Yahoo! Introduces Podcasting Service

Yahoo! Introduces Podcasting Service

malebolgia on 10 October 2005 - 19:00 · 20 comments & 1989 views

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Yahoo! Inc. on Monday introduced Yahoo! Podcasts. It’s a new podcast download, search, rating and review service. Podcasts are short audio programs you can download and listen to on your music player software or iPod. Podcast programming runs the gamut from technology news to politics, social information, audio snippets of radio programs broadcast on public and commercial radio stations and much more.

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#1 Adem on 10 Oct 2005 - 19:10

Thaught iTunes already covered most of these...?

#2 Xtreme $niper on 10 Oct 2005 - 19:26

Nice service. I'd use it regularly if they would make subscribing work with Opera.

#3 Zolk on 10 Oct 2005 - 20:05

Very nice work by Yahoo!, although I'll probably stick to iTunes because of the integration in the player.

#4 kitchenutensils on 10 Oct 2005 - 21:04

does this provide anything over iTunes?

(1 reply) #5 nacs on 10 Oct 2005 - 21:09

iTunes and odeo.com already do everything Yahoo's doing and doing it better than yahoo.

Too little, too late Yahoo.

#5.1 sphbecker on 11 Oct 2005 - 12:50

This is really interesting because Microsoft has had both video and audio "podcasting" like for years, but it never became popular. It failed for 3 reasons. 1) it only worked on PocketPCs at first, 2) the software which provided it was part of an XP Plus! pack which most users didn't want to pay $19.99 for, and 3) due to absolutely no advertising no one knew about it.

(7 replies) #6 AMDMEFX-55 on 10 Oct 2005 - 21:53

I love Yahoo music Unlimited. Its only $6.00 and I get all the free songs I want.

#6.1 eAi on 11 Oct 2005 - 00:04

... but if you stop paying you've got nothing to show for your money...

#6.2 NrthnStar5 on 11 Oct 2005 - 00:08

It's no different then cable. You pay your cable bill monthly to have access to the stations. Stop paying, you have no access. I don't see people complaining about that.

Besides, if you using itunes/ipod... if you want / have to switch to a different player either hardware or software... your paid music from itunes isn't going to be much good in that case.

#6.3 machorro on 11 Oct 2005 - 03:17

QUOTE

Besides, if you using itunes/ipod... if you want / have to switch to a different player either hardware or software... your paid music from itunes isn't going to be much good in that case

well not exactly you could always copy the songs to a CD and then re-rip them in format without DRM, you loose quality but you didn't say anything about that

#6.4 sphbecker on 11 Oct 2005 - 12:46

You loose quality and a ton of time! Just think of how long it would take to burn and then rip all your music...a long time, but not too bad. Now think of how much time it will take to manually type in all the tag information because you know that isn't automatic when you are ripping from a burned CD.

#6.5 quick on 11 Oct 2005 - 13:31

Yahoo Music Unlimited is great, radio, music when downloaded (subscription) is 192kbit WMA so its not bad. Database isn't 100% but can't expect that really.... It's worth 5 bucks a month or 7 bucks if you do month-month.. You hear a song you like you download it and listen to it when ever you want. I personally get tired of my old music, and its nice not having to pay for everything I listen to.

But anyway, this has nothing to do with yahoo music, i would have thought they would have integrated thier "podcasting" with thier yahoo music engine... maybe down the road?

#6.6 NrthnStar5 on 11 Oct 2005 - 15:56

There is a podcasting plugin that allows you to access the podcast site through the music engine with a new icon, and also a new My Podcasts icon for the saved ones. IT's very very nice.

#6.7 quick on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:01

Cool, thanks for the info gonna check that out...

#7 xpgeek on 10 Oct 2005 - 22:21

This is cool. I don't like iTunes, don't have it, don't want it, so this will be useful for me.

#8 Hottoast on 11 Oct 2005 - 06:18

i just switched my whole portal experence form MSN to Yahoo, and I LOVE IT!

Whoo-Yahoo!

#9 kirk26 on 11 Oct 2005 - 10:52

LOL. I love the new feature of having to logging in with a username/password to view ads on Neowin! Classic!

Edit: Ok, someone fixed it for now.

Last edited by 1144 on 11 Oct 2005 - 11:12

#10 RADicaLMMS on 11 Oct 2005 - 11:52

Looks pretty good, but this new site seems very Internet Explorer centric. The media helper keep poping up after 80% in Opera.

I like Yahoo! and Opera why don't they get it?!

EDIT: Works fine on Opera with Windows Media Streams, it's the Real and Quicktime streams that get stuck @ 80%.

Last edited by 10692 on 11 Oct 2005 - 12:52

#11 xsnslaine on 11 Oct 2005 - 12:34

cool! my podcast is featured, but i want to set up the author and change the logo etc ... hmm how i gain control of it, it was automatically added and not linked to my yahoo account

#12 DigitalThoughts2006 on 11 Oct 2005 - 15:24

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Podcasts are short audio programs

And the PowerUser.tv podcast is usually around an hour long. Some may consider it to be short, but I don't, when it's compared to the iTunes New Music Tuesday podcase which is around 10-15 minutes.

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