8 May 2008
TWIP Poll Results - How Do You Listen?
Posted by Scott under: Site Info .
The results of the last poll are in. It’s not very surprising news. The majority of you use an iPod or iTunes to listen.
We have seen a lot of interest in the polls so we’re going to run them every week now.
The next poll is “How do you manage your photo library?”
You’ll have a week to answer. The poll is designed to allow only one vote per computer.
12 Comments so far...
Joe Rodricks Says:
8 May 2008 at 4:13 am.
Zune… heh. Not sure this is the proper place to comment but what the heck. I watched the latest “Converting to B&W in Photoshop” podcasts on my iPhone. Now the aspect ratio is perfect so I’m sure it was intentional but it’s amazing to me that a screencast on such a small screen is effective. Oh how I love portable media!
Macdane Says:
8 May 2008 at 6:14 am.
Ha!
‘The next poll is “How do you manage your photo library?”‘
…I’m just waiting to see if one of the choices is “rather poorly.”
Erigami Says:
8 May 2008 at 11:17 am.
Perhaps so many people use iTunes and iPods to listen to your podcasts because they use iTunes urls. I’d like to listen to TWIP on my PSP, but the iTunes urls don’t point to valid RSS, so I can’t.
TJ Asher Says:
8 May 2008 at 12:10 pm.
It looks like I might be the only vote so far for Expression Media. 
I’m a long-time IView Media Pro user who got the free upgrade to Expression Media.
I’m still using ver 1 of it. I just used my old IView catalogs when Exp Media went live with no conversion effort. On the Mac, Exp Media is MUCH superior to the last MS Build of IView which did nothing more than cram MS style button icons into it.
I’m too lazy to re-catalog everything in another program so I continue to use Exp Media to tag and keyword and use other apps for image processing and manipulation as necessary.
Kelly Spore Says:
8 May 2008 at 2:46 pm.
Okay, I’ve listened to Scott and Alex talk about this issue several times on this podcast and on others occassionally. While there are many other tools out there for podcasts, iTunes has the most market share and is the one I personally use and feel it work quite well; plus it plays friendly with my iPod and iPhone, big surprise. The ability for Alex to embed photos, chapters, text and everything else is fantastic as well and much liked by me and I suppose many others.
That being said. If Alex can provide a “white box” version that is just the MP3 with nothing fancy in a cross platform, cross application RSS feed then I think that’s the way to go. I believe TWIT does this, an AAC version and an MP3 version. Put the extra time in the AAC for iTunes version but supply an MP3 for Zune users and others that wish to use the player of their choice.
To me that’s the most fair way to go about it to insure the widest possible audience.
Just my opinion, not to be confussed with the masses.
Nicole Young Says:
8 May 2008 at 3:39 pm.
The new poll is interesting. I use Lightroom in my workflow, but don’t use it to manage ALL of my images (just plain-old folder organization for me). Once I am finished with the RAW files I remove them from LR … keeps it nice and neat that way.
jacksonmacd Says:
11 May 2008 at 9:29 am.
I agree with Kelly Spore. If I had taken the poll, I would have no choice but to answer “iTunes” because you don’t supply an MP3 feed that I can transfer to my generic MP3 player. I wonder how many of the iTunes people are in the same boat?
Bryan Says:
12 May 2008 at 11:22 pm.
Agree. The poll is pretty much given with blinders on. If the only tool you are given to work with is a screwdriver, then there’s not much use in trying to drive nails. I have plenty of non-iPod/iTunes ways of playing mp3s, and they can all deal with mp3s that have the “Advanced” stuff in them. I just refuse to install iTunes on my Windows machine in order to listen to TWiP. I use a feed aggregater to auto downloads from RSS enclosures (FeedDemon). AFAIK, none of the other TWiT podcasts have such “restrictions”.
Kevin E. Says:
16 May 2008 at 8:13 pm.
I’m in the 2.something percent of people that use a Zune to listen to the Podcast. AAC is fine with me, in fact that is how I am getting it now. As long as the files aren’t DRMed the Zune can handle aac files.
