First Podcast

May 24, 2005, 8:16 pm
Posted by James Spann in General Thoughts
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On this quiet weather night, we yet dive into technology and offer a test "podcast":

Today's podcast is an audio forecast for use on your computer or MP3 player, valid for Wednesday May 25.

No promise this will work... just a test of some RSS scripts. I will explain all of this on a post tomorrow once we can be sure we are up and running properly!

Have a podcast program (like Ipodder)??? Here is the podcast RSS feed link:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Weathertalk

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Posted by  
on May 24, 2005, 8:37 pm
Hi James, just wanted to let you know it worked nicely for me and ran well on my AOL media player.

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Posted by Josh  
on May 24, 2005, 8:44 pm
Yeah, it played very easy and very well on my computer.

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Posted by Vic Bell  
on May 24, 2005, 8:54 pm
Hi James...It worked well on my Windows Media Player also. I have dial-up and it took 3½ minutes at 50.6Kbps to buffer before playing, but then played all the way through with no skips.

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Posted by Josh  
on May 24, 2005, 9:06 pm
Yeah, It played fine just like any other mp3 file does.

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Posted by Josh  
on May 24, 2005, 9:15 pm
Podcasting is a way of publishing sound files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new audio files automatically. Podcasting is distinct from other types of audio content delivery because it uses the RSS 2.0 protocol. This technique has enabled many producers to create self-published, syndicated radio shows.
Users subscribe to podcasts using "podcatching" software (also called "aggregator" software) which periodically checks for and downloads new content. It can then sync the content to the user's portable music player, hence the portmanteau of Apple's "iPod" and "broadcasting". Podcasting does not require an iPod; any digital audio player or computer with the appropriate software can play podcasts.

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Posted by   www
on May 24, 2005, 9:55 pm
James, The podcast worked well on my computer. I love to see a weather team so dedicated to using technology. You said it the best as "pushing the envelope of technology".

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Posted by  
on May 25, 2005, 12:15 am
James, this podcast worked well on my computer. Yet another advance in technology from the ABC 33/40 Weather Team.

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Posted by  
on May 25, 2005, 1:42 am
Sounded good here too!

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Posted by  
on May 25, 2005, 5:36 am
This is going to be great for us with dialup connections, who normally cannot watch the video web updates. Thanks, James!

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