After listening to a gazillion podcasts over the past few weeks, one thing I want for Office Hour is quicker streaming on my PC. The long download times that are associated with most podcasts is annoying, and has actually caused me to move on to another podcast in more than one instance. I notice that Podcasting News offers a "Podcast" (mp3 download) and a "Stream" (via Streamguys). This is a very nice feature, and I wanted to offer something similar here. Meet the "Wimpy Button."
For those of you who stream to your computers rather than downloading to mp3 players, I will be publishing each podcast using a Wimpy Button, which is based on Flash technology. You can try it out right now. If you click the button below, you will hear immediately a track called "Judee's Tune" from Seismic Anamoly.
The biggest shortcoming of the Wimpy Button for my purpose is that the music stops when the page is reloaded or when you navigate away from the page. So if you listen to future podcasts using the Wimpy button, allow for a dedicated tab (Firefox) or window (IE). It also doesn't display the elapsed time as the file plays, a feature that would be available in the Wimpy mp3 Player. Unfortunately, that product requires php, which is not supported by Typepad. Oh well, I still like the button.
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