Good Podcasts and Podcatchers? 90
Chimera512 asks: "I've heard quite a bit about podcasts and software for aggregating podcasts, most of the software I've tried to use have been mediocre at best. where do you find podcasts that are worth listening to? What do you use to aggregate them? Ideally something that allows me to simply copy the stream URL into the program and have it download and/or transfer the file to my MP3 player."
Mozilla Thunderbird (Score:1)
iTunes? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:iTunes? (Score:1)
And yes, in iTunes just click the little download button next to a particular episode of a subscription to download a particular one. And if you don't want one on your iPod that you have downloaded, uncheck it. If you want one back on your iPod that has "expired" (they do this after a certain amount of time), just check it. Th
Re:iTunes? (Score:1)
Finding good podcasts is a challenge. Everyone has different tastes, and there's a lot of just plain crap out there. But here are a some that I like:
National Public Radio [npr.org] has lots of good news-related podcasts. The NPR Story of the Day cast is worth a listen, and Wait... Wait Don't Tell Me is hilarious.
Coverville [coverville.com] is a popular music podcast. The show's host i
Re:iTunes? (Score:1)
Here's one! CBC Radio 3 [radio3.cbc.ca].
New music, many styles. Available in M4A, MP3, and OGG Vorbis.
Re:iTunes? (Score:2)
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Come on, Apple. Open
Re:iTunes? (Score:3, Informative)
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I subscribe to very few (Score:4, Interesting)
Podcast feed: http://webjay.org/by/iancr/zoe5c27sradioshow.xml [webjay.org]
Then let's not forget the (supershort but funny) Onion Radio News [theonion.com].
When BSG's on air, Ron Moore's podcasts [scifi.com] are also good listening.
Hint... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Hint... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Hint... (Score:1)
Re:Hint... (Score:1)
Re:Hint... (Score:1)
But in the spirit of Friday afternoon, let's call it a draw and go home...
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Don't look any farther (Score:2, Insightful)
In terms of podcasts, though, you really need to find ones you like. I listen to Gaming Steve (http://www.gamingsteve.com/ [gamingsteve.com]) but that's MY taste. You need to find what you like for yourself.
Fitzghon
Re:Don't look any farther (Score:4, Informative)
While iTunes works well for this, some of us still don't own iPods, and don't like installing a huge program like iTunes just for the podcasting feature.
My current favorite is winamp [winamp.com], although if Democracy Player [getdemocracy.org] ever became stable, it would be #1 in my book.
The only Podcast I listen to is The Frequency [m88.org], dedicated primarily to Christian Music News, reviews, and interviews. (without being super cheesy)
iTunes not much use on Linux (Score:2)
And some of us don't run Windoze or MacOS. There's this crazy new thing called "Linux" out there these days - maybe some of you Slashdot folks have heard of it?
Browse (Score:4, Informative)
iTunes (Score:2, Insightful)
I've found that the only podcasts I end up listening to on a regular basis are the NPR ones (you can either get
Good Podcasts (Score:1)
The Signal; A podcast about Firefly and Serenity.
http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/ [serenityfirefly.com]
TWIT; Basically Leo Laporte and his crew talk about tech stuff for an hour.
http://www.twit.tv/ [www.twit.tv]
Slice of SciFi; for all the science fiction news you could shake a stick at.
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/ [sliceofscifi.com]
FireflyTalk is good too...
http://fireflytalk.libsyn.com/ [libsyn.com]
Word of Mouth and iTunes (Score:3, Insightful)
I'd say that right now it comes down to luck and word of mouth. I'm finding that I tend to stick to content from "professional" broadcasters. So much of the rest of existing podcasts are "produced" by half drunk frat boys being potty mouths and playing indy rock.
