Escape Artists
Escape Pod => About Escape Pod => Topic started by: techknight on March 05, 2007, 05:11:29 AM
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Figured I'd mention this on the new forums:
I run a separate archive feed of Escape Pod that contains every normal and flash episode. (No book or movie reviews.)
If you'd like to catch up on old episodes that have fallen off of the regular feed, give Escape Archive a try:
http://www.escapearchive.com (http://www.escapearchive.com)
It's not meant as a replacement for the normal feed, just something to quickly fill out your iTunes collection with.
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wow nice! ive subscribed so i can get the first 21 eps!
(aah the beauties of creative commons)
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Is there any way we can get the ID3 tags synched up? Last time I checked they were different, and that upsets my delicate OCD sensibilities. :)
Thanks for providing a way to get the archives!
EDIT: I read your post in the torrent collection thread. Is this something that you chose to do or something that happens automatically?
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It happens automatically, and I now think iTunes is the culprit. (Before I was assuming the the PodPress plug-in for WordPress was doing it.)
I ftp the normal files to the webserver, but when iTunes downloads them it changes the tags on your local copy to match the details in the post made in WordPress.
In theory though, you could do a batch download of http://www.escapearchive.com/media/audio/ (using wget, WinHTTrack, Teleport Pro, or another such tool) and just overwrite the files in your iTunes folder. You might then have to highlight all in iTunes, right-click, Get Info, and then Cancel for iTunes to realize that the files have changed.
I can understand the OCD frustration, since that's exactly what motivated me to make an archive feed - it made me crazy to think of having manually-imported old episodes outside of the podcast section in iTunes. :)
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This is a great thing to do. Thanks. I've been subscribed for ages but until very recently haven't really had the hard drive space to keep too much :).
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ah, wonderful! thanks so much.
i'm a very recent ep addict, and i was freaking out at the thought of wasted hours manually grabbing the 80 or so episodes i had missed.
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Hello,
I started listening to Escape Pod around episode 70, and they are store in iTunes, each of them rated and with the nice summary that seems to come from the RSS feed. I'm catching up on old episodes, downloading them from the site. Unfortunately when I add them to iTunes I don't have the nice summary.
I was wondering if there was an RSS feed with the integrality of Escape Pod, so that I can get these summaries. Or if you have any alternate suggestion, I'd gladly try it.
And thanks for Escape Pod!
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Try downloading old episodes from EscapeArchive (http://www.escapearchive.com/). It's a fan run feed. I believe all of the files are the same as the original downloads.
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Try downloading old episodes from EscapeArchive (http://www.escapearchive.com/). It's a fan run feed. I believe all of the files are the same as the original downloads.
Thank you so much for this suggestion, this was exactly what I was looking for!
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Try downloading old episodes from EscapeArchive (http://www.escapearchive.com/). It's a fan run feed. I believe all of the files are the same as the original downloads.
Thank you so much for this suggestion, this was exactly what I was looking for!
We aim to please. I would have gotten back to you on the same day, but Heradel got me hooked on crack (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1551.msg25285#msg25285).
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Me, tempt? Never.
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We aim to please. I would have gotten back to you on the same day, but Heradel got me hooked on crack (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1551.msg25285#msg25285).
HAHAHAHAHA! <wipes tears> Dammit, ain't it the trooth?!.... okay, i gotta go... need another hit.
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We aim to please. I would have gotten back to you on the same day, but Heradel got me hooked on crack (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1551.msg25285#msg25285).
Now this is evil. I'm not clicking on any link there. N.o.t. ;D
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As a new listener, I've really been enjoying going back through the archives and listening to old episodes. It's easy enough to download them as mp3s and listen to them in iTunes. However, I'd like to import them not as music files, but as podcast episodes. That way, iTunes remembers where I've left off when I interrupt playing-- I won't have to fast forward.
Anybody know whether this is possible, and if so, how to do it?
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In your Library menu on the left hand side, there should be a purple button labeled Podcasts. Select it, then hit Podcast Directory on the bottom. In the search engine at the top right, search whatever you're looking for, and hit Subscribe when it appears. That should about do it. The episodes will appear in the Podcasts menu, with a button that says "Get" beside the ones you haven't downloaded yet.
Hope that helps.
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That won't help get episodes that have fallen off the feed (at the moment, anything older than 129). I'm afraid you have to download them as mp3. There might be some hack you can apply to them later to make them count as podcasts, but I don't know what it is.
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Corydon,
Two answers for you.
1) For episodes you already have highlight all of the episodes and rightclick "get info". In the screen change "remember playback position" to yes.
2) To get the episodes, you don't have, surscribe to escapearchive (http://www.escapearchive.com/). It's a fan run podcast feed with all of the back episodes. As mentioned here (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=674.0), here (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1093.msg16157#msg16157), and here (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1560.msg26210#msg26210).
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1) For episodes you already have highlight all of the episodes and rightclick "get info". In the screen change "remember playback position" to yes.
