Raw Comedy Podcasts

[Cheerful Pessimist]

Hello, long time reader, first time poster (maybe, I can't remember)

Has anyone heard the Raw Comedy podcasts on the Triple J website? Is it worth down loading the pod cast program?

Cheers in advance

[Mythor]

... There's Raw Comedy podcasts on the J's website?

The URL is: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/rawcom...st/podcast.xml

In iTunes, if you didn't know how, you go to Advanced -> Subscribe to Podcast, and paste that URL into the box. I couldn't find them within iTunes itself.
Seems to be 5 available so far, 5 to 7 minutes in length each.
(Haven't listened yet, will later.)

[louie]

whats the deal with pod casting

[Mythor]

It's a fancy pants way of making an audio file available to people. The "podcast" method is popular because it lets people easily drop things in their ipod to listen to later.
Most podcasts (including the Triple J Raw Comedy podcast) are done in mp3 format, which means you can listen to them on just about any portable music player, once you've downloaded them.

The ones currently available for download are as follows:
14th of February in Melbourne: Rachel Leary as 'Nance from the country'
7th of February in Melbourne: Runner up Celia Pacquola and winner Michael Williams
3rd of February in Adelaide: Jason Pestell and Kevin Dennison
31st of January in Melbourne: Heat winners Ben Pobjie and Gareth Moloney
24th of January in Melbourne: Heat winners Andrew Lonsdale, Sean Modd and Nameless
18th of January in Adelaide: Heat winner Hannah Gadsby

If any of them are wrong, talk to Triple J. That's what they have listed in the podcast XML.

[Cheerful Pessimist]

Hmm... well I think I might download them, cos one of them is me (Michael Williams). Interested in hearing the rest as well, since I don't get to go to Raw (or Melbourne for that matter) as much as I would like.

[louie]

sorry i'm down with this ipod stuff. i hope they do the sydney ones

[JD3000]

I spent a couple of hours kicking my PC trying to download them. Damn my old school technology (Win98 & slow dial up)!

[louie]

can you get them without owning an ipod ?

[Mythor]

Yes. You can download them and listen to them with anything you'd ordinarily listen to mp3s with.

You can get them with iTunes by following the instructions above. If you don't have iTunes then this link leads to the website. Anyone can install iTunes, you don't need an iPod for it.

[JD3000]

Since ITunes won't run on Win98, you can also use an RSS Reader to subscribe to the Raw Feed (mine's an extension to Firefox). The Reader will notify you when a new MP3 is available & you can download it.
Then you can use any media player to listen to it.