, casts promotings new music groups, all sorts of things, and it's damn entertaining! Think of it as a way to listen to a radio show of anything you want, there's plenty of linux talk shows, music, games the range is awesome. Also because you download it when you want to, you can listen to it when you want to. It's kinda hard to explain, best way to find out is to get a podcast and listen in, it's still relatively new, but it's great, there's plenty of podcasts to subscribe to and listen to, just check one of the many sites. http://podcastalley.com/ is a good start with a large index and covering of plenty of podcasts. For a client, you can use: http://www.jpodder.com/ To run it, download the zip http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ipodder....3.zip?download Unzip it, To install, run: java -jar install.jar Then go to where you installed it and run java -jar bin/jPodder.jar There are instructions and the like on the website. Or if you're like me and would rather a command line one we can stick in cron and forget about, bashpodder. http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/ or my modification http://aslan.no-ip.com/~iphitus/downloads/...ams/bashpodder/ Have fun. iphitus ps: no you dont need an ipod or anything apple :) Some of the podcasts I've been listening to and reccomend to start with are: The Linux Link Talk Show http://www.thelinuxlink.net/tllts/tllts.rss They talk about linux.. usually, though they tend to go on about whatever. Funny and entertaining Dawn and Drew http://www.dawnanddrew.com/rss2.xml Another funny one I listen to, I reccomend it, from the few episodes i've listened to, it looks like it will be great. It's also number 1 in the top 10 :D And just about anything in the top 10 here: http://podcastalley.com/podcast_top_rated.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest elisha Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 (edited) Thank you so much for this post. I really have a question if podcasting and rss feeds are just the same? I am sorry for that silly question but I really don't know the difference between the two. Again, thank you so much for this post. It gives a lot of information. Oh by the way I found out that this is an old thread. I am sorry for pulling this up however I just posted my comment here just to appreciate what iphitus had posted. Great job. Simulation pret immobilier Edited May 24, 2009 by elisha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 No rss is completely different. with rss you can see the headlines of a news site without actually visiting the site. It's text only. This way you can follow several newspage at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 Podcasts can make use of RSS, in that you can create an RSS feed for people to follow so they see when a new podcast is uploaded. You can also link to the podcast in the RSS feed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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