ieuph7 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Since DCI hosts their audio on Soundcloud, it has an rss feed. Just takes a bit of digging to find it sometimes... Here you go: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:70839483/sounds.rss And now its a podcast. :-) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumScorps Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Just tried out the link in the iOS podcasts app. Worked like a charm! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrothgar15 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Since DCI hosts their audio on Soundcloud, it has an rss feed. Just takes a bit of digging to find it sometimes... Here you go: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:70839483/sounds.rss And now its a podcast. :-) You win DCP today. Works great in my podcast app! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummergirl Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 100% agree, I stop listening to the Field Pass as soon as it disappeared from iTunes and my pocketcast app. By the way, its extremely easy to set up a rss feed via feedburner. I stopped listening just like you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummergirl Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 It's not about the fact that it's an audio file. (Or that dci.org website is a dumpster fire, really). It's the fact that podcast is a word that means something specific. Putting an audio file on the web is not a podcast. A podcast has to have an RSS feed with audio attachments. The entire reason that podcasts exist is so that they are easy to listen to because each episode is downloaded automatically by podcast players, whether that's Apple's Podcast app (the most popular), iTunes, 3rd party apps like Overcast (on iOS), Pocketcasts (on Android), etc. For several years, that's EXACTLY what FieldPass was. You could subscribe in a podcast player and listen to each new episode when it came out. When they stopped offering that feed, and just started throwing audio files on websites, it ceased to be a podcast. And, it ceased to be easy for people to listen to easily. That's why it's annoying. Thank you for expressing what I wanted to say!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummergirl Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Since DCI hosts their audio on Soundcloud, it has an rss feed. Just takes a bit of digging to find it sometimes... Here you go: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:70839483/sounds.rss And now its a podcast. :-) Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammondbrass Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 It's not about the fact that it's an audio file. (Or that dci.org website is a dumpster fire, really). It's the fact that podcast is a word that means something specific. Putting an audio file on the web is not a podcast. A podcast has to have an RSS feed with audio attachments. The entire reason that podcasts exist is so that they are easy to listen to because each episode is downloaded automatically by podcast players, whether that's Apple's Podcast app (the most popular), iTunes, 3rd party apps like Overcast (on iOS), Pocketcasts (on Android), etc. For several years, that's EXACTLY what FieldPass was. You could subscribe in a podcast player and listen to each new episode when it came out. When they stopped offering that feed, and just started throwing audio files on websites, it ceased to be a podcast. And, it ceased to be easy for people to listen to easily. That's why it's annoying. I totally agree! I was getting ready for a long car trip out to a camp and learned they weren't offering it as a podcast anymore. It was such a pain in the ### to load it up on a website on my phone. Can't they do both? Or are they losing ad revenue on iTunes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeZ Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 I honestly think DCI does not realize that their podcast is not a podcast. The issue began with the introduction of the "new" dci.org website. Since June 2015 my preferred podcast app (Downcast) will pull up the Field Pass podcast but show no episodes available. It's a shame that Dan Potter is creating excellent content that almost no one is listening to. Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dixon Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 It's still not a podcast, and they should quit calling it one. A podcast has an RSS feed with an audio file attachment that can be downloaded. This is not a hard technology to learn, but apparently DCI can't figure it out. This is just a (horrible) website with a not very good imbedded audio player, covered in crappy ads that have nothing to do with Drum Corps. (Or, if you're using an AdBlocker, a message about how much better DCI.ORG looks covered in crappy ads.) Pathetic. Correct on all fronts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumManTx Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Someone should contact em about it. Srsly. So how about what they said. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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