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Monday, October 02, 2006

Pea Pods

Podcast Music Blast
Well PMB is a fairly basic site, basic setups as well. The quality of the podcasts are fair, nothing spectacular by all means. I listened to three musicians: Lanky, Billy Harvey, and Shane Bartell. Overall not my style of music, and I think that a live recorded podcast is alright but there is a lot of down time when the artists are just speaking to the crowd, so it is kind of a drag. They used Beta's Podcast Ready as their method of delivery, and were also sponsored by Fresh Media Works and PMC top 10. The audio itself came out of iTunes, which many of them have. I like listening to 45 plus minutes of live music and all but it really bugs me when i can't see the performance, so I would suggest cutting out some of the stage talk and get down to the music.

Mark Forman's Getting a Leg Up Podcast
This Podcaster was somewhat confusing for me to figure out. His podcast touched upon a bit of opinion, but he wants to be all about the music. There are one or two songs between each of his times he speaks, but he never mentions what the name of the artist about to be played nor any information on the music track whatsoever. I came to the assumption that the songs were the same as listed a little bit up the page from the flash driver he used to play his podcast. One nice thing he had was that you had an option to add the podcast to iTunes.

Rough Mix
Rough Mix does exactly what it says, it is "Live Daily's dedicated spot for music below the big label radar.." They deliver a pretty decent audio quality and give their respects to the artists that they are playing. Similar to a radio station. minus the commercials and worthless conversation. This is their first podcast, right around 45 minutes in length. So hopefully I see some updates in the future.

Digital Phlow
This one was difficult to figure out, i believe the large majority of text is in either Swedish or German. But the song titles and descriptions were not so I thought I would see what kind of music is being podcasted from across seas. They try to focus on podcasting individual songs, through an embedded player. A lot of techno and remixes and also seems to be pretty thick with updates. Some pretty good beats, makes me want to dance inside of a Mitsubishi.

Podcast Map
This is a great site to hear some great music. It is literally a map of the world, you can narrow down your region and find a particular podcast that might catch your eye. I was caught listening to the Texas Blues Cafe, They use a great flash player through Podomatic, where you can leave comments, add the file to your own iTunes, leave an email address in order to get new episodes, or even get the player for your own purpose. They have several podcasts to find what you want to hear.

1 Comments:

At 1:41 AM, Blogger hazzy said...

Hey,
What's up? I wanted to check out the tune from your old band but it wouldn't play. I have been having a lot of trouble getting the majority of these sites I've visited to play which is frustrating. I'm sure there is a way around it, I just don't know my way around.

 

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