Richard Jones' Log: Looking for podcasts
I'm looking for some downtempo podcasts like "Tempo of the Down". I'm having a lot of trouble finding anything as most podcast index sites just lump all music podcasts into one lump. Or if they do have an electronic music section, there's just a name and a link to an RSS feed - no description. This basically means I would need to randomly select a feed and listen to it. This is how I found Tempo of the Down - but I had to download half a dozen podcasts (at around 75MB or so each) before I did find it.
I'm getting the feeling that most podcasts are discovered through human networking...
Any suggestions?
By the way, Richard: I don't know if there's something wrong with your feed, or if it's just me, but I tried plugging your feed into my preferred aggegator and it wouldn't take. So I cut the feed down to https://mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/rss and now I'm subscribed! Don't know what the deal is, but thought I'd let you know...Thanks again (see my previous post)!
Thanks Harold!
Yeah, my weblog software is home-grown and has some rough edges :)
Home-grown? Holy Pyledo! Did you build this yourself? Did you use Python? I'm just beginning to learn Ruby myself...
Heh :)
I do Python and Zope work for a living, so it kinda made sense that I write my own blog software. Unfortunately, I don't find the time to fix up some of the sharp edges like the one you found. I'm too busy writing games in my spare time :)
Hi MechCat, Thanks for mentioned my podcast "Tempo of the Down" here. I agree; it's difficult to find specific genre podcasts. Some of it is certainly social networking -- that's how I find alot of the podcasts I listen to. You may want to check out resources like the Association of Music Podcasting for information about a variety of music podcasts of various genres. But for downtempo, I don't know where to look myself. I can recommend, however, a show I used to listen to all the time (though it's more of an ambient podcast than a downtempo podcast): SpaceMusic. Check it out!