I'd rather see smaller podcats if I'm honest - By all means do more of them, but I'm more likely to find time for 3 or 4 1/2 hour bursts than one 2 hour podcast. But then I tend to have a short commute, and don't sit at the PC for hours.

You should just vary the length and content depending on how you feel. Without the time constraints imposed by the traditional broadcast media there's no need to be rigid about these things. As long as people know roughly what length each show is going to be before they download it everyones happy.

If you went down the two hour route I would suggest putting the show out in three 40 minute chunks. That way it would be easier for listeners to fit it into their routines. Maybe you should poll your regulars on how and where they usually listen?

I prefer listening in the car using a low power FM transitter, its feels more like real radio, and I spend far too long wearing headphones the rest of the time.

Hmm, the idea of recording three hours and then chopping it up into 45 minute chunks for podcasting does appeal. I'd have to start a whole new numbering system though...

As long as you don't stop broadcasting, do them just how ever the hell you want - but keep doing them!

The format is surprisingly important to me. I'd've thought I'd be yet crazy free-wheeling anarchy DJ but I do like a nice pattern. (Actually, that's not too surprising as I can tend towards the anal...) So the alloted time is important. Limitations are possibilities and all that jazz.

4x45 minutes sounds good. The whole three hours would have a unity, but the 45 minutes would be better for listening to - I imagine few people will have a spare three hours very often.

45 minutes is good for me: half of it commuting to work, half coming home; (on the Tyneside Metro, btw).

This is the best one so far. Have been playing it loads. Moseley content is excellent, of course. The Orff segment was famous for being the soundtrack to a homoerotic Old Spice advert. Love the Smog, gorgeous. And finishing with Mama Cass is inspirational, even without 'Lost'.

Thanks very much.

I'd like 2 hours, but I don't mind it being in chunks.

Just getting into this podcasting thing. I wasn't going to bother with the new MBA album but after having heard it here decided it had to be ordered!

Have you thought about offering the show in Vorbis format, it sounds transparent to me at 128kbps, (which you can't really say about mp3)?

Maaayyybbbeee. Problem is Apple's kit, which I use to put this together, doesn't support it which is very annoying of them so I'd need to bring in another app. Plus mp3 is the defacto standard (yes, it's not an open standard but everyone can play it no matter what they're using) so it's not a priority.

There's also the issue of legality - distributing a lo-fi podcast is more like fair use that a hi-fi one. Not much more but it's a defence.

But it's not out of the question to have two feeds. I'll ponder it.

More than an hour makes it tricky to download on the other side of the planet. Thank goodness I'm not in Laos.

Ah yes. The rest of the world. How easily one forgets... Point taken.

More speech-based stuff, definitely.

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