Comments on: De-Flashing The AudioShocker http://www.audioshocker.com/2010/04/07/de-flashing-the-audioshocker Comics, Movies, Fighting Games, and Pop Culture. 3 New Podcasts Every Week! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nick marino http://www.audioshocker.com/2010/04/07/de-flashing-the-audioshocker#comment-34076 nick marino Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:46:58 +0000 http://www.audioshocker.com/?p=4802#comment-34076 hahaha our show isn't that bad! i have no idea regarding the ogg thing. i was pretty sure it plays the mp3. hahaha our show isn't that bad! i have no idea regarding the ogg thing. i was pretty sure it plays the mp3.

]]> By: nealllllllllllll http://www.audioshocker.com/2010/04/07/de-flashing-the-audioshocker#comment-34070 nealllllllllllll Sat, 23 Apr 2011 03:56:37 +0000 http://www.audioshocker.com/?p=4802#comment-34070 so. looks like this is less of an issue today than it was a year ago. podpress now defaults to an integrated html 5 player in chrome (hey nick, is it doing the transcoding to ogg too? or is actually plays mp3s? because i was pretty sure html5 still didnt support native mp3 audio) of course, none of this is going to get people to listen to your podcast if it sucks. a problem that nick and i have yet to solve. but at least you can listen to us across platforms and devices. we might not have much to say - but you can hear it almost everywhere you go. so. looks like this is less of an issue today than it was a year ago. podpress now defaults to an integrated html 5 player in chrome (hey nick, is it doing the transcoding to ogg too? or is actually plays mp3s? because i was pretty sure html5 still didnt support native mp3 audio)

of course, none of this is going to get people to listen to your podcast if it sucks. a problem that nick and i have yet to solve. but at least you can listen to us across platforms and devices. we might not have much to say - but you can hear it almost everywhere you go.

]]> By: neal http://www.audioshocker.com/2010/04/07/de-flashing-the-audioshocker#comment-10444 neal Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:10:25 +0000 http://www.audioshocker.com/?p=4802#comment-10444 nick, your site looks a lot like the AS site, 50% functional or so. You do have some cleaning up to do html wise, but overall it's the flash elements that break render the site little more than an rss feed. you are of course correct about users being able to use iTunes - but in a general sense, non-flash tablets, or other OS microcosms will continue to mess with the simplicity of a single website. and perhaps that's just the issue - why are we so intent on a full browsing experience on tablets/iPad? Is it a neccesity? Perhaps when someone hands you a full color device it is - but after a few years of feed based news consumption, fully compliant websites are a lot less important than fully viewable/watchable/listenable posts. nick, your site looks a lot like the AS site, 50% functional or so. You do have some cleaning up to do html wise, but overall it's the flash elements that break render the site little more than an rss feed.

you are of course correct about users being able to use iTunes - but in a general sense, non-flash tablets, or other OS microcosms will continue to mess with the simplicity of a single website.

and perhaps that's just the issue - why are we so intent on a full browsing experience on tablets/iPad? Is it a neccesity? Perhaps when someone hands you a full color device it is - but after a few years of feed based news consumption, fully compliant websites are a lot less important than fully viewable/watchable/listenable posts.

]]> By: nick marino http://www.audioshocker.com/2010/04/07/de-flashing-the-audioshocker#comment-10441 nick marino Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:36:36 +0000 http://www.audioshocker.com/?p=4802#comment-10441 OH NO!! seriously, how did my site look? i just took it out of straight HTML recently and put it into WP... maybe i shoulda left it! as for the audio issue, i've always struggled with this. even the old player i used on nm.net was a flash player. there's just not a good solution otherwise except for putting up a link to the file and letting people handle it manually (which they can still do with our podcasts). oh, and since they're on the iPad, they can just listen to us through iTunes, right? OH NO!! seriously, how did my site look? i just took it out of straight HTML recently and put it into WP... maybe i shoulda left it!

as for the audio issue, i've always struggled with this. even the old player i used on nm.net was a flash player. there's just not a good solution otherwise except for putting up a link to the file and letting people handle it manually (which they can still do with our podcasts).

oh, and since they're on the iPad, they can just listen to us through iTunes, right?

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