Comments on: Vote for The Bike Show http://thebikeshow.net/vote-for-the-bike-show/ Podcast and blog of the world's most popular bicycling radio show, rolling since 2004 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: hippy http://thebikeshow.net/vote-for-the-bike-show/comment-page-1/#comment-113 hippy Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:48:01 +0000 http://thebikeshow.net/2007/02/21/vote-for-the-bike-show/#comment-113 You got my vote! I listen with iTunes and filenames and ordering seems fine. I wish I could remember how I found out about your show but I can't. Keep up the great work! You got my vote!
I listen with iTunes and filenames and ordering seems fine.
I wish I could remember how I found out about your show but I can’t. Keep up the great work!

]]> By: Sailinghome http://thebikeshow.net/vote-for-the-bike-show/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Sailinghome Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:08:52 +0000 http://thebikeshow.net/2007/02/21/vote-for-the-bike-show/#comment-105 Hiya Jack, just wanted to let you know that your show is deeply appreciated over here in Hong Kong too...!.. and I thank my lucky stars every day for podcasting, otherwise your brilliant show would be impossible for me to listen to. Thanks for all your efforts, keep up the good work, and if you're ever in this neck of the woods, let me know. Nick. Hiya Jack, just wanted to let you know that your show is deeply appreciated over here in Hong Kong too…!.. and I thank my lucky stars every day for podcasting, otherwise your brilliant show would be impossible for me to listen to.

Thanks for all your efforts, keep up the good work, and if you’re ever in this neck of the woods, let me know.

Nick.

]]> By: Jack http://thebikeshow.net/vote-for-the-bike-show/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Jack Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:02:51 +0000 http://thebikeshow.net/2007/02/21/vote-for-the-bike-show/#comment-102 iTunes (which accounts for 90% of Bike Show subscribers) seems to order files in order that they were posted, taking the date from the XML feed. So anyone using iTunes - and this is most people - shouldn't have any problems even with my eccentric file naming habits. Though I'm always happy to serve the 10%. And I'm reading ISO8061 with great interest (!) iTunes (which accounts for 90% of Bike Show subscribers) seems to order files in order that they were posted, taking the date from the XML feed. So anyone using iTunes – and this is most people – shouldn’t have any problems even with my eccentric file naming habits. Though I’m always happy to serve the 10%. And I’m reading ISO8061 with great interest (!)

]]> By: Dave Riley http://thebikeshow.net/vote-for-the-bike-show/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Dave Riley Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:38:46 +0000 http://thebikeshow.net/2007/02/21/vote-for-the-bike-show/#comment-101 Jack it's an eccentricity -- but thats' not a foreign attribute to bi-cy-clists , is it now? I'm a grown man on a dog scooter so you have to be mutually tolerant I reckon. But unfortunately you would have lost subscribers because of this particular failing.-- and I was almost among them. But hey I love the show. I'm very existentialist and won't personally be demanding that you rename ALL the shows. But it would be to filing advantage I think as most podcatchers do list all the audio files available when they first subscribe to a feed and the date that registers in real time is the date the subscription began so as far as the reader/catcher is concerned all the files were created on the day the sub began. So the only sorting relies on consecutive numbering. My recompense will be to DEMAND a program on scooters & kick bikes. Big time in Europe but obviously not de rigueur in London. Jack it’s an eccentricity — but thats’ not a foreign attribute to bi-cy-clists , is it now? I’m a grown man on a dog scooter so you have to be mutually tolerant I reckon. But unfortunately you would have lost subscribers because of this particular failing.– and I was almost among them.

But hey I love the show.

I’m very existentialist and won’t personally be demanding that you rename ALL the shows. But it would be to filing advantage I think as most podcatchers do list all the audio files available when they first subscribe to a feed and the date that registers in real time is the date the subscription began so as far as the reader/catcher is concerned all the files were created on the day the sub began. So the only sorting relies on consecutive numbering.

My recompense will be to DEMAND a program on scooters & kick bikes. Big time in Europe but obviously not de rigueur in London.

]]> By: Hoipoloi http://thebikeshow.net/vote-for-the-bike-show/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Hoipoloi Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:26:27 +0000 http://thebikeshow.net/2007/02/21/vote-for-the-bike-show/#comment-100 Thanks Dave for mentioning it, and Jack for promising to do something about it :-) Now, if only everyone would adopt ISO8601. http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html As for renaming archived files, I wouldn't mind. Maybe a list of old/new file names would allow people to rename them rather than download them all again. Thanks Dave for mentioning it, and Jack for promising to do something about it :-)
Now, if only everyone would adopt ISO8601.
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html

As for renaming archived files, I wouldn’t mind.
Maybe a list of old/new file names would allow people to rename them rather than download them all again.

]]> By: Jack http://thebikeshow.net/vote-for-the-bike-show/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Jack Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:51:30 +0000 http://thebikeshow.net/2007/02/21/vote-for-the-bike-show/#comment-99 Fair point Dave. I fess up 100% But you'll appreciate from listening to the show that I'm not exactly the most precise, logical and organised kind of person. And I don't think you'd like the show so much if I were! But from now on I'll follow your file naming system. Do you think that if I rename all the past files, this will create problems for people, my hunch is that it might.... Fair point Dave. I fess up 100%

But you’ll appreciate from listening to the show that I’m not exactly the most precise, logical and organised kind of person. And I don’t think you’d like the show so much if I were!

But from now on I’ll follow your file naming system.

Do you think that if I rename all the past files, this will create problems for people, my hunch is that it might….

]]> By: Dave Riley http://thebikeshow.net/vote-for-the-bike-show/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Dave Riley Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:32:23 +0000 http://thebikeshow.net/2007/02/21/vote-for-the-bike-show/#comment-98 Podcast listeners would get a better deal from the Bike Show if you'd only standardized your mp3 file protocol. They are all over the place, are never consistent and play havoc with catch up downloads. Digital media means digital media and when you use file names like: bikeshow_050207 bikeshow_120207 whats' supposed to happen when you get to March? The computer won't know the show is in March(03) --or even in 2007! --because it's reading the day of the month digits first, ain't it? So how do you think your show gets listed in a folder? So Jack you gotta change your file system to this (or something like it): 20070205_bikeshow 20070217_bikeshow PLEASE! Podcast listeners would get a better deal from the Bike Show if you’d only standardized your mp3 file protocol. They are all over the place, are never consistent and play havoc with catch up downloads.

Digital media means digital media and when you use file names like:

bikeshow_050207
bikeshow_120207

whats’ supposed to happen when you get to March? The computer won’t know the show is in March(03) –or even in 2007! –because it’s reading the day of the month digits first, ain’t it? So how do you think your show gets listed in a folder?

So Jack you gotta change your file system to this (or something like it):

20070205_bikeshow
20070217_bikeshow

PLEASE!

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