Do you listen to podcasts?

towel401

I find it hard to believe that someone would actually sit there and download a load of pre-recorded waffle with maybe a few songs in it and listen to the whole thing. it seems like a zero effort way for wannabe radio pirates to seek attention. and apparently podcasters are at the bottom of the internet food chain

http://stevenmansour.com/files/net_food_chain.jpg

I've listened to a few boards.ie podcasts, otherwise no.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The first ten mins of the boards.ie ones. They don't tend to say much in addition to what's been posted.

Generally, yes. More the informative ones, though.

kincsem

Only the boards.ie poker podcasts, mainly hoping that people I know will say some really dumbass things, and we can all laugh at them for ever.
Hasn't happened yet, unfortunately.

skywalker_208

Yes! Especially the likes of Gift Grub, Knob Nation - stuff thats on at inconvenient times...

Kold

Some good music podcasters out there, it's like a better radio seeing as the radio sucks.

monkeyfudge

Boards.ie podcasts... Slightly more popular than Twilight

http://www.monkeyfudge.com/images/podchart.jpg

Black Swan

Wakes up from pod. Mumbles "Did I miss the invasion?"

phasers

No, podcasts are rubbish

Local-womanizer

Yes podcasts are great.

Tillotson

"In Our Time" from the BBC is great,
science, religion, history. Really informative. Hate missing it.

Sometimes I listen to Leo Laporte's "Floss Weekly", which is about linux and open-source software.

miaowsky

I listen to a fair few of them, science, movie gossip and sports news. It's just the stuff I can't listen to at the time of airing of the show.

drunkmonkey

towel401 wrote: »

I find it hard to believe .

believe http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/podcasts/ Not all podcasts are rubbish....

Prawo Jazdy

Tried watching a few. Didn't do much for me.

IronMan

I listen to loads of them, download them to my phone and play them back over the bluetooth connection in the car when on a journey.

Listen to
Guardian Football weekly.
This week in Tech.
Scientific American
Focus Magazine
Astronomycast

All excellent, professional produced, informative, and of interest to me. Stuff I cannot get on the radio.

ShaneU

Yes, loads related to videogames, football, tech and other stuff I'm interested in

purplegeko

Used to listen all the time but the novelty soon wore off - every now and then i will download a couple of NPR podcasts mostly news related.

Biggins

I listen to http://www.lbc.co.uk/ podcasts.

Great debates - catching up on ones that I miss while at work. Great stuff.

mickoneill30

towel401 wrote: »

I find it hard to believe that someone would actually sit there and download a load of pre-recorded waffle with maybe a few songs in it and listen to the whole thing. it seems like a zero effort way for wannabe radio pirates to seek attention. and apparently podcasters are at the bottom of the internet food chain

I can either to listen to some live waffle on the radio telling us how bad everything is or I can download some relevant stuff that is of interest and benefit to me. I do the latter.

Some interesting ones to me are
Twit
Cranky Geeks
Mayo & Kermodes movie reviews.
Newstalks Down To Business.

And you don't have to sit there and download the stuff. Spend 5 seconds setting up iTunes or Juice and it'll automatically synch with your Ipod or mp3 player of choice.

towel401

mickoneill30 wrote: »

I can either to listen to some live waffle on the radio telling us how bad everything is or I can download some relevant stuff that is of interest and benefit to me. I do the latter.

these days real life radio presenters only ever talk about twitter and play ads anyway..

And you don't have to sit there and download the stuff. Spend 5 seconds setting up iTunes or Juice and it'll automatically synch with your Ipod or mp3 player of choice.

downloading isn't the problem. its actually listening to that crap

to me podcasts seem like such a low energy form of 'broadcasting' for those who don't have the equipment for a real radio/tv station and don't have the bandwidth for a live stream either. ya just upload your waffle to some free web 2.0 host in return for looking at google ads and hope people will take the time to listen to it

Biggins

Myself, because of my job and sometimes long drawn out tasks I have to take, I don't have time to listen to irrelevant items that I'm not interested in.

In some cases, why wade thru 5 to 60 minutes of waffle just to hear something in it maybe only three minutes long that you were waiting for anyway?
Podcasts cut to the chase, can be paused when a task crops up or when I have to check something out.

