Video Tutorial: The importance of ID3 Tags in Podcasting

[allthewhile]

http://movies13.archive.org/3/movies/JaysonFranklinTheImportanceofID3TagsinPodcasting/id3tag.gif

This is a short video/tutorial which explains the importance of using proper id3 tags in podcasts. I could have done a better job explaining the importance at the beginning, but oh well.

It's > 40mb. Sorry, I'm horrible at encoding!

On my site:
http://www.catholicpodsquad.com/index.php/2005/03/05/video-tutorial-the-importance-of-id3-tags/

Download from the Internet Archive:
http://movies13.archive.org/3/movies/JaysonFranklinTheImportanceofID3TagsinPodcasting/id3tag.wmv

[owyn]

Nice work Jason.

I agree with most of your comments with exception of Track Title/ File Name.

I suggest that the format should be:
1)Maximum of 13 characters. This will make the title completely visible in just about any MP3 player.
2)Start with reasonably unique id for the podcast
3)Follow with either a sequence (eg. ThePoint26) or a date in YYMMDD format (eg. DSC-050316 instead of DSC-2005-03-16)

The podcast verse is probably too wild west for standards but lots of room for best practices.

[radioclash]

If you heard my rant in the latest show (or Ross's on Mashup) then good luck in getting people to fill them in at all, let alone put sensible things in them.

FILL IN YER TAGS OR I'LL...

ERR....

RUN OFF WITH YOUR MILK?

[allthewhile]

Thanks for the feedback. Paul from the point podcast does a great job of making the newest podcasts easily readable. The daily source code is too difficult to surmise which episode it is. I literally can't tell if I've listened to it or not. I often start listening to really old ones.

Of course, I don't use i-tunes, so maybe it does a better job of sorting.

-jayson

[radioclash]

Of course, I don't use i-tunes, so maybe it does a better job of sorting.

-jayson

is it me, or as a new ipod convert why does it encode it's comments as funny characters (WinAmp can't see them)

It's very odd...