We fixed the broken Feens episode Number 104

The Freedom Feens episode “obedience to law is liberty” is messed up, audio wise and had to be put down. This is the fixed replacement:

In Soviet Russia, Drug Consumes YOU!

Enjoy!

Freedom Feens Torrents! PLEASE SEED, IN CASE THEY GET DRONED!

PLEASE SEED IN CASE THEY GET DRONED!

The FREEDOM FEENS Podcast:
Michael W. Dean and Neema Vedadi’s fun ‘n’ feisty twice-weekly chat about libertarian, agorist, voluntaryist and anarchist issues, abuse of authority by police, the War on Drugs, self-defense, Natural Rights, Austrian Economics, activism, DIY no-budget filmmaking, digital recording, cats, dogs, punk rock, hip-hop, sex and more. http://www.freedomfeens.com

These torrents cover episodes 1-102. More will follow! Get ready, y’all!

Get them here:

Movie, Guns and Weed – The Road To Freedom: Torrent of decent-looking 900 meg DVD rip.

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Thanks to Sean DuVally for putting these up!

TWITTER FEED OF UPDATING CURRENT FEENS TORRENTS IS HERE.

On the length of RSS feeds

My friend in Prague, Václav Navrátil, wrote to me:

Hi Michael,

that is very difficult to say. RSS was designated as a way for syndication of content (I don’t know if you remember the big disputes few years back if RSS Feed should contain Full article or just the Lead paragraph), but Podcast RSS in fact Atom is the main way of publishing of the podcast and I think it should include all the episodes.

Some podcasts need to be ordered from the oldest to the newest (books), some from the newest to the oldest (Freedom Feeens) and some just need to publish last three episodes (weather forecast).

To support my argument, imagine a user which finds your podcast on some Podcast catalog, iTunes for example… The user has no chance easily (few clicks on their device) get the rest of the podcast to their device and to the podcast playing software. It is an inconvenience so big that it will discourage most of the users from listening to the older episodes.

RSS was designate to bring people on your site to consume the content there. Podcasts are consumed elsewhere. The feeds should reflect that. And it doesn’t bring any significant extra cost.

You are an experienced podcaster and I’m only a theorist which might be missing some important part of the riddle but this is how I see it.

P. S.: I don’t want to start any pod beef over pod feed. 😉

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I replied toVáclav:
My choice is based on the opinion of my friend Evo Terra, who wrote the book “Podcasting for Dummies.” He knows more about Podcasting than anyone I know.

One issue is that some podcatchers will not download and process an RSS feed that is over 250 k. The Feens one is currently 237 k, if I included all episodes, it would be about a meg.

I’ll ask Evo if that limit has changed with time, and what his current opinion of it is. My feeling is that if someone wants all the episodes, they can grab them fairly easily from FreedomFeens.cz.

MWD

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I wrote Evo and asked him:

Hey Evo,

I know you used to recommend that a pod feed only contain like ten episodes. Has that change with time and advances in throughput and memory capacity?

Also, I know it used to be that some podcatchers would not download and process an RSS feed that was over 250 k, is that still the case, and if so, which podcatchers?

Thank you!

MWD
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Evo wrote back:

Technically, there is no length restrictions described in the RSS 2.0 spec document.

512K is the max file that Feedburner can handle, so there’s a practical limit. And some catchers may have an issue with very large files, but iTunes seems to be OK with it.

I haven’t had an active personal podcast for the last couple of years, Michael. But when I did, I kept the feed to 20 episodes and always included full show notes.

regarding comments

I didn’t delete any comments here. I moved my blogs this week over from DreamHost (too many problems) to HostGator (who rock). In doing so, ~~all~~ many of the comments disappeared on ~~all~~ many posts on all my blogs and podcasts. I’m trying to recover them, but this is a thing that happens. I’m working on it, but none of the workarounds I’ve tried so far have worked.

If anyone’s had this problem, and found a solution, I’m all ears.

Also, if you’re previously had a comment approved, you may have to get re-approved to post a comment again. So don’t worry if your comment doesn’t show up immediately.
MWD