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Dec 29
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Warning – NSFW language
This is my tribute to one of the funniest items on the News Real podcast. So this is to say thanks to Sean and Cimm for pumping out quality content for 10 years.
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Nov 4
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command line, editing, file, id3, id3 mass tagger, linux, mp3, mp3tag, music, podcast, tag, windows
MP3 tag editing
If you download many podcasts, you’ll often find that some of them aren’t tagged properly, and so don’t show up in your MP3 player where they should. There are two ways you can deal with this. First is the manual method with a graphical application. My recommendation goes to MP3TAG. It is a highly flexible system which can handle all the tag fields you’d need to handle, including cover art. It can also fill in tag information from systematically named files, and vice versa, as well as pulling tag data from Amazon and the CD internet database. When I was organising my 1,800+ MP3 collection, I was able to tag and rename every file with a ridiculous amount of ease.
Manual tag editing is all well and good for occasional jobs, but when you need see to podcasts that your computer gets every week, it can get repeative and time consuming. Therefore you need an automated method. The best way to automate a task is to find a command line tool for which you can write a script and execute on your operating system’s scheduler.
This is were ID3 Mass Tagger comes in. This is a really handy little utility, pointed out to me by fellow blogger, Pokeh. Fortunately the author makes versions of this for most operating systems. I run a script on my Ubuntu laptop for synchronising my podcasts with my mobile phone, and I’ve been able to incorporate this into that script to correct all my genre tags.
MP3Tag in action
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Aug 9
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podcast, smart, smartphones, steve, steve litchfield, youtube
Just writing this down for the archive really. Steve Litchfield who produces “The Phones Show” decided to do a special testimonials episode. At the last minute I recorded a clip about my E51. So here’s the episode, which I’ve deep linked directly to my part. Although please, if you find this interesting watch it from the start!
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Mar 4
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This is a video podcast that will appeal to those who fit the following. You are an extreme geek who is interested in following the tech news, and you have a tendency towards cynicism and grumpiness. Great, I’ve just traced out a stereotype, but watch an episode of this, you’ll see what I mean!
John C. Dvorak at the helm of Cranky Geeks.
This is a weekly podcast, about 30 minutes long. Every week it is hosted by the infamous John C. Dvorak along with “co-crank” Sebastian Rupley as a permanent panel member, in addition to two guest panel members every week.
If you are familiar with the “This Week in Tech” podcast, then you’ll like Cranky Geeks. In fact, I find Cranky Geeks a good substitute for TWiT simply because it packs in as much debate in half the time.
Also, Cranky Geeks is supplied in a range of formats, which I may as well give you the links to now:
Here’s a short clip of an old episode to give you a taster:
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Mar 2
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Formally known as the “Crave Podcast“, the “CNET UK Podcast” is unsurprisingly produced by CNET UK, which you, guessed it, is the UK wing of CNET. This is a weekly audio show, hosted by the members of CNET UK’s “Crave” editorial team (don’t worry if the names are confusing you, you’ll get used to it), shows are usually between 30 to 50 minutes.
Nate Lanxon interviewing Dr Pamela Gay of Astronomy cast for episode 117 of the CNET UK Podcast (Copyright 2008, Nate Lanxon. Used with permission)
Before getting into the content, I’ll give kudos to the guys who produce this for being one of the most ever-evolving shows I’ve listened to. The format of the show often reinvents itself, so the following run down is subject to vary. All that said, every week you can at least expect to hear discussions about a selection of news stories from the tech world, followed by reviews of new gadgets and products from each host, followed up by answers to listener submitted questions from the CNET UK Forum. The podcast has its own dedicated forum section, called the CNET UK Podcast Lounge. Time for full disclosure, I have been a listener of the podcast for so long that they made me a moderator on the Podcast Lounge, so please take my bias into account when I say I think you really ought to come and join the Podcast Lounge where you can discuss and rant about tech to your heart’s content!
The show is currently running a three presenter set up, with Ian Morris (@ian9outof10) and Nate Lanxon (@natelanxon) as permanent hosts. The third host usually varying between Rich Trenholm, Nick Hide, Andrew Lim, Rory Reid, and occaisionally Jason Jenkins.
One last thing to throw in, another reason I enjoy the CNET UK Podcast is that it is one of the very few UK tech podcasts. Most of the podcasts I listen to are American, which is fine, I like Americans, although nothing beats a topic you enjoy being covered with people from your own culture.
At the time of writing, episode 123 was the latest episode, which you can listen to here:
[audio:http://cdn.cnet.co.uk/cnetcouk/podcasts/crave/cnetuk_podcast_123.mp3|titles=CNET UK Podcast Episode 123|artists=Ian Morris - Nate Lanxon - Rich Trenholm]
Now, if you’ve liked what you’ve seen and heard so far, you’ll be needing the following links.
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