Saturday, December 13, 2003

UnSilence on RSS Enclosures and iTunes RSS Enclosure Integration

RSS Enclosures...Playlists...getting chatted up over at Lucas' and Doc is pointing to TestRadio. And I'm thinking about iTunes. But First, a soundtrack for the post...

Pushing the Play Thing allows you to you Listen to Unsilent Night by Phil Kline. Performed by You and Me, Saturday night in San Diego Downtown, 6:40 pm PT gathering, 7 pm, hit the Play Thing and stroll.

Click on the little forward thingy to start it

MP3 4.7MB

I think I mentioned iTunes a day or two ago, but here's the search I did on Google: iTunes RSS enclosure integration. Not much. Not what I'm looking for.

Why can't iTunes be an RSS Playlist Editor? And support for Quicktime / MP4 / MP3 so that the enclosures just play in order, like a playlist should. Display the posts and serve the multimedia content to your iPod, for instance. I bet someone's on this...?

Enjoy the holiday tunes. This post should really be read over the tunes and served to you. Complete Blog in Audio. Coming...Unsilently...To A Device Near You...
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Props To Lucas and Grant for Props On TNJT

Yo Yo Yo...VO getting some props on our RSS Enclosure Thing...Bob Gibb's legacy lives on....

  • Lucas: "Tantalizing"

    Dude! I had a "tantalizing" Thing!! Thanks Lucas.

    And he touches on the fact that RSS Readers just haven't kept pace with the presentation side of RSS Enclosures. There just needs to be an RSS Reader that can play any RSS Stream like it plays any other multimedia stream, like streamed MP3 or Quicktime. Another way to think about it is to make Media Players RSS Enclosure Stream Aware. Why can't the Quicktime player or MS Powerpoint or ???? be able to read RSS and allow me to push the Play button. And allow me to interact with it like I do with a blog post - read the text, click a link, play the embeded audio / video. And an option to just continuously play through the RSS Enclosures in the stream. I'm thinking about this for handhelds and Internet (Satellite) radios in (Network)cars...connected to the Internet from anywhere and RSS Enclosure powered. Hootie Hoo!

  • Grant begins...
    : "...all the other shows I have seen online in the format are real radio shows, the internet is just a second distribution method.

    That's true Radio Props! He must not have had the wild TNJT Live experience yet...a real radio show. Except it's totally vounteered, and pretty improvised...and Grant's got the idea and that where we're heading with TNJT...

    " It's like newspapers being put online. What we have yet to see is radio shows created like blogs, where they are made specifically for distribution over the internet and aren't done in a professional way at all (as can been seen by how crappy TestRadio is.

    I'll have to check out TestRadio. As for me, I want to take the blog and perform it Live each week. Live the blog and perform it on TNJT Live on Jazz 88. Nothing less. And use the Live show Live elements, like the Live interviews, feed back into the blog. And use others writing / performing / observing / blogging to feed back into the blog. And then the show. And I think doing this feedback loop on The TNJT Tunes (played on the Live show) would make for one heck of a Jazz community feeding New Jazz Things into the blog. And the show. Imagine what the RSS Enclosure for those Tune postings could contain...tunes...streamlink...promo video...band news...

    Thanks again for the props...it is inspiring...

    Did I mention sleep back there....
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  • He's Probably Been Briefed on This Just a Little Bit?

    Did anyone else flintch watching President Bush in some statement or answer or something related to the Haliburton Overcharges / Investigation. He, at the least, didn't look very prepared for say what he did. He didn't sound Presidential at a time when everyone's trying to, seems like.

    http://Feedroom.com had the video of what I thought I saw. I captured it....enclosure to come. Well...sort of captured it...the essence...maybe...

    Sorry again, I believe for a 4-or-so-MB download that will happen automatically until I'm wiser...for now, the Quicktime player shows the blue-Q until it gets the file started (or the Q is ripped if there is problems...help to come...anyway...

    Click on the little forward thingy to start it

    QT MOV 4.2MB

    Related thoughts...

  • TiVo-clips to blog. http://NPR.org to blog. http://NPRJazz.org to blog. Digital video. Digital audio. To THIS blog near you...
  • Streaming the in-blog video via RTSP. The download is for those using RSS Readers supporting enclosures. This is the future.
  • Saving this in MPEG-4 video. Standard. Quicktime reader can support it just like Quicktime format and MP3.
  • Getting some sleep....
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