Time-Shifting For The iPod 173
depechemodem writes "This story at ExtremeiPod talks about a new piece of software from Adam Curry called iPodder (now at Sourceforge) which uses RSS feeds with MP3 enclosures to stream audio to iTunes. The best part is that those streams can be saved as clips automatically on to your iPod or other MP3 player for later listening making this the first portable time-shifted Internet audio application. The code is alse being ported to Windows."
What a load of garbage (Score:5, Informative)
Re:huh? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:A little bit offtopic : Some help needed. (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.ipodlounge.com/ [ipodlounge.com]
Lots of good links, reviews and discussion there about all things iPod (software and hardware related).
Cheers.
Re:a whoosawhats it now? (Score:5, Informative)
More like a crippled DAT hooked up to a digital tuner with an Internet connection. You couldn't exactly tell your tape recorder to only record such and such a show on this, this, and that station without manual intervention. You also wouldn't exactly have digital audio.
Re:A little bit offtopic : Some help needed. (Score:3, Informative)
I don't have a PC, but I use Pod2Go [kainjow.com] to do a whole bunch of neat stuff, including keeping an auto-synced backup of my important files, like my iPhoto library.
Re:A little bit offtopic : Some help needed. (Score:4, Informative)
If you go to Versiontracker [versiontracker.com] you will find lots of cool software for the iPod and for iTunes if you enter iPod in their search box.
this is new? (Score:2, Informative)
What about Replay Radio (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What can't the iPod do? (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe the concept of people extending the use of something is new to you, or you are simply a iPod zealot (I will automatically get modded down as troll for that)
Either way, modification/changes/additions to electronic devices has always happened. Ever use a Sega Dreamcast, PSX, Xbox, DirectTV etc.... The few things around for the iPod are nothing compared to those.
Re:Wow, Adam Curry (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Trademarks and copyrights (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.loundy.com/CASES/MTV_v_Curry.html/ [loundy.com]
The First? (Score:2, Informative)
Newsflash - RMS takes world's first crap! Read it only on /.
Re:A little bit offtopic : Some help needed. (Score:3, Informative)
Don't forget hymn [hymn-project.org]. It allows you to convert protected AAC files that you purchase through the iTunes Music Store to unprotected AAC files that can be played back on any device, or with any piece of software, that supports AAC.
Just be sure to backup the original protected AAC file somewhere just in case. Oh and I wouldn't be sharing these unprotected files on any P2P service. It does remove the DRM, but it doesn't remove certain tags within the file (called atoms) that can uniquely identify the user who purchased it. There are other pieces of software available that can remove those, but I'm not going to post any links.
Re:What a load of garbage (Score:5, Informative)
Morning Edition begins broadcasting at ~5AM Pacific time, and repeats its programming several times during its timeslot. (At least here in Seattle.)
Many people's morning commute does not involve a car. The radio reception I got on the bus was always really crappy, so I've given up listening to a lot of radio. This might be a solution.
Re:Wow, Adam Curry (Score:5, Informative)
I have his blog in my RSS feed - he occasionally posts up photos of him and various people.
He has been doing radio shows (even wen to Iraq and did some coverage there), has owned a series of tech start ups that apparently did fairly well (at least for him), and he also flies planes/helicopters.
Re:What can't the iPod do? (Score:3, Informative)
Streamers for OS X (Score:3, Informative)
It's freeware; source is included; and I've just put up a sourceforge site for it.
Re:"Timeshifted" (Score:5, Informative)
Uh, well, it's not really all that new. It came about with the inital advent of VCRs.
Well, not really. "Time-shifting", as a term, came about because there was something new about it, namely that you could watch what was being recorded while it was being recorded, but at a different point in time than what was recording at that moment. Obviously, that's a mouthful to say, hence the term "time-shifting". It was new to the digital world, and it's a big deal because it lets you, say, pause live TV and go make a sandwich, or start watching an 8 PM program at 8:03 without missing anything, or whatever. A VCR can't do that. (You'd have to record the entire show, then start watching at the beginning once it's over.)
"Time-shifting" is different than just recording and watching/listening later. So this iPodder thing may be a bit of a misnomer; it may not do true time-shifting. It has to be able to play the clips you're recording as you're recording them, at any point in the stream. Just "saving clips" to listen to later is not time-shifting.
Missing the point (Score:4, Informative)
1) The program uses encapusization in RSS feeds to grab media from timely updated web sites.
2) The program stores the media and transfers it to the iPod by way of iTunes.
It does not "record broadcasts from streams" any more than using Kazaa to download videos allows you to fast-forward through the boring bits in porn.
Essentially it expands on new RSS tools that give media sites the ability to post recently updated media resources.
Content? (Score:3, Informative)
I mean, as much as I like listening to IT babble all day, I get enough of that at work, and after work, and with my friends, etc. Sure would be nice if NPR, or CNN, or any new site not related to hard-core IT or crazy eclectic blogging supported RSS 2.0 with enclosures....
What iPodder is! (Score:3, Informative)
RSS is just an XML file, one of the tags is an enclosure tag, that tag specifies a link to an MP3 file of a new audio program that the author has posted online.
When the iPodder aggregator is run it checks for new MP3 files and downloads them into a playlist (Windows Media, iTunes, ect) that you can later sync up to a portable player.
Why is this needed? hell that should be simple for anyone using an aggregator at all. Its just easier to have this stuff come to you then for you to go out and be on the look out for new 'IT Conversations' or 'The Daily Source Code' episodes.
Yes the concept is simple, and very basic but it didn't exist before, so this fills a hole that a lot of listeners to these types of shows really needed.
After reading some of the comments about iPodder, I was more than a little confused on how so many people could wrap their heads around what iPodder does, I hope this helps (sorry that is late in coming)