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Good article. Podcasts still have a 'Web 2.0', pre-Facebook ethos: there's a feed, and there are software clients that check the feed and get a direct link to t
by firasd 10y ago
Good article. Podcasts still have a 'Web 2.0', pre-Facebook ethos: there's a feed, and there are software clients that check the feed and get a direct link to the mp3 file. Personally, I want to make a site that archives podcast episode listings, and guess what? If I have the time and energy, I can make it. Getting the data--new episodes, episode descriptions, cover images--is not an issue. The more that top publishers want Apple to introduce tracking, revenue sharing, etc. the more all related data would get centralized, and as Marco points out, in the long run podcast publishers might start resenting Apple for becoming a major intermediary, the same way online publishers resent decisions made by Facebook.
- frou_dh 10y agoThis† got written 'cos I was alarmed by some podcasts being published solely as YouTube videos with unchanging visuals! It munges such perversion into audio files and proper podcast feeds. † https://github.com/frou/yt2pod https://github.com/frou/yt2pod
- edraferi 10y agoThat is truely awful.
- fadzlan 10y agoNot sure why you think its awful. If you have a Youtube Channel which is not very visual centric, use this and you get a podcast, viola! If you use this on other people's content, that doesn't really make any sense. Audio is not tech, its highly personal and you can't plagiarize the whole thing and claim it your own when the dude in question doesn't sound you at all. And unlike video which might present various things, podcast mostly centers on the presenter itself. In other words, it kinda defeats the purpose to use this tool as a plagiarism tool since most podcast is created to create a following, around the presenter's voice.
- Synaesthesia 10y agoWhat I've also realized is its not as bandwidth inefficient as you might think, the video with a still image is gonna compress down to almost nothing.
- tamana 10y agoYT audio means awful, not the cconversion tool.
- draw_down 10y agoIs there somewhere else that will host your podcast audio files for you, for free? If not, well, there you go.
- astro1138 10y agoarchive.org
- Kadin 10y agoNice work and I'm bookmarking that, although I sincerely hope not to use it.
- izacus 10y agoAnd that's before Apple starts banning all podcasts like Serial which talk about potentially sensitive and/or offensive topics.