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Well.. it’s been a long time coming but finally I have put together the first of the nusstacasts… The name will change… and so will everything else…

This is a rave between me and my friend Ben on things ranging from sustainability to memory and the nature of time…

Hope you enjoy this podcast from a bunch of aussie guys…comment me on this site….

more slack!!!

-schnarple-

I’ve had a couple of problems with podcast episodes that partially download. The episode will show as being 50 minutes in the description though only, say, 3 minutes downloads. This has been quite frustrating as a recent episode of the DopeFiends Psychonautica PodCast was a talk by the author Tom Roberts who I happen to have a recent book. So I was really looking forward to hearing him give a talk at the recent World Psychedelic Forum in Switzerland and all that I got was 3 minutes of Max Freakouts introductions…. Not that I mind hearing Max’s beautiful English accent mixed with psychedelic consciousness infusions….it’s just that I wanted to listen to Tom!!!

Sooooo… cut with the psychotalk and up with the technotalk hey!!!

1. Delete the podcast episode in itunes. It will ask you if you want to move the file to the trash.. I answered yes so there was no chance of it getting confused with multiple files of the same name etc etc..
2. Close the little triangle to the left of the Podcast Title.
3. Press and hold down the “option” key and click once the podcast title. Supposedly this make itunes redownload the episode data fresh..
4. Wait a bit…. go on… wait…. don’t be such a modern techno … wait…. maybe even press the “Downloads” link in the left pane and then click back to podcasts again…
5. If the podcast title is not already expanded press the triangle on its left to expand it again and sakurajima… there should be the podcast episode listed again as not downloaded…
6. Press “GET” and re download the episode…
7. your mileage may vary so comment away and I’ll see if I can narrow this communication down a little…

I was stumped the other day trying to download a podcast from a site that published the podcast through the itunes portal. The reason I was stumped is because you can only download an itunes podcast from a computer that is running macos or windows with apples itunes software installed. I run Linux on my current computer which is a PII 350Mhz would you believe it!!!! Runs everything fine including all the woo-woo techie stuff!!! That’s one for sustainability and one for Linux!!!! anyway…..

I found this little python script from Andrew Clark the other day….

itunes-url-decoder.py

The following are the comments at the start of the python script….

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#  itunes-url-decoder.py
#
#  A quick and dirty Python hack to retrieve the RSS feed URL from an
#  iTunes Music Store (ITMS) podcast URL.
#
#  Written in August 2007 by Andrew Clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
#  and released to the public domain.

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It takes an itunes podcast url as an argument and returns the actual xml web address of the podcast itself. This means that you copy the xml address to any rss reader or podcast enabled music player to get the podcast. That’s another one up for Linux and free software and information.

I’ve been thrashing wordpress for the past 6 weeks trying to get this plug in “podpress” to work with my version of wordpress (2.1.1) but to no avail. I checked all the forums on wordpres.org and mightyseek.com but noone seemed to be able to sort my problem out. The basic problem was that whenever I tried to create a podpress enabled page/post I would press “save” and then nothing would happen. I finally traced it to the wordpress theme I was using. I found the current theme after looking for something that was simple and fast…. no bulshit… just give me my site baby and fuck the graphic dodads and funky widgetmonkeys, I want speed and content.

So……

It is working now…. supposedly. I am going to add a podcast file to this post and see if I can access it in iTunes. If you want you can give the podcast feed link a try and see if it works too.

If you click on the link below the mp3 file should start playing but it will most likely be twice as fast as it is suppose to be. So this proves that I want speed!!!! …..mmmmm…. seriously, it is a bug in the flash player that doesn’t like anything that is not encoded at a sample rate of 11.025 kHz 22.050 kHz or 44.100 kHz. What crap software we have to put up with today…..

Anyway, here is the mp3 and you can copy the link to my podcast feed url and paste it into the respective audiophioc dilation systemetry that you possess at your space-time creation.

fnord.