Podcasts

Hello Podcasters. I'm a podcast listener with a request. Can you please add a track number to each episode? It would really help listeners like me who use that field to play the shows in chronological order on an MP3 player. Thanks much.

I've been listening to podcasts for a while, but since November I've stepped up my listening habits. Isn't it amazing how much content is out there? There are new podcasts popping up everywhere, on just about every topic.

Here's my current subscription list:

• Adam Curry's Daily Source Code
• Cast-on
• Griddlecakes Radio
• KnitCast
• Shadow Falls

These podcasts are in the queue waiting to be heard.

• Christa Knits
• It's a Purl, Man
• NYT: Backstory
• Sticks & String
• The Knitting Cook
• This Week in Tech (TWiT)
• Unwound

The list of subscriptions grows slowly because once I find a new podcast that I like, I go back and listen to as many past shows that I can practically download. That can take me back a few months or over a year. There's one exception to that so far, the Daily Source Code. There have been so many shows--what do you expect from Adam Curry, AKA The Podfather--that I only went back 2 months.

Anyway, it's interesting to hear these shows from the very beginning. Usually the first show has the host talking about who they are, why they're podcasting, and what they hope to do. In subsequent shows, you can hear how their style develops, their show takes shape, and the podcast begins to take on a life of its own.

With that, my list of podcasts grows and/or shrinks every month or so. Very rarely am I able to say whether or not I like a podcast after listening to just one show because it takes a while to get familiar with the show not to mention the fact that many evolve over time.

Perhaps I'll add a list of my subscriptions to the sidebar like Abigail has on her blog.