What's the diff between a pod cast & streaming the radio over the net?

[napi21]

O lee[ hearing Mike Malloy talk about buying the pod cast of his show to help keep him on the radio. I always stream his show live, and would be willing to pay the small amount he wants for the pod cast, but I don't understand how it would differ from what I have now.

[Critters2]

1. You download the podcast onto your Ipod or other mp3 player.

Live streaming you just listen to as it happens, on the net.

[napi21]

3. So if I don't have an MP3 or ipod, it doesn't matter? I want to help

Mike & Kathy, but it sounds stupid for me to pay for something I can't use.

[Critters2]

6. As far as I know. I think i-phones, and some of the other phones

can use podcasts, too.

[krispos42]

7. The podcast is a computer file

Once you download it, you have it forever. Including days or hours where you'd normally miss some of the show.

I keep podcasts on my hard drive... I have Thom Hartmann, Rachel Maddow, the free Stephanie Miller segments, Bill Maher, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, Car Talk, Ring of Fire, and Keith Olbermann going back for about a year now.

I put them on my iPod and bring them to work or on long car rides. I can also play them on my computer through the speakers whenever I want to.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. I just IPodded my first podcasts tonight, and will listen in bed, instead of

a book have on CD.

any good sites that list available free podcast sites?

how about online books that one can IPOD?

thx

[krispos42]

11. iTunes has a bunch of them. Look for the free ones.

The ones I listed above are all free.

As to books-on-tape for free, well, you'll have to do filesharing. Which is moderately illegal, of course.

[NashVegas]

22. I Think You're Going to Start Seeing Free Podcasts Dry Up

A lot of people who went into writing/photography/music and other media fields for a living, for relatively small salaries, have careers to protect. Meanwhile, bloggers and other freebie content providers who all have well-paying day jobs are starting to wake up and realize Google ads ain't going to cut it.

As more and more career writers realize how much more work they're doing for less money, you're going to start seeing them change their tune on free downloads.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Amy Goodman

Democracy Now has free podcasts.

[zeos3]

19. Along with the ones mentioned in post #7

and Democracy Now, check out Blast the Right on iTunes. Does the Young Turks have a pocast available?

Also check out PodcastAlley.com

[Canuckistanian]

2. Streaming=live, podcast=previously recorded

And if you always stream live, why not just hit the "record" button on your player? Then you have both.

[lapfog_1]

5. And send him the money anyway...

you don't HAVE to download the podcasts... but he is on his own now.

[Canuckistanian]

14. I didn't mean to take anything away from Mike

If I subscribed, I'd definitely get the podcasts.

High sample rate streaming is not for us dial-up people and a podcast takes hours to download.

When I'm finally able to get high-speed internet, I'll subscribe.

[Richard Steele]

10. So, "streaming" is configured for best-quality realtime interpolation, but "podcasting" blurts...

...files optomized for maximum download speed,
destined for decompression & viewing on a 'device to be named later'?

Is that what you're saying? I've always wondered about the difference
myself, and what you said makes sense to me...but I'm so out of touch
with the current geek lingo that I sometimes misunderstand the simplest things.
The last time I actually WROTE a program was 1985.

It's no sin to get old, it's just damned inconvenient.

[Canuckistanian]

12. Actually podcasts usually have MUCH better sound quality

Streaming audio has a lot more 'compression processing' to make it small and fast enough to play live.

And sometimes, podcasts are in stereo, when streaming isn't.

If you care about quality, get the podcast.

[Richard Steele]

15. So, bandwidth limitations limit STREAMING to "just good enough" quality levels...

...but podcasts compress FULL quality into their blurts?
That makes a lot of sense to me. I think I just UNDERSTOOD
something new!

Back when I was on an iMac with a cable connection,
the Hartmann Show in realtime kinda *FELT* like listening
to the radio at Grandpa Steele's house when I was a kid...
(except it didn't have "The HYMN of the HOUR" sponsored by
GARY'S Mobile & Modular Home Service...)

But the QUALITY of the stream was similar. Which is to say: LOW.

Thanks so much for taking time to explain these things to me.

I owe you one. :thumbsup:

Richard

[Canuckistanian]

16. Exactly

No probs. :hi:

[Richard Steele]

18. Wow, after all these years, I finally understand something related to computers!

Please never tell me anything about computers again-
just let me savor this moment for a decade or two.

By gum, it's BEEN a while!

[krispos42]

13. The streaming sound isn't usually anything special either

Remember, they have a lot of listeners at once and they have to pay for the bandwidth.



The bit rate and sampling frequency of a podcast is perfectly acceptable for a talk radio show, IMO. No scratchiness or harshness that I've ever been able to hear.


:shrug:

Thom Hartmann, for example, runs about 22 megs for 46 minutes, about a half-meg per minute, and a 128-kbit stereo 44 MHz-sampling music recording runs about a meg a minute.

Olbermann's show is 10 megs for 43 minutes.

[patrice]

4. You can get a whole library of podcasts on your iPod to re-listen to whenever, wherever.

I listen to stuff at work a lot, when I'm doing something that I don't need to think about.

Streaming, live, or archival files, has to be done at your computer.

[CreekDog]

8. a podcast is a portable file

streaming radio requires a high speed connection constantly to play.

[ConsAreLiars]

20. The podcasts are recordings you can listen to or share with others at a later time, and

haveall the commercials stripped out. Subscribing also gives you access to some other stuff, like a weekly or so video of Mike reading his uncensored hate mail, and who knows what else might be added.

But the main point in subscribing, for me, is that it helps support his show and keep it going. Of course, if you are just asking "what's in it for me?" and that isn't enough of an answer, I can't help you.

[B Calm]

21. I'm sure you know what a pod cast is by now. No commercials and

is sweet too. You can buy a cheap little 1GB MP3 player for less than ten bucks now days. 1GB mp3 player can hold an unbelievable amount of pod casts. For less than 5 dollars on e bay you can buy an FM transmitter. You plug the transmitter into a cigarette lighter and the other end into the mp3 player and you can listen to it through your car radio. Really sweet on long trips or even a short commute to work or to the grocery store!