Monday, September 15, 2003

RSS enclosures   enclosures I'm longing for RSS enclosures in Manila. Chris Lydon is posting some great inerviews, his syndicated feed would be perfect for developers to use to help integrate enclosures into their aggregators. Once you use an aggregator that knows what to do with enclosures, you'll never want to look back! Your aggregator shows a new media-file is available and when you click the link, the file plays instantaneously. No waiting, since your aggregator downloaded the file prior to announcing it ,in order to deliver an awesome time-shift experience. Comment from Bob Doyle:  permalink I am helping Chris with editing, compressing, and posting his audio. My main concern is to support streaming of his MP3 files, rather than downloads (which scare off many possible listeners). Can an enclosure direct the browser to use QuickTime for example (since it fast loads and starts playing as soon as possible)? Thanks. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] "My main concern is to support streaming of his MP3 files, rather than downloads (which scare off many possible listeners). " I read comments like this before.  I sometimes wonder what is it about file downloads that scare off so many possible listeners.  complication?  time to download? Disk space? PTP networks don't support streaming and they seem to be popular. The enclosure based aggregator client Adam describes would change the user experience of audioblogging as we know it today.  There is so much more you can do and control with audio/multimedia files once you download them. Also my audioblogging comments to this entry:  RSS enclosures - more 10:12:51 PM  comment []    trackback []     Goodbye, PC; hello, PS (Personal Server) Goodbye, PC; hello, PS (Personal Server). IDF Your life on your mobile phone [The Register]   9:13:26 PM  comment []    trackback []

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