If you come to think of it (29)

2009/07/02 in define this

With podcasts, it’s now like it once was with porn (no, not because everyone already thinks of porn after hearing/reading the first 2 letters). Wait, let me explain. Remember, when there were so many 1.jpg files on every data medium? Rename, rename… Now I’m not gonna complain again about the fact, that I hate it, that jpgs don’t say the “names” of the women they feature (because that would be awesome; just for the sake of finding more easily), but it absolutely adds to how easily exchangeable content has become, how lossy. I just tried to listen to a Monkey Island podcast (downloaded it a few days ago and now I finally wanted to listen to it), but I found several podcast3.mp3, podcast03.mp3 [...] files on my drive. I did find the correct podcast eventually, but it quickly became apparent how disadvantageous this is. “Nobody” thinks of naming it after the title of the show, let alone adding a date or an URL, maybe to the MP3 tags (JPG files allow meta data too, wise up guys!). But no, it’s “always” nothing more than a blank file. If the user doesn’t make all of these notes/changes himself, all this information is gone. I have no way of knowing where I found this podcast in the first place, if I liked it, I can’t listen to more, because only sheer luck could make me stumble about the same site again and even then there’s no guarantee I will notice this. It goes on from here; try to archive such files. In most cases I’ll end up deleting them, because there’s “no” sensible method to do it.