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Listen to me Talkr (kinda) Wednesday January 4, 2006

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I stumbled across this great little free online service for converting your RSS feeds into MP3 files for podcasting goodness. Talkr might not have a trendy logo or backing from Yahoo! but they got themselves an _r_ on the end of the name and a pretty neat little service to boot.

All you have to do is set up a free account then register as a ‘partner’ and add your RSS feed URL. They trot off and grab the feed and you can slap a nifty little link into your page template which links to your ‘Talkr-ed’ mp3.

The tricky part wasn’t getting it to work so much as temporarily defaulting Textpatterns RSS feed to 999 articles so that Talkr could provide audio for even my oldest posts (Sorry if you did an update with your RSS readers during the process!).

So, let me know what you think, click on the Listen to this post link below any artcile title to give it a whirl.

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  1. Steve Ray

    Jan 4, 02:29 AM

    I’m getting an Internal Server Error from Talkr, Nathan. Just fyi.

  2. Nathan Pitman

    Jan 4, 09:07 AM

    Yea, I’m getting that too, although it all worked a treat last night. Looks like they might have some ‘issues’. Hopefully they’ll get em sorted else I might have to ditch this, which would be a shame. :/

  3. Nathan Pitman

    Jan 4, 07:38 PM

    Ah, all seems to be working again now. :)

  4. John Oxton

    Jan 4, 11:55 PM

    Giving this a whirl now, thanks! :)

    ”_he tricky part wasn’t getting it to work so much as temporarily defaulting Textpatterns RSS feed to 999 articles _

    Admin > Preferences >Advanced preferences > How many articles on RSS?

    Or am I missing something?

  5. Nathan Pitman

    Jan 5, 01:28 PM

    Nope, that’s it. I was being a fool and trying to create a specific xml feed for talkr to use, in the end I just resorted to changing the sitewide preference. :)

    Was just thinking how neat it would be to have a little flash widget embedded in each post page which with the click of a button streams the mp3 from the talkr URL. That’d be neat!

  6. John Oxton

    Jan 5, 04:30 PM

    That would be very neat.

  7. Nathan Pitman

    Jan 5, 11:46 PM

    It would, but I’ll never find any time for it. Unless you’re willing to pay for it John. ;p

  8. aringorosa

    Jan 14, 05:19 AM

    Check out http://feed2podcast.com they do something very similar but they include badges and a flash player.
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