New iTom Song

[filkertom]

This one's just silly.

Comments

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

*snrrrrk!* The last audible line in the recitative at the end fade-out is the perfect punchline. :)

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

*applause*

Bra-VO, sir!

[argentee.livejournal.com]

I really /can't/ get the file to play. Getting 404 not found, me lads...

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hm. I just checked both the Listen and Download links on the blog. Are you trying from that page, or one of the two pages on TSO?

[devospice.livejournal.com]

What's the link for the rss feed? I need something that ends in .xml in order for iTunes to pick up the feed.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Either subscribe to itom_songs or just go to the main iTom page (http://filkertom-itom.blogspot.com/) for feed links.

[devospice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tried. Neither of those work in iTunes. They both give me the same error. "The URL might point to text-only episodes, or contain file types that iTunes cannot play."

I'm not familiar with the way FeedBurner works, or BlogSpot for that matter. It may have something to do with one or both of those services.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Well, part of the problem may be that I'm not doing it as a podcast. I admit that iTunes gives me hives. Everybody seems to love it, but every time I've installed it I've uninstalled it within the hour and spend an afternoon cleaning up the crap it's done to my system.

[devospice.livejournal.com]

part of the problem may be that I'm not doing it as a podcast

Ah. That'll do it then. iTunes doesn't handle regular blogs. Only podcasts.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I find that subscribing using a Google Widget works very well.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. I'm damn sick and tired of the iPod being the "only" MP3 player--or video player, for that matter. I've had a pocket MP3/AVI player for over a year for well less than half the cost of an iPod (and it doesn't try to lock me in to a particular proprietary file type), but just try to find any accessories for the ZVue. It's not the iPod that I mind so much... it's the collective attitude that it's the only game in town, and the domination is so complete that "iPod" is coming to mean any small pocket media device.

So I'm unapologetically a ZVue partisan and I object to 'iPod' being used as a generic term for MP3 player and 'iTunes' for any music sharing facility.

[argentee.livejournal.com]

Running Firefox, the link above takes me to
http://filkertom-itom.blogspot.com/2006/08/004-cant-get-file-to-play.html
I click on Download and it takes me to
http://www.tomsmithonline.com/freestuff/oddio/CantGet_128.mp3
and a 404 error

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's the thing: I too am running Firefox, and when I follow that link -- which I have several times over the past few hours -- I get the file. I just did it again, from the very link you posted above. Try right-clicking (or special-clicking, if you're running a Mac) and directly Saving the Link As....

I promise you, it's there.

[argentee.livejournal.com]

When I do that, it saves a 4.42 KB file that won't play. Windows Media player says that the contents don't match the file format. If I rename the file to .html instead of .mp3... it opens and shows the 404 page

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Ironic that this is the first one I could get to play with no problem... ;-)