The Mobile Podcasting Test, Report #2 - Audible Air
Posted on 6:17 am by Paul ColliganIn short, it didn’t go well at all. If it wasn’t for a few long phone calls on the trip, I would have gone out of my mind.
We’ll start with the good news. The one shining star was Audible Air. This did everything that it was supposed to do.
When I wanted to download an hour of content, it took a little less than 2 minutes (2 minutes of silence for one hour of content is a fine trade). And, of course the “theory” behind Audible Air is that my phone would download that content the night before - so this wouldn’t be an issue.
I’ve been a monthly subscriber to Audible for some time now so I had a long library from which to choose from.
Had no current subscriptions in the queue, so there was no way to get some recent news on any topic.
The only problem - Audible Air only does Audible. Not only was this restrictive in what I could get to work on the only wireless Podcatching engine I could get to “work” but I hate situations (and I think all customers do) where I have to switch between two different programs to do the same task.
Audible, want to make me really happy? Let me use Audible Air to download any Podcast I want. I can’t imagine it is that much more of a coding issue (maybe just add an import OPML) - and use the bandwidth of the host. Yes, I know there are a few hoops to jump through but let me tell you this.
So far, you’re the only thing that works. How would you like the whole market of wireless Podcasters running a program with your logo on it every day.
Just a thought.
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October 12, 2006
Josh Bancroft said:
Paul, have you ever tried Orb (www.orb.com)? Install it on an XP system at home, tell it where your media is (video, audio, whatever,), and then you can stream it to any device with a web browser and the ability to receive either a Windows Media or Real Player stream.
Works great for me - I can stream all of my podcasts that are sitting on my PC at home. Not that I do it that often, but it’s nice to know I can. And best of all, it’s free.
October 12, 2006
Paul Colligan said:
Josh,
I have tired Orb (I think it was you who got me to try it originally) - didn’t put two and two together on this one.
I”m streaming a Podcast to my Treo as I type this. It’s the higher quality version - and this is the same machine that I store my Podcasts on so … interesting option. I’ll play with the approach a little bit and make a comment accordingly.
Paul