As far as clients, iTunes really does podcasts pretty well. iPodder, at least on my old PC seemed to be a resource hog in some fashion.
mplayer (Score:1, Interesting)
ExtraLife Radio (Score:1)
My list (Score:1, Interesting)
As for RSS feed readers/podcatchers (another hated word mashup), I still use the original Juice [sourceforge.net] receiver (previously calle
Podcasting info (Score:1)
Juice Receiver formerly iPodder (Score:5, Informative)
[1] http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
[2] http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/faq/index.ph
[3] http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/docs/JuiceUs
IT Conversations (Score:1)
Instead, check out IT Conversations [itconversations.com]. Hopefully others will suggest additional similar sources of high quality interviews and talks beyond just the NPR stuff, which often tends to be a rehash of what appeared on the Interweb several days earlier.
Re:IT Conversations (Score:2)
My favorite, however, is TrailCast [trailcast.org]. It is for hikers and focuses on long-haul thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, etc.
Sound quality is good. The guy who produces it has done a great job of setting up a high quality recording studio in his bathroom [trailcast.org]. :-)
My biggest beef with 95% of podcasts is that they are made with $5 microphones on a big, noisy PC and it shows.
Trailcast sounds great and the content is always cool. I love listening to ta
Re:IT Conversations (Score:1)
That's hard core, if not hard to believe. If you walk 4 miles an hour, which is a pretty fast pace especially carrying a pack, that's over 10 hours of solid walking a day. If it's true, these guys are not experiencing much of the trails compared to what normal hikers would.
Figure up at six, hit the trail by 6:30, eat on the run, take an hour's worth of 10 minute breaks during the day, plus an hour for lunch, and an hour to make camp. Tha
Re:IT Conversations (Score:2)
The first guy goes by the trail name "Flyin' Brian" (Brian Robinson) and he was the first to hike all three trails in one year. The second guy, Mat Hazley (trail-name Squeaky), was the first to hike them all without skipping around. Brian switched from the AT to the Continental Divide Trail so that he could avoid the deep snows in New England and then came back to the AT to finish.
Squeaky didn't cook. He said he ate poptarts for breakfast t
NPR (Score:2)
Check your local [wamu.org] stations [weta.org] as well.
http://www.codesermon.org/ (Score:1)
Podget (Score:1)
Why sit and wait for downloads when its time to go?
Re:Podget (Score:1)
Its audio pornography and hilarious.
KDE / Zen Nomad (Score:1)
Juice (Score:2)
Science podcasts (little offtopic) (Score:1)
Sometimes I just browse through iTunes podcast library for certain keywords (eg literature english) and then sort it by popularity. Many times you will get the better ones (eg from BBC or stanford radio etc) and not some random dude ranting in his basement.
And sometimes I just lurk for questions like these where other users tell about their favorite podcasts and then I go and check them out ..
Free Talk Live (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Free Talk Live (Score:3, Informative)
They're not the normal "hey, let's go buy a $100 microphone and record ourselves talking shit then put it on a webpage" podcast. (You [podshow.com] know [keithandthegirl.com] who [podshow.com] you are) They're a syndicated [freetalklive.com] radio show that's been putting their archives up for download completely free since day one, almost three and a half years ago, when these "podcast" things existed, but there wasn't even a bandwagon to jump on yet.
Since they're primarily a radio show, the audio quality and production values are much higher than most other p
Re:Free Talk Live (Score:1)
Re:meh (Score:2, Interesting)
I've also found Penn Jillette's [freefm.com] podcast to be entertaining, even if I don't agree with everything he says.
Dammit! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dammit! (Score:1)
I mean, it's not like they'll notice the dupe.
Simple, look at your MP3 player, and your interest (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Simple, look at your MP3 player, and your inter (Score:2, Interesting)
Free Talk Live (Score:1)
Re:Free Talk Live (Score:1)
I Agree... Free Talk Live [freetalklive.com] is Great! Listening to it is the most important part of my day. I highly recommend it -- it may change your life.
I also enjoy:
I wrote my own personal aggregator...it's similar to bashpodder...it is just a PHP script to download them every day.
Re:Free Talk Live (Score:1)
I can't believe no one said this yet... (Score:2)
Obviously the best out there for new music is The Indie Sermons of the Rt. Rev Fischer [vdov.net] (RSS [feedburner.com]).
I might be biased because its mine.
