X Minus One ... for Your Ear Buds

Now that I've made time for audio in my life, I'm discovering there's simply too much available. Although I selectively copied several gigabytes of music on my Creative Zen, it seems that I spend more time listening to podcasts. People think of iPods or mp3 players as music players. So it's a little ironic I spend most of my time listening to people chatting.

Another irony involves how well the concept of old-time radio fits into today's iPods or mp3 players. By the time I was growing up the large networks had already morphed into television and standardized on musical radio formats. I always thought older people who talked fondly about listening to radio drama were silly old fogies.

Unfortunately, I guess really classic radio used to be produced live. It wasn't until the 50's when networks relented to using recordings. Due to this, a lot of the old stuff is forever gone. What remains can can easily be made into mp3 files. I discovered a Sci-Fi series quite by accident.

I listened to only one episode but decided I want to listen to all the others. Even though it's available for free copying on the Internet, I wanted to automate loading into my Creative Zen on a weekly basis. Okay, I was curious to see how easy it would be to set up a podcast feed too. I set up a site to syndicate X Minus One. I'll post a new episode in sequence each week and you're welcome to follow along. Try the intial one and let me know if you successfully captured it on your audio device.

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