MP3 blogs: start making sense, please…
In true Tipping Point form, MP3 Blogs are suddenly everywhere.
The problem is, no matter how many handy sets of links people provide or how many features that give you lists of recommended blogs, there is no simple way of keeping in touch with all the blogs and music that’s out there.
It’s a real shame, because they’re doing a fantastic job of bringing music to light that otherwise we might never hear of.
But, having to click on even a dozen sites a week and then downloading interesting tracks is still a bit too much effort. Yes, I could just stick to one or two I like, but frankly, that feels like going to the world’s biggest sweet shop and only asking for a small bag of pear drops.
*warning: slightly techie content to follow*
My first thought, was put it into a Newsreader. So, last night, I had a concerted effort to get RSS/ Atom feeds from as many as possible, planning in an act of generosity, make the OPML file available for anyone. However, very few actually offer syndicated feeds.
I also thought about doing a separate MP3blog blogroll on this site - but frankly, there are lots of other sites offering much more comprehensive lists - and all I was doing was copying them.
As ever, someone was already ahead of me on this, and had found a technical solution. Jeffrey Veen was using a Unix program called wget to scrape MP3 files from whatever blog you like. Only I found even a set of idiot instructions for OSX too complex to follow (sorry, can’t find the link at the moment). *end of techie content*
What we need is something similar to the UK blogs aggregator: either that, or a few more hours in the day. Given the latter is probably impractical (although I can see it being a great vote winner), we’re left with the former..surely there’s someone out there who’s smart enough to do it. Or, knowing how late I am to these things, who’s done it already.
Failing that: if everyone running an MP3 blog could provide a feed that I can read in Feed Demon, then that will be lovely, thanks.