Thanks. I've been using the BT feeds, but the podcatchers seem to choke on them sometimes.

Two questions -
1) Any reason the BT feeds need to be one item only? They shouldn't require any extra bandwidth on your side, and would be really convenient when I miss a few shows and need to catch up.

2) Have you looked into Coralizing your media links? It's a great system that's worked well for me over the past year - kind of a free community "akamai lite". Incredibly easy to use - instead of http://perseus.franklins.net/dotnetrocks_0132_vb_team.mp3 you use http://perseus.franklins.net.nyud.net:8090/dotnetrocks_0132_vb_team.mp3. Try the link - it works without having to configure anything. The first time it's accessed, Coral sees you're asking for new content and copies it out to all its local cache servers. The next time it's requested, it's streamed from the nearest cache server. Faster for the end user and no bandwidth hit for you. I think they do some HTTP magic (a HEAD request or GET with an ETAG or something) so your logs still show the download.

You can Coralize any link by tacking .nyud.net:8090 at the end of the domain.

Thanks for such a great show.

- Jon

I did an experiment with this and I only got ONE hit in my log, which was from the coral network. So, there is apparently no baked in way to know how many hits you're getting. The coralcdn.org site didn't offer a way to get download reports, unless it's buried somewhere and I missed it.

Still, it's cool. But, without logging, we're basically incapable of getting advertisers, which pays the bills.

BTW Mondays isn't listed in the iTunes music store, and they don't detect changes in the feed well, so you may have to fix your iTunes music store entries if you have one.

Same with .Net Rocks, I had to resubscribe to the feed to get last week's episode.

Thanks,

Branden

I am not impressed with iTunes podcast support. I've noticed the same problem. As for getting into the library, we're not in their database anymore and it's been impossible to back get in there. From what I've heard they could care less about changes to their list, and are not responsive with suggestions. I'll keep trying though.

Sorry the Coral didn't work out. I understand that bills must be paid and sponsors need to know what they're getting for their money.

Is it possible to make the BT feed cover the previous 10 or so feeds? The BT downloads shouldn't affect your bandwidth much (just tracker traffic), and a catch-up feed sure is convenient.

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