DGN Radio ever consider?

[Vater Araignee]

Troy I was wondering if you ever considered pod casting rather than streaming.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Podcasting is essentially streaming, just via the podcast format as far as i understand it no? Same thing , different hardware , right? Still need a stream provider to handle the bandwidth suckage no?

[Vater Araignee]

From what I understand it's just an mp3 that you can start listening to before its downloaded. Which is why they call the podcast a feed.

[Vater Araignee]

Podcasting info

What is Podcasting? The word “podcast” is a concatenation of the words iPod and broadcast. The underlying technology used for podcasts, called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is capable of containing any type of media including audio, video, graphics, and more. 

Podcasting is a way of publishing podcasts to the web, allowing people to subscribe to a podcast and receive new "episodes" automatically through an RSS feed. Podcasting consists of publishing XML files which contain references to media (called “enclosures”) to a website. Podcast aggregators (often called “podcatchers”), then read these XML files and download all the linked enclosures.

Unlike terrestrial and Internet radio, podcasts are time-shifted, meaning that listeners have control over when and where they hear their favorite programming. And, the episodes are delivered automatically to a subscriber on iTunes so the latest updates are always readily available with no effort required by the listener.

Podcasts offer iTunes users and iPod owners the same freedom and level of control they are familiar with when listening to their own personal music collections.

it aint just for I-pods any more :grin