The iPod Podcasts and Its History

iPod has revolutionized the music industry and how we listen to music. It is one of the most important product that has been manufactured after the Walkman which had gained huge popularity and fan base due to its uniqueness. iPod is its successor and without doubt a worthy one. This wonderful product from the Apple stable is a masterpiece and is a huge hit worldwide. Podcasts on iPod are very popular and happening. We can trace it back to the
starting ipod podcasts, which included creation of mp3 music files which were downloadable and which worked properly on Apple’s wonder product named iPod. After the release of the iPod, people started wondering what different things that they could do with this amazing thing. Some even went to the extent of adding other operating systems to it or some other software on it, which wasnt present on it earlier. However there were some people who thought about using the iPod as a great device for the sharing of music files which worked properly on the iPod.
People were already using Really Simple Syndication which is popularly called as RSS to spread the files among the online masses. Blogs were already using RSS to send files to their subscribers who had subscribed to the posts.However there were few podcasters who thought of adding links to sound files in the RSS feeds and downloading them.

Podcasting naturally became very popular among people and some podcasters gained cult status and had thousands of fans. People started using the podcasts to fulfill their desires like becoming a RJ which wouldnt have been possible otherwise. Other people who were related to the music industry like the DJ’s started podcasting as a great medium to get their music across the internet audience.
Seeing the popularity that podcasts were gaining, some people created softwares which could detect the music files in RSS and download them. Such programs were called as
podcast clients. Seeing the popularity of iPod podcasts, some people also tried using the PSP or PlayStation Portable as a device for podcasts. It was obviously more tough than using iPods as podcasters as it had different software. People started using the iPod podcasts as a means of spreading awareness, giving tips to people, hosting news and many more things.
Now that more and more people are using mobile net and their popluation is growing exponentially, it is great news for the iPod podcasters.