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Welcome to developer.podshow.com, serving podcasting hackers since January 19, 2006.

Partying Together

Podcasting’s early development ran according to a simple rule: creating great software required that users and developers party together. But at least as important as the user-developer party is the developer-developer party. The writers of podcast publishing software had to pay attention to what the writers of podcast reception software were doing, and vice versa. And, frankly, the writers of both kinds of software had to pay attention to what their competitors were doing. One of life’s little ironies: you tend to share more in common with your competitors than most of the rest of the world, since you’re spending vast amounts of time thinking about the exact same problems.

Why we are Here

We’re here to continue the party, developers and developers partying together. As we roll out our various frontend sites comprising the PodShow PDN to podcasters and listeners, in parallel we’ll be deploying backend APIs that allow third-party applications to connect and support the different types of participants. Want to publish podcasts from Audacity? Let’s make it happen! Want to add podcast reception to your web browser/im client/email client? Well, why not? We’re here to help you make great apps: better versions of existing ones, new ones that nobody’s dreamed up yet or thought were impossible.

What we’ll do, Concretely

In the spirit of partying together, we’ll use this space to: toss out our own ideas, listen to your ideas, preview our APIs and solicit comments, publish our APIs, write sample implementations and point to others, organize developer events. Send us an instant message or better yet, point us to your blog.

Who are you?

Andrew Grumet here, very nice to meet you! I co-authored the Juice podcast receiver (formerly iPodder Lemon, 1.4 million downloads and counting) and built the GigaDial podcast remixer back in November, 2004. Speaking of which, if you want to put podcasts directly on my iPod, you can do it right here. I just moved to San Francisco to join PodShow where the team and I are busy conjuring up a new generation of podcast tools. I’m new to the area so feel free to send me a shout out.

Party on.

Welcome to our Tutorials page. Here’s where you’ll find in depth, step by step tutorials on topics of interest to Podcasters and Podcast developers. Find Audacity too confusing? We’ll show you the three techniques that every podcaster needs to understand.

Here’s a simple python example:

#!/usr/bin/python
from xmlrpclib import Server
s = Server('http://www.podshow.com/xmlrpc/pdn')
username = 'you@yourdomain.com'
password = 'yourpodshowpassword'
results = s.blogger.getUsersBlogs('',username,password)
print repr(results)

Welcome to our Downloads page. Here’s where you’ll find links to download the best and brightest developer centric in the Podcast arena:

Programming Libraries

1. The Pear PHP MP3 library — While we don’t use it, one of the podcasters we know, Scott from TechWarStories.com, used it to build his iRSS podcasting system.
2. GetId3 — PHP library for processing MP3 ID tags. It’s awesome.
3. eyeD3 — a Python Library.
4. SimplePie — PHP feed parser.
5. IE7 Feeds API

Podcast Listening Tools

1. Juice — nee iPodder Lemon co-authored yours truly
2. Transistr — nee iPodderX
3. NewsRiver — news aggregator with podcast reception support.
4. Nimiq
5. doppler
6. RSSRadio
7. iTunes
8. Yahoo! Music Engine
9. CastPodder

Feed Creation Tools / Podcasting Tools

1. Feeder by Reinvented Software
2. CastBlaster
3. Podcast Maker
4. PodPress

Have a podcasting product or tool? Please email podshowdeveloper@gmail.com and we’ll do our best to get you into the list pronto.

– Andrew

Rather than ask you to subscribe to a mailing list server that you don’t trust (i.e. one of our own), we’ve opted to use the power of Google Groups to run our mailing list. That way if there are any problems its an interface you already know and trust.

Here’s how to subscribe to the Podshow Developer Network mailing list:

1. Go here: http://groups.google.com/group/podshowdeveloper
2. You’ll see a screen that looks like this:
   
3. Click on the Join this group link. Fill out the web form. If you don’t have a Google account you’ll need to sign up for one but this is a good thing — after all we all love Gmail don’t we?
4. Thanks for Joining — we want your input to help us build the best possible developer relations program.

What’s a high tech company these days without APIs? Its sort of like peanut butter without chocolate.

We’ll use this page to document published and proposed APIs. We have a bunch of stuff in the works but rather than wait for the glorious 1.0 we’ll favor a release early, release often model, putting new stuff here as it becomes available and in general trying to give as much advance notice as possible.

This is also a place to work together. API design doesn’t work well in a vacuum. What kinds of data and procedure calls will help you build better apps? Blog them and point to this page, or leave a comment on our blog.

Want to stay in touch with what’s going on in developer land here at PodShow? Check out devcast.podshow.com!

We try and keep “IM Office Hours” where we’re reliably available of Monday to Friday 10am to 11:30 am PST. Feel free to contact us with suggestions or if you need help.

Use any of these IM or Email accounts:

Andrew Grumet podshowdeveloper (aim) podshowdeveloper (yahoo) podshowdeveloper (gtalk) podshowdeveloper at gmail.com