Two Questions.

[robotdog]

1. Is there a way to easily excerpt a segment out of a podcast and turn it into a stand alone .mp3? I ask because I listen to a few music shows and every once in a while I hear a song that I would like to keep even though the actual podcast can be deleted. I would love to be able to excerpt/sample out the song from the podcast... give it a name and throw it into my library... any thoughts on an easy way to do this?

2. podcasting has ruined my ability to browse by artist on my ipod. when i browse by artist on my ipod, i see all the "artists" of the podcasts and since there are so many different artists (a lot of shows will list guests, or have alternative names or inconsistent names) it is ruining my ability to scroll their my music artists.... i tried to solve this by creating a playlist of just my music but when you browse a playlist on the ipod you have to browse by song... so that didn't work.... what i really want is to find a way for itunes (and my ipod) to exclude a track from the main library... i.e. have a track exist inside a playlist but not in the main library...

any thoughts or info would be appreciated...
scott
scott@robotdogfilms.com

[cc_chapman]

Any audio editing program will do #1, but I'd like to suggest that if you hear a song on a podcast that you enjoy that you go out and buy the song from the artist.

What your asking how to do is what has the record industry worried about most and why they are still against podcasting.

Most of what your hearing is from underpaid and unsigned artists so spend a couple of bucks and support them. If the podcaster did the right thing there will be links to the artist's site on the show notes.

[robotdog]

of course, of course. i should have known better than to not be *very* specific. sigh. i would only do this for songs that were not available in any other way. underground singles from unsigned bands. there is an old folk song from the sixties on a podcast that i want, but the record company that released it has been out of business for 20 years. that kind of thing.

and yes it is possible that even if the songs are not available any other way, i could still be violating some intellectual property restriction (depending on the legal history of the track), but i only care so much about this issue...

of course, if you really want to start getting huffy about rights violations, i don't even want to begin to think about how many songs are being podcast without permission right now....

scott.

[cc_chapman]

I agree that there are way to many songs being played without permission, but actually there are plenty more that do have permission since it's a great way to get unsigned bands exposure.

Any audio program will do what your asking about.

[jwol3]

Anybody have anything on the second question? I've already run into that when you have the desktop running tunes in some random order and you get a podcast with crummy tags getting in the music. You can set up rules on the desktop to get around it but no way to do it on the iPod unless you delete off old podcasts (or uncheck them on the sync list ) - both crummy manual solutions...

[allthewhile]

jwol, do you have a pc or mac? Because if you use doppler (pc) as your podcatching client, it will auto-rename id3 tags for you based on parameters you set up when it downloads a new file. Other podcatching clients out there might have the ability but I'm not sure.