Very useful indeed.

CreepingDeath

towel401 wrote: »

I find it hard to believe that someone would actually sit there and download a load of pre-recorded waffle

Depends on the content, your own interests and if you've say 30 minutes of commuting each way to kill every day.

I listen to Astronomy cast, there's some great stuff in there about the planets, the universe, quantum physics etc.

Astronomy Cast link

Also "Conversations with Eamonn Dunphy" is good... I may not know who he's interviewing, but still interesting stuff. Gabriel Byrne and Martin McGuinness were good interviews.

Dunphy Podcast Link

Setun

Podcasts are fantastic - you can listen to exactly what you want to listen to, when you want to listen. You basically have the power to programme your own radio station tuned to your own interests. How is that a bad thing?

Guardian's tech weekly is a fantastic podcast, interesting debate, news, and interviews. The Tranecast (about John Coltrane's life/music) is great for any jazzers out there, and I listen to a few off-beat Japan cultural guides to get some tips for my holiday there this summer. I think they're great, especially if you can listen to them at work to pass the time.

Kold wrote:

Some good music podcasters out there, it's like a better radio seeing as the radio sucks.

Any suggestions actually?

Setun

towel401 wrote: »

to me podcasts seem like such a low energy form of 'broadcasting' for those who don't have the equipment for a real radio/tv station and don't have the bandwidth for a live stream either. ya just upload your waffle to some free web 2.0 host in return for looking at google ads and hope people will take the time to listen to it

I take it you also hate youtube then?

Gordon

Listening to a podcast is like listening to a radio show without the music, get a quality verbalist/s and it's enjoyable. I don't listen religiously but have really enjoyed the old podcasts of Russel Brand and Ricky Gervais et al. Always listen to the Boardscasts too, they can be fun.

OctavarIan

I listen to plenty, there are bucketloads more quality podcasts than there are radio stations. No annoying music in the middle of the shows either.*

*Not that I don't like music, it's just that most presenters on the radio have terrible taste.

Gordon

OctavarIan wrote: »

*Not that I don't like music, it's just that most presenters on the radio have terrible taste.

And talk over the songs.

FearDark

Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington FTW

Biggins

Good podcast directory:
http://www.mypodcast.com/podcast_directory.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/directory/
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/podcasts/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8132577

Mmcd

Guardian Football weekly
Ray Foley
Gift Grub
Nob Nation
Beat of youtube
Funniest Ads

I think im addicted

Mimikyu

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mickoneill30

towel401 wrote: »

to me podcasts seem like such a low energy form of 'broadcasting' for those who don't have the equipment for a real radio/tv station and don't have the bandwidth for a live stream either. ya just upload your waffle to some free web 2.0 host in return for looking at google ads and hope people will take the time to listen to it

So you don't really know what podcasts are. Out of curiosity what podcasts did you listen to, to give you that impression?

A lot of podcasts are radio shows. I don't have time to listen to Mark Kermodes film reviews when it's on. I can either record it from the radio (pain in the ass) or download the podcast or miss it entirely.

Admittedly though 99% of the thousands upon thousands of podcasts are rubbish (or not to my taste).

Adamcp898

Nob Nation
Gift Grub
The Guardian Football Weekly
and Revista de la Liga

All good podcasts imo

Heisenberg.

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towel401

mickoneill30 wrote: »

So you don't really know what podcasts are. Out of curiosity what podcasts did you listen to, to give you that impression?

A lot of podcasts are radio shows. I don't have time to listen to Mark Kermodes film reviews when it's on. I can either record it from the radio (pain in the ass) or download the podcast or miss it entirely.

Admittedly though 99% of the thousands upon thousands of podcasts are rubbish (or not to my taste).

some ol yoke i downloaded years ago when the idea was just starting to catch on. a talk show to me is worthless if it's not live and there's plenty of better ways of getting pre-recorded music

Setun

FearDark wrote: »

Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington FTW

Feck, forgot about that even though it's really what got me into podcasts.


