Yahoo Launches New Podcasting Service 104
sdirrim writes to tell us Reuters is reporting that Yahoo! has just released a test version of its new podcasting service From the (short) article: "Yahoo's new service will allow users to download shows from National Public Radio, the weekly presidential address, and independent shows with subjects ranging from sports to knitting." Additionally Yahoo! Podcast users have the ability to rate shows.
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This American Life (Score:3, Insightful)
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Great! (Score:3, Insightful)
Some of the podcasts are pretty good (The ones produced by NPR are generally good), but almost all of the other's I've heard I can't stand to listen to for more than a minute or two.
I wish Apple or Yahoo would come up with a way to rate the podcasts, so I know right off which ones to not even bother wasting my time with.
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you don't need an iPod to listen to a podcast (Score:1, Informative)
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Something beyond 1-5 stars and some reviews would be nice. Something along the lines of rating the audio quality, how often there are new episodes, how long people stay subscribed on average, etc...
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Ya Don't Say? (Score:2, Funny)
I should hope podcasting's got Apple's attention. Rumour has it, they're the ones behind the iPod in the first place.
False... (Score:3, Funny)
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Rating.. (Score:3, Interesting)
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Is a nice OSS program for downloading podcasts too. No need for spyware/bloatware/crapware from the big guys.
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Unfortunately, the term "Podcasting", with all its trademark inferences, was the first one to catch on. Podcasting has little to do with Apple or the iPod. Apple has even been one of the latest and least cooperative parties to come to the whole game. They had to be repeatedly beaten over the head with the popular idea just to get some iTunes support,
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I'm always puzzled by this. There's probably a wider variety of music available today than at any time in history. Just last week I ran across some really great new progressive stuff out of Holland. You just need to look beyond the top 40 lists. Most of the new stuff I listen to will probably never be played by any radio station anywhere. You just have to look for it. Gosh, if only there were some sort of tool for that. Like some sort of international network or something. ;-)
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I'm listening to so many kinds of music i'd otherwise not be listening to if i let radio or MTV et al program my listening choices.
There's some really good stuff coming out of Germany and Brazil too. Mostly death metal out of Germany - m
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I'm getting the Handsome Boy stuff now. Thanks.
music today (Score:2)
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You post on Slashdot and you haven't heard of DRM?
remember DEVO? (Score:2)
but the funny thing is you have better selection today than you ever have.
WHen I read the gp post and then the responses about the selection being better now than ever before, I couldn't help but think of Devo [amazon.com]'s song, Freedom of Choice.
The GP is probably suffering from too many choices and has given up the search for music.
Seth
Re:remember DEVO? (Score:2)
Actually, I'm selling Pandora a bit short. They have done far more than just classified the music. The algorithm they use to help you find new music is the really redeeming feature. It's like the TiVo interface: you give it a "seed" song, and then start rating songs with the thumbs-up or the thumbs-d
Re:remember DEVO? (Score:2)
I'll check out Pandora.
Appreciatively,
Seth
Re:Rating.. (Score:2)
If it's not playing I'm unlikely to go looking for it. It's not that I think the top X lists are at all worthy of paying attention to, but my time is precious and spending it filtering the out the 10k possible artists that I might like down to something that I could resonably listen to doesn't seem to be worthwhile. By the time I get it narrowed down, I'm dead.
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If it's not in my bookmarks I'm unlikely to go looking for it. It's not that I think the top X sites are at all worthy of paying attention to, but my
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Right now, the tools out there cover maybe 10% of what's avaliabl
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For me, the answer is in the sub-popular labels. Once you get beyond the BMGs and Warners, labels often have a distinctive style, and can act as an advocate or a guide to helping you find good music.
Me? I put stock in names like Emperor Norton, the defunct Grass label, Eighteenth Street Lounge, Polyvinyl Record Co., and City Slang (a distributor, actually, but they have good taste). There are a few that ar
try last.fm (Score:1)
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I like user ratings (Score:3, Interesting)
Uploading Shows (Score:3, Interesting)
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P.S. I just listened to the TWIT podcast and holy shit was it bad. How anyone regularly listens to this crap is beyond me....
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http://www.loomia.com/ [loomia.com] (similar to Yahoo's, but also has collaborative filtering)
http://www.odeo.com/ [odeo.com] (lets you create podcasts)
http://www.podshow.com/ [podshow.com] (Adam Curry)
Oh for the love of God podcast is a stupid name (Score:4, Interesting)
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"Oh, but now you can tell via RSS that a new mp3 is ready". Oh joy.
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But, when it's done through iTunes, using RSS to autmatically grab new content from sites, it's starts to become something different. When the player keeps track of how much of the podcast has been played, and automatically manages the downloaded content according to user criteria, it becomes a podcast.
Yes, you can just download the mp3, but it's the iTunes experience that makes the system complete.
I used to think it was dumb too, but now I'm hooked.
I like knowing which shows I've heard, and which I still need to have a listen, and being able to pick up where I left off when I get interupted. iTunes, presents this information in a very intuitive way, and just downloading the mp3 doesn't, using RSS or not.
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I had to go out and find the content I wanted, I had to subscribe to the content in a different program than I used to find it, and I had to click the button to GET the content when the iTunes program let me know it has become available.
