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a podcast or an episode of a podcast. But PodZinger lets you actually search
within the transcribed audio of a podcast! How nity is that? If you're trying
to run very speciic searches, or you keep coming up with keywords that
don't ever seem to make it into episode descriptions, try PodZinger. Bear
in mind that automatic auto-to-text transcription isn't always perfect, and
you may have to do some experimenting to get a query that gets you a useful
number of results.
Podcasts only sound like they're really esoteric. Actually they're based on
two longstanding technologies (RSS and MP3) that work very well together.
Use them as an opportunity to continue your information trapping while
getting unchained from your desk.
tip
there are dozens of paid music services online. if you subscribe
to any of them (itunes is probably the best known,) be sure to
check and see if they offer any kind of new music roundup. itunes
(apple.com/itunes), for example, has “new Music tuesdays” and
updates on the front page of its service to keep you posted as
to what music has been added to the site. You can also monitor
amazon for new cd content, as we talked about earlier—often
amazon has samples of music content available.
audio archives
Audio archives are oten easier to monitor than search engines. An archive
is one collection of information, and oten resides on one server, so you
know it's being completely indexed. here are probably thousands of music
collections online, so I will hit only the highlights here, which include a
fantastic old-timer, an unexpected resource, and an amazing archive.
IUMA
IUMA (iuma.com), short for Internet Underground Music Archive, has
been around since 1993, ofering music in a dazzling array of genres from a
dazzling array of artists. Music is available in Real format and in full MP3
songs. Do some sample searching here before you decide what you're look-
ing for—IUMA ofers an amazing number of genres. You may not have
heard of any of the artists here but you will ind something that interests
you, I promise. And bless its little heart, IUMA makes it easy to get updates
on the latest additions.
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