More seriously there are some from a non-geek perspective (it's good to get out a bit):
Dreadful Snake Radio [libsyn.com] (RSS [libsyn.com]
A middle aged former musician turned corporate guy. He mixes his love of folk/blues in with his world travels. It is a little "what I did today" but what he does daily is amazing. Everything from podcasting while doing a 5k with his son, while biking in Beijing
Music Podcasts (Score:1)
My favorite music podcasts, though, are:
The Beat Oracle [beatoracle.net] (Downtempo Electronica and smart hip-hop)
The Data Sound [blogspot.com] (Indie Alternative with some eclectic touches)
the letter g [theletterg.org] (very eclectic from week to w
Finding good Podcasts (Score:2)
The focus of this podcast is reasonably specific : electro,new wave, goth, industrial, ebm, synth, electroclash, new wave
http://www.bloosqr.com/ [bloosqr.com]
When I first started advertising I have posted to all the 'aggregators" and I can tell you from looking
at my logs, no one comes from those things. The Itunes searching thing works reasonably well. What does work is looking at myspace/livejournal groups that have similar interests at least for electro/synth..
So I wou
Scott Sigler (and others) and Wizz RSS (Score:2)
A good news podcast (Score:1)
If you're interested in learning Japanese... (Score:1)
iTunes Agent (Score:4, Interesting)
iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/ [apple.com]
iTunes Agent - use any MP3 player with iTunes
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=5
My Morning Playlist
Nature Podcast (science journal)
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/ [nature.com]
NPR 5-minute News Summary
NPR Health & Science
NPR Technology
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.
Democracy NOW! (news - better than NPR in some ways)
http://democracynow.org/podcast_help.shtml#feeds [democracynow.org]
Diggnation (latest general blog news from digg.com)
http://revision3.com/diggnation [revision3.com]
This Week in Tech (weekly tech news)
http://twit.tv/podcastinfo [twit.tv]
Security Now! (tech/security news)
http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm [grc.com]
President's Weekly Radio Address (comedy)
http://weeklyradioaddress.com/ [weeklyradioaddress.com]
and I used to listen to Ricky Gervais (comedy), but he charges $$ now.
http://www.rickygervais.com/podcast.php [rickygervais.com]
Free Talk Live (freetalklive.com) (Score:1)
Left Right And Center (Score:2)
Re:Left Right And Center (Score:1)
Good Podcasts (Score:2)
ChinesePod
JapanesePod101
Nature Podcast (as in the scientific journal)
NOVA | PBS
Battlestar Galactica Commentary
NPR's Science Friday
Scientific American Podcast
Slacker Astronomy
The Beat Oracle
The Onion Radio News
Re:Good Podcasts (Score:2)
Piddlepodder (Score:2)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/piddlepodder [sourceforge.net]
Hope this helps!
Subscribe frequently, unsubscribe without remorse (Score:2)
Suggestions From Friends (Score:1)
BashPodder; iPod Shuffle Database Builder (Score:2)
For better reccomendations, you might give us an idea of which OS you're using, if you have always-on internet, whether you'd prefer to grab content at least once a day or manually (with o
Juice (Score:2)
As far as Podcasts go here are some of my favorites:
Coverville [coverville.com] : An excellent podcast devoted to covers. Always excellent.
Reel Reviews Radio [reelreviewsradio.com] : Short (and the occasional Cinephile long-form) discussions of various films. The subtitle of "Films Worth Watching" proba
Use a podcast directory (Score:2)
my favorite podcasts (Score:1)
I have heard of a good windows based aggregator (Score:1)
I usually find my podcasts on iTunes, but occasionally use Podcast Alley [podcastalley.com] to search for topics I like. Listen to a few and unsubscribe from the bad ones.
I like the PC Gamer Podcast [pcgamerpodcast.com] and am still trying out the PSP podcasts from PG Revolution [pgrevolution.com] not 100% sold on it yet, but it has held my interest for a few weeks now.
Lugradio (Score:1)
ipodder (Score:2)
Podcast time capsule (Score:1)
http://www.millionsecondshomepage.com/list.php [millionsec...mepage.com]