Broadcatching (continued)

Back in June, I blogged that this RSS+Bittorrent stuff, which I call broadcatching, was too complicated.

This morning I've got a great example of both the power and the complexity of it.

I subscribe to an RSS feed called Wilco Base Set List.  They publish a list of the songs in every live Wilco show.   It makes for interesting reading but occasionally a lot more.

This morning I was going through my feeds and saw that Wlco played Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper as its final encore song at the Fillmore show in San Francisco last week.

Well I just had to get that.

So I went to bt.etree.org and looked for the show.  I found it and downloaded the torrent into Azureus and I am downloading the show now.

But that's not the end of it.  The show is in FLAC format so I've got to convert it to MP3, then put into into iTunes and synch to my iPod.

That's quite a few steps that I'd love someone to simplify for me.  But it's also a big opportunity as well.  If anyone can integrate this experience from RSS through the iPod, then they've got a homerun on their hands.

Comments

[jackson]

More Cowbell!

[Bill Rice]

You guys are missing what is going on in the world of podcasting obviously. Check-out http://www.ipodder.org. iPodder, iPodderX, doppler, and an emerging host of others offer the integrated experience you are seeking. I use iPodder. I love discoverying all of the new found goodies on my iPod during my commute to and from work.

As for how you make money when you put all this together... I will send you a personal email on that one and see if you are interested in that plan ;)

[Matthew Freeman]

Bill:

I'm currently subscribed to over 30 different podcasts. Before iPodder came along and podcasting got popular, I was using some perl scripts to scrape, record, and cleanup news casts and shows from npr [npr.org] and some indie internet radio stations. I was right in the beginning stages of whipping up another script to auto-magically move the recorded audio to my iPod when I happened upon Adam Curry, podcasting, and iPodder. I downloaded iPodder and trashed my not-yet-written script.

What I'm looking at is an app that could not only do the current functions of iPodder, but also enable me to search torrent sites (or any sites, that matter) for other media (video, etc...), download it, and go the one extra step of transforming that media into something useful. (i.e. flac->mp3 or unzipping it, verifying par2 files, etc...)

I'm really interested in an all-in-one deal (and I'm a real scratch-your-own-itch kind of guy), but for now iPodder and the likes are great apps. (Couldn't live without them...)

As for your plan, I'm always interested in something new... email me at n2linux [at] gmail [dot] com.

~ Matt

[Steve]

I was trying to get the torrent for the same Wilco show on Saturday night. Given my limited technical capabilities I was unsuccessful. I would pay for a better way.