On Sep 4, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Malachi G McCaulley wrote:

> We have found a great GUI called Chapter Tool Me, it is a lot  
> easier to use than writing the code and a whole lot faster!

Tubes of cookie dough bought at PriceChopper are easier and faster  
than home-made. But they don't taste the same.

Thanks for the heads-up, though, MM -- I have downloaded "ctm" from  
http://www.rbsoftware.net/?page=ctm . It's a little clumsy with  
respect to "scrubbing" forward and back through the sound file in  
search of suitable chapter breaks, but through some frustrating trial  
and error I finally figured out the tricks.

Now I just need something interesting to say...

It might be cute to package PowerPoint presentations as "enhanced  
podcasts for iTunes."  Here's a dopey example

     http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/blog/?p=265

Cute. But worth the effort? I guess that's for students and faculty  
to decide.

A downside, of course, is that AAC files aren't MP3 files. My nephew  
with the iRiver IFP-790 can't listen to AAC files (although he can  
listen with iTunes, and see better quality images there than I can on  
my iPod Color).


> Any thoughts on maybe a server dedicated to Podcast?

What features would a "server dedicated to Podcasts" have that would  
make it compelling?




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