Aha! That did the trick exactly. Thanks a million!
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1) For episodes you already have highlight all of the episodes and rightclick "get info". In the screen change "remember playback position" to yes.
Aha! That did the trick exactly. Thanks a million!
Thanks, Russell!
And thanks, Corydon, for asking... I keep meaning to ask, but... well, I just posted in another thread about my headful of crap; I don't need to say it again, do I? ::)
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Is this a thread that should be "stickied" to the top? The question has come up four times, and I know I *meant* to ask it, too.
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Is this a thread that should be "stickied" to the top? The question has come up four times, and I know I *meant* to ask it, too.
There are so many that should be stickied, that if we did it, you'd have to go to the second page to find the new stuff. Maybe this thread just needs to be occasionally bumped.
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Good point...
Maybe we just need a FAQ.
Who'd most enthusiastic about doing THAT?
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Is this a thread that should be "stickied" to the top? The question has come up four times, and I know I *meant* to ask it, too.
There are so many that should be stickied, that if we did it, you'd have to go to the second page to find the new stuff. Maybe this thread just needs to be occasionally bumped.
If there's any one that should be stickied, I think it would be the "request a thread for episode XX" thread. (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1748.0)
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Is this a thread that should be "stickied" to the top? The question has come up four times, and I know I *meant* to ask it, too.
There are so many that should be stickied, that if we did it, you'd have to go to the second page to find the new stuff. Maybe this thread just needs to be occasionally bumped.
If there's any one that should be stickied, I think it would be the "request a thread for episode XX" thread. (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1748.0)
Or the original version of that thread. I see this list getting very long very fast.
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I'm sorry if this has been asked before (and I'm sure it has), but is there an (hopefully somewhat current) archive of Escape Pod episodes floating around somewhere? I remember one a while ago, but I think it only had the first 50 episodes or so and I can't find it anywhere. I would just really like to have all of them on my hard drive but I'd rather not waste all of that bandwidth.
On the other hand, if no torrent archive exists, and there's interest, I'll go ahead and grab them all and put one up myself.
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http://www.escapearchive.com/
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Yeah, I saw that, but that bandwidth has to come somewhere. Seems like it'd be more efficient (and less demanding on whoever is hosting that website) to get it through torrents.
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http://www.mininova.org/tor/1428212
It's about 10 weeks behind, and there's currently only one seeder. But it's the only one I was able to find.
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Ok, I give.
It's stickied.
I've also combined all of the threads from the first page into one thread. Yes, from the first page only. Four different threads for the same question were on the first page!
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Is there something which has disappeared from Escapepod's netsite?
I just finished adding every episode of Escapepod to ISFDB (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Stephen%20Eley (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Stephen%20Eley)), and every episode seemed to be loadable.
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Is there something which has disappeared from Escapepod's netsite?
I just finished adding every episode of Escapepod to ISFDB (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Stephen%20Eley (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Stephen%20Eley)), and every episode seemed to be loadable.
Episodes have been removed form the feed, but the site has everything.
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Is there an http://www.escapearchive.com/ (http://www.escapearchive.com/) equivalent for PseudoPod or PodCastle? I'm getting dangerously close to being caught up with EscapePod. Saw nothing in their respective forums.
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Is there an http://www.escapearchive.com/ (http://www.escapearchive.com/) equivalent for PseudoPod or PodCastle? I'm getting dangerously close to being caught up with EscapePod. Saw nothing in their respective forums.
Not yet. Although Ben has been talking about seeding a bittorrent of PP.
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I know we've talked about this, but I'm too tired to go looking for the old thread where it was.
Wether you've been downloading old stories right off the site or using escapearchive, people have had questions about handling he files in iTunes. The main problem was for folks who downloaded the stories off of the site and wanted them in the podcast directory, but this also works for people who had the stories in the podcast directory but wanted them in the audiobooks or music directories. With the new version of iTunes you can just go to the options page and pick where you want it. Before this didn't work when you were dealing with podcasts, but now it seems to work without any extra messing around.
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Cool. I'm almost tempted to install iTunes.
Almost.
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A Pseudopod torrent: http://www.mininova.org/tor/2083431
We don't currently have anyone officially on staff handling torrents for us, but thanks to the magic of Creative Commons licensing people are free to make and seed them to their hearts' content. If you want to be officially in charge of such things, drop me a line and I'll be happy to declare you Torrentmaster Supreme or whatever you like, so everyone else can rest happily in the knowledge it's being handled.
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Any tips for iPhone users using the built-in "Podcasts" app? I don't see how I can get the Escape Arvice feed in there- all I see is the main EscapePod feed.
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The Podcasts app is just an extension of the iTunes store. It will also only have the most recent episodes. To get them, you really just have to manually download them.
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If I hadn't had a hard drive crash, I would seed it somewhere but since i had listened already anyways, not worth it to me to go back for stuff over a year.