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azurelunatic) wrote2014-06-16 01:11 am
azurelunatic) wrote2014-06-16 01:11 am
Current Podcast Rundown
It'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:
The Nerdist: Generally fun, but on notice for various sub-threshold obnoxious bits about women and fans.
Competitive Erotic Fanfiction: the good parts were good, but the rape as humor got old fast. Unsubscribed.
Today We Learned: Scrubbed too many of these for various reasons, unsubscribed.
Nerdist Writers Panel: Generally fun, but on notice for various sub-threshold obnoxious bits about women and fans.
How I Met Your Mother: podcast stopped updating before I broke up with the show on the series finale.
KQED: This Week in Northern California: Wasn't updating. Unsubscribed.
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: as ever, now with a new introduction guy.
Fresh Air: as ever; I've been locating and marking as played the weekend repeats unless I really liked the story.
NPR World Story of the Day: still subscribed.
Rachel Maddow: Yay Rachel; alas that the TV format doesn't always translate to pure audio particularly well, though she does try.
Fandomania: Wasn't feeling it, unsubscribed.
SF Squeecast: always a joy.
Slashreport: ahh fandom, never leave me. <3
Welcome to Night Vale: Still good, but I discovered that I cannot listen to it while driving particularly well, since I want to hear the whole thing and road conditions will make me tune out and I'll miss stuff. This results in weekend binges occasionally. I'm once again up to date, however, so yay.
The Hidden Almanac: If I'm doing a hella early morning transit commute, I like to start my day with this. I also like it to space between the Night Vale when I'm doing a marathon listen if I haven't been able to catch up for a while.
New since then:
This American Life: I remember this fondly from more intensively radio listening days.
The Skiffy and Fanty Show: This is what I wanted out of Fandomania.
Perfecto Podcast featuring Paul Oakenfold: attempting to keep current on music, good for housework and/or exercise.
Tea and Jeopardy: Can't say I'm fond of the chickens except as their first introduction as a novelty, but the whole package is simply adorable. Writer Emma Newman hosts various other writers in her migratory Secret Tea Lair, as butler Latimer puts her guests in mild peril. I am totally not writing femslash of Emma and a fictitious academic from the Pegasus Galaxy.
Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap: I have finally listened through all the back episodes. I would be happy to play cards with these people.
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:
The Nerdist: Generally fun, but on notice for various sub-threshold obnoxious bits about women and fans.
Competitive Erotic Fanfiction: the good parts were good, but the rape as humor got old fast. Unsubscribed.
Today We Learned: Scrubbed too many of these for various reasons, unsubscribed.
Nerdist Writers Panel: Generally fun, but on notice for various sub-threshold obnoxious bits about women and fans.
How I Met Your Mother: podcast stopped updating before I broke up with the show on the series finale.
KQED: This Week in Northern California: Wasn't updating. Unsubscribed.
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: as ever, now with a new introduction guy.
Fresh Air: as ever; I've been locating and marking as played the weekend repeats unless I really liked the story.
NPR World Story of the Day: still subscribed.
Rachel Maddow: Yay Rachel; alas that the TV format doesn't always translate to pure audio particularly well, though she does try.
Fandomania: Wasn't feeling it, unsubscribed.
SF Squeecast: always a joy.
Slashreport: ahh fandom, never leave me. <3
Welcome to Night Vale: Still good, but I discovered that I cannot listen to it while driving particularly well, since I want to hear the whole thing and road conditions will make me tune out and I'll miss stuff. This results in weekend binges occasionally. I'm once again up to date, however, so yay.
The Hidden Almanac: If I'm doing a hella early morning transit commute, I like to start my day with this. I also like it to space between the Night Vale when I'm doing a marathon listen if I haven't been able to catch up for a while.
New since then:
This American Life: I remember this fondly from more intensively radio listening days.
The Skiffy and Fanty Show: This is what I wanted out of Fandomania.
Perfecto Podcast featuring Paul Oakenfold: attempting to keep current on music, good for housework and/or exercise.
Tea and Jeopardy: Can't say I'm fond of the chickens except as their first introduction as a novelty, but the whole package is simply adorable. Writer Emma Newman hosts various other writers in her migratory Secret Tea Lair, as butler Latimer puts her guests in mild peril. I am totally not writing femslash of Emma and a fictitious academic from the Pegasus Galaxy.
Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap: I have finally listened through all the back episodes. I would be happy to play cards with these people.
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.
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That sounds delightful!
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Out of curiosity, what podcasts have you decided not to listen to?
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Yay honey sticks!
I thought about BayCon but I was mostly exhausted that weekend.
Aside from the ones I tried and unsubscribed from, I haven't really been keeping track of the things I've heard of, looked at, and decided against.
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I have had to cultivate a pretty robust level of tolerance for gender-involved dickery in order to exist in geekdude engineering spaces, so it is entirely possible that you are more sensitive to that than I am.
Generally I wince more over the guests than the hosts. But some of the guests are really awesome, so I'm a little reluctant to drop it entirely.
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Slash Report in particular I think you might like. Fangirls complaining about life and slash and wank.