/Runs off to download Guide to the Arts

Diabhal Beag

When you have to listen to idiots all day you might as well listen to a podcast. Its a good distraction from the boring and saddening **** that we hear in the news about recession and job cuts.

KieranKennedy

There are plenty of very well put together podcasts out there which are not only extremely entertaining, but very informative. I enjoy many podcasts, and I have often turned down a night in town to cuddle up in the warmth of my bed listening to my favourite podcast



while masturbating

doonothing

IronMan wrote: »

I listen to loads of them, download them to my phone and play them back over the bluetooth connection in the car when on a journey.

Listen to
Guardian Football weekly.
This week in Tech.
Scientific American
Focus Magazine
Astronomycast

All excellent, professional produced, informative, and of interest to me. Stuff I cannot get on the radio.

Just that, it's ****ing class! Oh and the Football 365 one on occasion...

towel401

Daddio wrote: »

I take it you also hate youtube then?

its alright for lil short things but i wouldnt watch whole tv shows and movies on it. actually prefer proper high quality video files i can download

towel401

KieranKennedy wrote: »

There are plenty of very well put together podcasts out there which are not only extremely entertaining, but very informative. I enjoy many podcasts, and I have often turned down a night in town to cuddle up in the warmth of my bed listening to my favourite podcast



while masturbating

would ya not be better off watching pr0n? i think if i started listening to podcasts while having a **** i'd fall asleep before i'm finished. suppose it saves ya from having the sticky mess in yer bed

Pompey Magnus

FearDark wrote: »

Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington FTW

+1

I really enjoy their podcasts but I much prefer listening to the recordings of their XFM show from a few years back, in my opinion these are better than the podcasts because they don't have the scripted feel to them that the podcasts often do and also they're free to download, so its like about 100 free podcasts, mostly very funny.

mike65

Guardians FW is a bi-weekly ritual these days. I also use the "On Demand" service on my internet radio so the stuff the beeb compiles can be streamed (and paused if required).

KieranKennedy

Charco wrote: »

+1

I really enjoy their podcasts but I much prefer listening to the recordings of their XFM show from a few years back, in my opinion these are better than the podcasts because they don't have the scripted feel to them that the podcasts often do and also they're free to download, so its like about 100 free podcasts, mostly very funny.

Great podcast, its not free though is it? How can you get it free?

towel401

z0mg. people actually pay for these things?

wtf has the world come to.

/wrists

Pompey Magnus

KieranKennedy wrote: »

Great podcast, its not free though is it? How can you get it free?

Well the podcasts aren't free but recordings of their radio show are free to download online, I got them at http://pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Download:Xfm#10_November_2001

z0mg. people actually pay for these things?

wtf has the world come to.

/wrists

Well technically podcasts are free, audiobooks are what you pay for (or so I believe).

Kold

Daddio wrote: »

Any suggestions actually?

I quite enjoy nialler9's podcasts, pretty eclectic mix of new tracks and some background info. Other than that, the odd radio1 mix. NPR distributes bootlegs, got some fairly cool ones (Tom Waits, Radiohead, Mogwai, Spiritualised. I used to subscribe to Indiefeed hip hop but whilst it put out some nice underground tracks they were single watermarked tracks, you'd hardly bother with em.

stovelid

I do listen to them, but dislike the pretension of the name. I was saddened to find out it was just an mp3 of people talking.. The name promised more. Something future.

Dean820

The Guardian do a great football podcast called 'Football Weekly'. Check it out.

Esse85

Dean820 wrote: »

The Guardian do a great football podcast called 'Football Weekly'. Check it out.

Very good.

bnt

I listen to a few. They have certain advantages: unlike radio, you can skip forward or repeat bits. I play them at 2x speed on the iPod, Windows Media Player or VLC can do high speed too. If the OP thinks podcasts are a load of waffle, the OP is listening to the wrong podcasts.

In addition to those mentioned, I like NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" and "Planet Money". BBC do a lot, such as "More Or Less", "Thinking Allowed", and "Friday Night Comedy". "The Bugle" is a hoot, as is "Real Time with Bill Maher", which works pretty well in audio only. Another one I like is "Skeptoid", a short podcast about debunking "woo-woo" topics. I do appreciate podcasters that don't waffle.