Scifi/Fantasy Podcast: DragonPage C2C

[direstraits]

In my traversals of the internet of (almost) everything wondrously new and exciting (cough), I have found something very interesting to those of us here who love fantasy/scifi.

DragonPage Cover to Cover (DPC2C) is a podcast on scifi and fantasy, hosted by a couple of 'scifi geeks', is out every week. You can check it out at http://www.dragonpage.com/, and then go ahead and subscribe it using whatever it is you normally use to subscribe podcasts (if you want me to explain how it's done, let me know in this thread and I'll talk about it).

They have interviewed quite a number of people already, including George RR Martin, Harry Turtledove and Jeff Vandermeer. I'm sure they have tons more people wrapped up - their episode count is about 230+ now.

I've listened to about 4 of their shows now, and it's interesting. They are clearly not seasoned radio people (like Leo Laporte who hosts a series of podcasts I listen to), but they do okay, although occasionally they don't really ask really good questions.

I'm pretty sure there are other scifi/fantasy podcasts, but this one I'm staying with for now.

ds

 

[FrodoLIVES]

This looks really great. I haven't really gotten into podcasts before, so I am going to go ahead and ask you how to subscribe to it.The website look really great. Forgive my ignorance

 

[direstraits]

This looks really great. I haven't really gotten into podcasts before, so I am going to go ahead and ask you how to subscribe to it.The website look really great. Forgive my ignorance

Hey Frodo... don't worry about it. I didn't post about podcasting because I was afraid of going into explanation mode when none was really needed.

Podcast
Audio programs produced by amateurs/pros on a variety of topics. It is distributed via the internet in the form of downloadable/streaming 'episodes', released as and when they like. Usually they follow a schedule. DragonPage C2C, for instance, is once a week.

Note that you don't need an iPod to listen to podcasts!

Software
Podcasts can be listened to in a variety of ways:
1. Going to their website and downloading the episodes one by one. Typically they are in mp3 format, but could be anything really. You could then use your Media Player/Winamp/iTunes/whatever to play the file - just like you would a music file.

2. Going to their website and streaming the audio. Some sites have embedded players - so you just press play on the episode you want to listen to.

3. The most popular way of listening to podcasts would be to use what is called a media aggregator. You use this software to subscribe to a podcast, typically by clicking on the podcast 'subscribe' button or RSS icon on the podcast website. This software will then automatically check the feed for updates as and when they become available, without needing you to visit their webpage anymore. If you subscribe to more than a few podcasts, this is the most convenient way to get them all.

The aggregator I use is called Juice, which isn't great, but works okay. There are plenty of others out there. The most popular aggregator, though, is iTunes.

If you're having problems, just PM me, and I'll try and sort it out for you.

Also, since you're checking out podcasts, go to The Parsec Awards website - it's a awards website organized I believe by the folks at Dragon Page, and the award winners are podcasts relating/of scifi/fantasy fiction that may be worth checking out.

ds

 

[FrodoLIVES]

Thanks ds. I got the podcast up and running on my computer and it works quite well.