 Monday, September 20, 2004
iPodder, say what?
Remember the days you were staying up late to be able to press the record button to record your favorite radio show? I know, those where the days. Well nowadays, no more pressing buttons and staying up late cause iPodder is here. Adam Curry originally came up with the idea to consume and publish audio using a feature of rss called enclosures. Enclosures are a bit like attachments in email but different. iPodder grabs rss feeds, you specify, and starts downloading files in the enclosure tag. Downloading starts at intervals you choose yourself. Ok so far the 'first' implementation of an almost 4 year old technology. Here comes the fun part. You have bandwidth and you have some sort of MP3 device and you would like to wake up in the morning finding your favorite audio stored on your MP3 apparatus, ready to go. The iPodder scripts make this possible. You can add audio files automatically to your iTunes or media player and copy them to your MP3 device, be it an iPod connected through firewire or an USB MP3 device. iPodder scripts come in several flavors. There is a windows scripting version, iSpider a nice python implementation an applescript version , a tool for Radio Userland and there is even more Sounds cool? Well it kinda is! Ok, downloading hundreds of megabytes every day because you have subscribed to feed with a lot of big enclosures like MOTW, Freeflow Radio or Deep Rhythms might not be all that. But hey what the hell, join the revolution and help make iPodder better. Looking for enclosure enabled feeds, you find some here.
Check out the bonus I enclosure, not safe for low bandwidth [NSFLB]
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