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Re: Why not a Looper's Delight Podcast ?

On 31 mar 2007, at 13.38, andy butler wrote:

> ps,
> do you need iTunes to listen?


There are several accurate answers to that question, all covering the  
area between "yes" and "no" ;-))

A podcast is made up of a RSS document posted to an online server. In  
this RSS code different tags  tell if this is an enhanced podcast,  
with the option to include links and pictures in synchronization to  
the music (like a Power Point show), or if it's an old type of  
podcast that simply transmits an audio file together with text  
documentation. The RSS document also include links to the audio files  
that are to be transmitted. These audio files can be MP3 compressed  
or AAC compressed. For an enhanced podcast it has to be AAC for the  
picture sync to work. These files typically have end with m4a, m4b or  
m4p. I'm not completely sure, but I think they need iTunes to play  
back. Anyone else know for sure?

Normally the URL of the RSS document, that runs the show, is  
submitted to Apple's iTunes Music Store so it can be searchable. As  
usual, the problem with Apple is that they don't allow anyone to look  
behind curtains, so there is no way to get statistics for downloads.  
Another company, http://www.feedburner.com, offers a free service of  
setting up a kind of "hi-jack route link" between the index RSS  
document and iTMS. At least that's how I have understood how they  
achieve what they're doing. If you go with Feedburner you get the  
statistics, but at the same time you give up yet another level of  
control. It's really a jungle out there ;-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)
http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
http://tinyurl.com/2kek7h (CC donationware music releases)