Microtonal Podcasting - Intro to RSS for musicians

Microtonalists:

I've been exploring Podcasting. I think this may be a way for those of
us in the Microtonal music world to jumpstart our exposure to more
listeners. Podcasting is the process of making audio programs
available for subscription. Using RSS enclosures, you imbed an MP3
file inside an RSS feed, and people can subscribe to the feed to pick
up the day's broadcast and automatically download it to their iPod or
MP3 player.

Using tools like iPodder for the Mac and Doppler for Windows, you can
subscribe to feeds from a variety of sources, and the tools will
automatically download new content to a folder on your computer, and
then synch it up with a handheld MP3 player or iPod. The beauty of
this form is that it is super easy to listen to music and radio
programs on the go, in your car, while on a walk, waiting for the kids
at soccer, whatever. A list of content to subscribe to is posted
regularly on several web pages. I subscribe to a few daily broadcasts.
The best ones are listed at the bottom of this note.

Webjay, which Jeff Harrington uses to assemble playlists, supports
Podcasting. Just drag the "Podcast" link from the Webjay playlist to
the Doppler window and all changes to the playlist will trigger an
automatic download of the new songs. Some of radio stations make
available content for subscription as well.

I've started a Podcast for microtonal music. Over some "background
music" I talk about what the piece will consist of, and then play the
music. The site looks like a regular blog, but with some magic in the
background thanks to Feedburner, you can drop a link on iPodder or
Doppler and subscribed to every post on the site. Every day a new
fragment will appear on your iPod or MP3 player. To see the blog, try
http://podcast1024.blogspot.com. Or if you are ready for true
podcasting, add the feed link http://feeds.feedburner.com/Podcast1024
to your RSS reader or iPodder.

Indiefeed, at http://blindingflashes.blogs.com/indie_feed/ accepts
Podcasts and collects music from people who support the Creative
Commons copyright standard. People who want to assemble Podcasts of
their own, can grab a complete intro-voiceover-music-voiceover-outro,
with 95% of the cast being music. Podcast producers then can pad their
Podcast with music that explains itself. The person who runs the site
would be willing to host a new category for Microtonal Music, if we
can commit to a steady stream of posts.

If anyone is interested, I would be glad to add the intro-voiceover &
-voiceover-outro to your music if you send me permission and a URL,
and a short description of the music that I could read.

For more on Podcasting, see

definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
Samples: http://www.ipodder.org/
Indiefeed: http://blindingflashes.blogs.com/indie_feed/
My blog: http://podcast1024.blogspot.com
My feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Podcast1024

If you already know how to receive podcasts, subscribe to these to get
a feel for the style.

In the Trenches: http://kevindevin.com/wp-rss2.php - talks about
Information Technology issues
The Daily Source Code:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/rss.xml -
the most professional Podcaster out there. Kind of like an FM radio
jockey.
Northwest Public Radio: http://www.nwpr.org/rss/articles.aspx - radio
spots that appear on Public Radio stations in Oregon and Washington
IT Conversations:
http://www.itconversations.com/rss/recentWithEnclosures.php - Great
discussions and public speeches by people in the IT industry
Jeff Harrington's list:
http://webjay.org/by/idealord/mikrotonal-experimentaltuningmusic.xml -
a nice mix of tunes
Future Tense:
http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/podcast.xml - American
Public Media on Politics
The last 100 Podcasts: http://audio.weblogs.com/ - A directory of
recent podcasts by everyone
Air America Al Franken:
http://www.airamericaradio.com/weblogs/alfrankenshow/index.php - needs
no introduction to lefties everywhere

Prent Rodgers

Prent,

{you wrote...}
>I've been exploring Podcasting.

Fascinating post! This may be the last reason I needed to move up to cable access.

Oh, yes: "What? No .ogg????" :)

Cheers,
Jon