When it rains it pours. I did another beta of our RanchoCast podcast tonight.

Update: Here’s the list of the episodes that survived.

This one actually has a discernable theme- great songwriting. It has songs from Steve Pride, The Star Room Boys and others. It even has a musical history lesson about Jesse James.

So far it’s just me on the mike, but Cassidy has promised to do a podcast with me this weekend.

Feedback is welcome- if the sound is bad, let me know. If I sound like an idiot, I already know that and am working on it.

I trashed my first stab at a podcast and replaced it with the beta version of the now renamed RanchoCast.

Update: Here’s the list of the episodes that survived.

This one only has 3 songs, including one of mine- Haunted House, which I co-wrote with Ronnie Jeffrey. It’s still in early beta, so we’ll see if and how things progress.

I am beginning to formulate a plan for how this podcast might work. Cassidy recorded some on the microphone tonight and seemed to enjoy it. My plan is to implement a family podcast, with everybody selecting a song each week- sort of like Fred Wilson does.

It’s going to have to be fast and easy for me to do it regularly. I’m not there yet, but the fact that I’m considering a regular podcast shows that I’ve come a long way.

After I crapped all over podcasting, I went and tried to make one.

Here is the very alpha version of my first KentCast. This is just 5 songs that happened to be in my Playing Now window when I hit the button.

I’ll post more later, but I believe the combination of the soon to be released version of Media Center, which I have used for years as my primary music player and highly recommend, and King Sparta’s Podcast Creator Plug-In may just be the tools needed to make podcasting easy enough to be useful.

We still have the elephant in the room, and I’ll take this podcast down after I test it in favor of some other stuff that I might actually have the right to podcast. But at least I can now create a podcast with a push of a button. Now if I can just find something I can legally podcast that anyone would want to listen to.

UPDATE: I tested and deleted that podcast and replaced it with the beta version of the now renamed RanchoCast.

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