I’m making still more small and mostly transparent changes to the site.

Sometime today, I’ll be pointing the Feedburner feed to the real site feed. WordPress recognizes media files in an entry and adds all the appropriate enclosure information to the feed. That makes it seem a bit redundant to hand-roll the current mp3 feed. Losing [...]

I pulled together another show for Adam Curry’s Podshow this evening – a little half-hour special with music from the past five shows. After I submitted it, I decided to encode and post another version just so you could hear it, too. Consider it a little midnight snack, if you will. There’s no new music, [...]

I’m sure you’ve had those days where nothing, absolutely nothing, went right. For me, that day was Saturday.

Roadhouse 019 took 13 hours to put together. I was just completely unfocused, disorganized and highly prone to stupid mistakes. Remember, I record the show pretty much straight through, so that only occupied less than an hour of [...]

New! Bittorrent Download

The Roadhouse 019 is available for download from the above image link.

It’s officially summer in the US - time to go fishing for the biggest fish in the big pond of blues. The catch o’ the week includes Kimbel Street, Red Hot Blues Sisters, Kisen, Farkle, Nuthin’ Special and many more. We [...]

Michael Butler has a fantastic interview with Stephen Page of KYOURadio on his latest Rock ‘n’ Roll Geek Show. He draws some great comparisons between the failures of the current radio industry and the current music industry. This is an interview you shouldn’t miss.

I’ve been talking with Stephen for the past month or so on [...]

When I was a teen, calling the local radio station to make a dedication was a very cool thing to do. I was actually more often the dedicator than the dedicatee, but it didn’t really make a difference. It was cool just to be able to influence the selections played on the radio.

I got an [...]

The BitTorrent feed is live in the right sidebar, as a link just under the Feedburner feed. If your client supports BT, please take a few minutes to unsubscribe from the .mp3 feed and subscribe to the BT feed. Since the real strength of BT is sheer numbers, your new subscription will help all who [...]

As you can see, I’ve added Bit Torrent links to the podcasts remaining on the front page. If you’re used to downloading the shows directly and have BT installed, using the BT links would be greatly appreciated.

If you’ve used the BT download links, I’d also really appreciate your feedback on the experience. Send me email [...]

New! Bittorrent Download

The Roadhouse 018 is available for download from the above image link.

Sample the home-brewed blues from Roadhouse 018. There’s a big variety to choose from. King Robbie, Slop House, David Rotundo and the Blue Canadians, Thirsty Blues Band, and Spoonful James are cold from the tap. I also provide some palate-cleansing mushrooms [...]

If you noticed horrifically slow download speeds for Roadhouse 017 (as I did), the problem has been solved.

We split the shows up between two servers and adjusted the feed accordingly. I’m once again seeing reasonable download speeds for some of the shows. To equally divvy out the bandwidth, I split these up between even and [...]

Given the size of the metered bandwidth bill The Roadhouse got hit with in May, this is a big, big issue that should be addressed immediately by the iPodderX team. I’m sure I’m not alone in being assessed for unnecessary bandwidth, directly related to poor code in their commercial product.

New! Bittorrent Download

The Roadhouse 017 is available for download from the above image link.

The 17th edition of The Roadhouse is pure butt-shakin’ music. Johnny Flash and the Rockets, Brother Chunk and the Chicken Funk, Joe White, Nobby Reed Project, and Juke House Kings sit at the very front edge of the musical wave. A [...]

I’m happy to say that the Bittorrent piece is up and working, though I have a few small issues to work through this evening with the feed. Today, I’m looking for a few willing souls to test just the download portion of the system. Details and some requests/requirements below.

First, I’m glad to announce a new [...]

With the help of some good friends, I’m nearing the release of the BitTorrent feed for The Roadhouse. I should have further details either later this evening or tomorrow. I can tease you, though, with a bit of information: the need to add a bittorrent feed for The Roadhouse has led to a tool that [...]

Here’s a quick heads-up on a few site- and feed-related items.

First up are the good problems to have. The Roadhouse has put a sizeable strain on the co-oped hosting server. We’re sucking up everyone else’s bandwidth. If my projected bandwidth numbers for June are even close to accurate, we’re likely to top 1 TB of [...]