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That’s all for tonight

[GNU] — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:22:25 +0000

just another mind bending sound whacklet from the profundities of erdGeschoss #B4music… Der MÃ¶p!!

RSS 1.0 Enclosure Aggregator

[GNU] — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:23:38 +0000

Hello World! This is the 0.2 release of gclosure, a RSS 1.0 and Rss 2.0 enabled enclosure aggregator primarly targetet at Podcast downloading. Basically it’s intention is to bring all the wonderful RDF features to the world of podcasting. It uses librdf and was hacked together with a lot of help of dajobe (once again). First milestone is to see the download counter climbe higher than 3 :) Thanks for feedback…

RDF/RSS1.0 podcasting updates

[GNU] — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:39:36 +0000

I think I am going to build a podcast aggregator on my own, usage of RDF/RSS1.0 in the podcasting universe must be enhanced… The first step would be a Python console application getting the usual suspect’s podcasts. As it’s beeing Python the natural choice seems to be librdf, so get a grip on Rasqal. With a little help of dajobe I got a SPARQL query to get the list of Enclosures and the Length out of my RDF/RSS1.0 feed. Here is the code:
PREFIX dc: PREFIX rss: PREFIX enc: SELECT ?title ?enc ?len WHERE ( ?item rdf:type rss:item ) ( ?item rss:title ?title ) ( ?enclosure rdf:type enc:Enclosure ) ( ?item enc:enclosure ?enclosure ) ( ?enclosure enc:url ?enc ) ( ?enclosure enc:type ?type ) ( ?enclosure enc:length ?len ) AND ?type =~ /audio/mpeg/

Have a try on it.

RDF/RSS1.0 podcasting

[GNU] — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:31:19 +0000

I really don’t know if there are some RSS1.0 aware podcasting clients out there… iPodder isn’t :( but this is for you: flt.mp3 (find it also in the enclosure of the rss1.0 feed for this category).

Adam Green?!

[GNU] — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:19:39 +0000

nur ne kurze Randnotiz: Ich hab keinen Bock mehr auf Adam Green, weder auf seine Musik noch auf seine Gedichte!

just passing into the night…

[GNU] — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:05:30 +0000

on some real relaxing rock-n-roll Obscene & Pornographic Art from the album “Power Of Pussy” by Bongwater

get that stuff down to your HDD and in your head by some mp3-to-musik converter…

pod we cast?!

[GNU] — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:07:50 +0000

So what is podcasting about? Downloading mp3 file discovered by looking for enclosures in a RSS feed. And it is about regaining control over broadcast (kind of) radio, which is basically a philosophical point.

In general, podcasting is a very convenient way to consume information. aggregation technology for RSS feeds is good and downloading applications such as iPodder help getting all podcasts together.

From my point of view the most time consuming task ist listening… you need to invest 45min if your podcast is 45min (maybe 35min…). So called shownotes help finding stuff that is most interessting, thus having good show notes is a good tool to deliver a high service level to the consumers of podcasts. From my point of view this is a good example: . Topics are very easy to identify and have a time index so it’s easy to jump directly to the topic of my personal interesst.

more to come…

Comments on and refrences from a MP3 file

[GNU] — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:34:33 +0000

How to comment on a MP3 or how to reference a file on the web from a MP3, and maybe while playing back that MP3 using a mediaplayer to display the linked information.

Listening to Adam Curry‘s lates Daily Source Code (rss) I found a audio comment by Koan Bremner talking about the interlinkage of OPML and MP3 (via id3 tags). Maybe the thing I tried to outline early on the blog is exactly one of this applications the podcasters are looking for. Podcasting is very much like having a (partly) offline multi media (mp3, mail, html, opml) conversation or discussing an idea and making annotations to that idea as MP3 file. So, it’s not just about linkage from a MP3 to a OPML and vice versa but also about timely correct linkage. What is also needed is a fancy GUI editor to attach the audio comment to the right position of the MP3 one is annotating. After that, there needs to be a publishing mechanism including a trackback/pingback to the URL of the initial MP3 file.

So there needs to be some evaluation on the technologies like OPML, RSS 1.0, MP3 ID3 tags and trackbacks and the opportunities to link them together. In addition to that I will try to pin down a concept for that editor the annotating user could use and the publishing mechanism. And I will have a close look at Adam’s blog, maybe there are some interessting things going on too.

unter’m Strich: MP3 file containing ID3 tags with html:a to a URL of an OPML file which also contains RDF stuff (RSS 1.0) with enclosures pointing to some URL of other MP3 files

my iPod and my childhood

[GNU] — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:27:11 +0000

This is the perfect mix for every boy (and girl) arround the world: Lego and iPod. I must reanimate my Mindstorm, there must be some useful to do with it.

iPod – The missing tools

[GNU] — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:25:29 +0000

So, after some time wiht my iPod I must say it is nearly good, a few things are missing:

a key combination on the remote control to set the playlist to the album of the currently played back song… would be nice, because I use random play over all songs most of the time
some kind of bluetooth interface, to mute the iPod if the phone rings, or even more sophisticated: to mute the iPod if some friend (look at my FOAF file…) comes in range
some plugin that reads the interpret and title of the song to me if i request it via a key combination on the remote control

I guess most of the things are possible, but heavily related to extending the software on the iPod… where is the iPod SDK??