So I’ve gotten interested in this whole newfangled podcasting thingamagic. Here’s the short version: a podcast is a RSS feed where the enclosure tag contains a link to a file, in this case music files, usually MP3s.

You then use some podcasting software that reads a bunch of feeds, downloads the enclosures, and automatically loads your iPod with brand new music. Pretty clever stuff, actually.

I do, however, lack an iPod. I’ve been thinking about selling my current 20Gb Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen and buy an iPod Mini instead. I’m really not very interested in a lot of space, so the four gigabytes on an iPod Mini will do just fine. I don’t drag my entire music collection along in my pocket anyway.

So I made a podcasting feed of my own. I’ll let you know where it is in the next entry, when I have decided on what song to post.

This entry also gave me the idea to an article about Peercast, a distributed system for streaming audio. Every now and then I set up a stream and play some music for a bunch of friends. As a matter of fact, I stream every time I play music, since my player connects to a peercast station automatically.