It doesn't have to work this way, it's the way I set it up, and it's how I like it.
Why don't you log in and post your comments,you punk ass little bitch.
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Honestly. You'd think every use of the term kills one of your pets or something.
If a website said "download my MP3", I'd treat that differently than "subscribe to my podcast". It's a descriptive term, and it's not going away anytime soon.
Re:Oh for the love of God podcast is a stupid name (Score:1)
TiVo/DVR: Just. Downloading. MP4s. Oh joy.
Internet: Just. A. Glorified. BBS. Oh joy.
I listen to 5-10 podcasts a day in the car and at work. Perhaps you wouldn't mind tracking 5-10 sites for updates, but I'm happy to have it automated.
I also don't memorize the TV guide in order to figure out when my favorite shows are on. I don't log into a different BBS in order to get information from every mailing list I'm on or site that I want to check.
Why are these automated developm
Re:Oh for the love of God podcast is a stupid name (Score:2, Informative)
I wish we had something like this in New Mexico.
Diary not blog? (Score:1)
But calling blogs 'diaries' is kinda lame, too. Though you can still see a zillion angsty "I hate myself, I love my cheese sandwich" blogs, there are a ton more that aggregate or commentate on interesting tech stories or political issues, and so on.
Re:Oh for the love of God podcast is a stupid name (Score:2)
The word "Podcast" implies automation -- You tell the computer what shows you want to watch. The broadcaster distributes the audio file on a regular schedule. Your computer monitors the feed, downloads the files and does the work for you.
Using this method, an audio producer effectively d
Oh for the love of god you're a moron (Score:2)
It's not just an audio file, a podcast is the entire mechanism of easily subscribing to a audio program, and having it sync up automatically to your listening software/hardware of preference.
Please actually research what you're talking about before sounding like a moron by trying to make fun of something you don't get.
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We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky
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I still prefer just right-clicking on mp3 files... (Score:2, Informative)
Anyway, the idea of a podcast directory is nice, and I'm neither surprised nor unhappy that Y! has stepped up to the plate. However, some of the whizbang stuff they've tacked on isn't, well, very user-friendly.
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Podcasting to a simplified existence (Score:4, Funny)
Nothing too special (Score:4, Insightful)
Works with iTunes (Score:2, Interesting)
Free podcasts? (Score:1)
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Whoa, where have you been? Perhaps you were not around a year ago when it was blogs reacting to exit poll data that were first claiming that Kerry was going to dethrone Bush. News outlets turned around and reported much the same thing, but only after the blogs focussed attention on it. Mainstream media didn't want such hasty conclusions, not because they were wrong, but because they wanted people to stay tuned all night long.
Even more recent
Re:Free podcasts? (Score:1)
Most of the blogs were wrong so I hardly see how it paid off in the end. News
No NPR shows, just the crappy podcasts (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm still pissed that NPR abandonded Audible.com [audible.com] with no backup plan. I mean, what the hell? Who had the brilliant idea?
"I know, let's turn of this service that is generating a revenue stream and replace it with ... ground seashells and sand! I wonder if anyone will notice."
Feh.
Re:No NPR shows, just the crappy podcasts (Score:2, Informative)
There's also complete PRI (Public Radio International) shows like To The Point, Le Show, and Pacific Time also avaliable in their entirety by podcast.
What you don't have is Morning Edition or All Things Considered avaliable by podcast. Instead, NPR takes stories from ME and ATC and puts them into different for
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So given that member stations rely on their listerners to pitch in to the basket so they can fund the national programming, how do yo
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Rate shows? Karma? Cool! (Score:4, Interesting)
Postitive: Interesting, Insightful, Informative, Underrated, Funny, and just for radio: timely
Negative: Offtopic, Troll, Flamebait, Redundant, Overrated, and just for radio: yesterday's news
What I want to know is: Do high-karma contributors start out at +2?
Yahoo! Music Podcasts? (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm an iTunes/iPod user and shuffle always gets annoying, and I don't have the time to keep making new playlists (which don't duplicate the "surprise factor" of radio anyway). If there was a subscription service where I could listen to podcasts with Music on my portable device I would be quite interested. Of course, Yahoo! would still have to deal with the iPod lock-in - their service currently requires WMA music players, which I'm not likely to buy in the first place.
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One reason that Podcasts are mostly talk-radio shows is the lack of a royalty license agreements similar to what commercial radio has. This is something that would be very difficult to set up with traditional Podc
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http://www.ipodarmy.com/2005/06/how-to-find-podsa
Unfortunatly it doesn't look like much commercial music is Podsafe.
Anyone know how to rip an NPR stream to MP3? (Score:2)
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Yahoo introduces Yahoo Search! With hyperlinks! (Score:2)
Buoyed by their success with Yahoo Podcastg, Yahoo today announced a revolutionary system tha will allow internet users to "search" for "things" and eventually "find" them too.
As part of that process, Yahoo also introduced a technique they are calling "hyperlinks" where users can "click" on a "search result" and actually see the result!
Yahoo predicts "lots" of people will be using this system real soon!
Innovation is everthing! Next they'll be offering up email and maybe even auctions
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Google releases Google Grocery Lists, techies go wild!
Yahoo unveils Perpetual Motion, techies respond with derisive sneer.
Carl
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