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Current Podcast Rundown
Jun. 16th, 2014 01:11 amIt's been nearly eight months since I started listening to podcasts on my commute, so I figured I'd provide an update on what-all I'm listening to.
Updates on previously listed items:
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New since then:
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Strategy:
There are some podcasts where I actually want to hear things in their back catalog. Every now and then I dip into these. I try not to have the same producer in a row (exception: NPR).
I have a podcast playlist which goes on the iPod. Every night when I sync my iPod, I pull the latest unplayed episodes off the All Unplayed list of podcasts, and stuff them into my traveling playlist. I maintain no more than 1-2 days worth of audio on that list. More than that is silly and eats room that my music should be on. (I also have a Filler Podcast Noise list, which grabs five episodes apiece from five podcast sources that I could conceivably fall asleep while listening to.)
After I get the things on the playlist, I move the latest Rachel Maddow to (near) the top of the list, where I'll hear it in the morning. I also move anything that looks important. Then I try to balance by alternating long podcasts with short ones and trying to spread around various different content sources so they're not all jammed up together.
I go through about 3.5 hours of podcast on an average car commute day, less if I'm talking to Nora or Drewface, more if I run extra errands. I think I might be going through audio slightly faster than it's arriving, but with a 300+ item backlog, I'm not feeling insecure in my entertainment any time soon.
If I do get down to a reasonably small backlog (say, less than a day) I may try to automate the regular listening list-building, but that's going to take some time.
Equipment:
iTunes. I can work with it, mostly.
iPod. 4th gen Touch.
Bluetooth headset. Plantronics. Fancy. It can connect to two devices at once, and will pause and resume the music on the iPod according to the phone traffic.
I set out by turning the headset on, where it connects to both devices. I set the iPod to play, and leave the player screen with focus (or else the playback won't restart). If I'm going to dial, I dial before starting to drive (I haven't adequately mastered the address book functions through this headset/phone combo yet; redial is still simple). If the call drops, the iPod starts back up when I've done it right.
The iPod shows me with a little orange docking arrow when it will play the audio through the headset. I check for this -- I've learned that when I walk out of range of the iPod with the bluetooth headset on, the bluetooth docking icon disappears and doesn't reset the docking until I delete and re-pair the headset. I've gotten very good at deleting and re-pairing the headset.
The audio over bluetooth sometimes goes out when the wifi is connecting. This does not please me.
Sometimes the time bar, jump-back, jump-forward, and speed control disappears from the iPod. I hate it when this happens, and the internet is a little fuzzy on how to fix that, it seems to be with some sort of corruption in the playback length or some such.
Updates on previously listed items:
( Read more... )
New since then:
( Read more... )
Strategy:
There are some podcasts where I actually want to hear things in their back catalog. Every now and then I dip into these. I try not to have the same producer in a row (exception: NPR).
I have a podcast playlist which goes on the iPod. Every night when I sync my iPod, I pull the latest unplayed episodes off the All Unplayed list of podcasts, and stuff them into my traveling playlist. I maintain no more than 1-2 days worth of audio on that list. More than that is silly and eats room that my music should be on. (I also have a Filler Podcast Noise list, which grabs five episodes apiece from five podcast sources that I could conceivably fall asleep while listening to.)
After I get the things on the playlist, I move the latest Rachel Maddow to (near) the top of the list, where I'll hear it in the morning. I also move anything that looks important. Then I try to balance by alternating long podcasts with short ones and trying to spread around various different content sources so they're not all jammed up together.
I go through about 3.5 hours of podcast on an average car commute day, less if I'm talking to Nora or Drewface, more if I run extra errands. I think I might be going through audio slightly faster than it's arriving, but with a 300+ item backlog, I'm not feeling insecure in my entertainment any time soon.
If I do get down to a reasonably small backlog (say, less than a day) I may try to automate the regular listening list-building, but that's going to take some time.
Equipment:
iTunes. I can work with it, mostly.
iPod. 4th gen Touch.
Bluetooth headset. Plantronics. Fancy. It can connect to two devices at once, and will pause and resume the music on the iPod according to the phone traffic.
I set out by turning the headset on, where it connects to both devices. I set the iPod to play, and leave the player screen with focus (or else the playback won't restart). If I'm going to dial, I dial before starting to drive (I haven't adequately mastered the address book functions through this headset/phone combo yet; redial is still simple). If the call drops, the iPod starts back up when I've done it right.
The iPod shows me with a little orange docking arrow when it will play the audio through the headset. I check for this -- I've learned that when I walk out of range of the iPod with the bluetooth headset on, the bluetooth docking icon disappears and doesn't reset the docking until I delete and re-pair the headset. I've gotten very good at deleting and re-pairing the headset.
The audio over bluetooth sometimes goes out when the wifi is connecting. This does not please me.
Sometimes the time bar, jump-back, jump-forward, and speed control disappears from the iPod. I hate it when this happens, and the internet is a little fuzzy on how to fix that, it seems to be with some sort of corruption in the playback length or some such.
