Up the Tree » Podcasting http://upthetree.com swing low Thu, 12 May 2011 22:59:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 TUTT 55: Back From The Dead http://upthetree.com/2009/09/tutt-55-back-from-the-dead/ http://upthetree.com/2009/09/tutt-55-back-from-the-dead/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:37:45 +0000 Funtime Ben http://www.upthetree.com/?p=771 Continue reading →]]> Download me - I'm a Podcast

Are you kidding me? A real honest to blog (joke!) Tracks Up The Tree? This must be some sort of mistake right? I mean… Funtime Ben and Just Josiah are dead right? Or are they?

Yes, yes. Get it out now before you’ve heard the thing. It’s TUTT. Back again for yet another stretch. and you thought we abandoned you? PSHAW! You know the drill, it’s talk about not podcasting, Josiah, girlfriends, cats and a smidge of that old time indie music. Hope you guys enjoy.

Le songs:

  1. All The King’s Men by Wild Beasts on Two Dancers (2009)
  2. Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out by Mayer Hawthorne on A Strange Arrangement (2009)
  3. Crystalised by The xx on xx (2009)
  4. Hazy (Feat. William Fitzsimmons) by Rosi Golan on The Drifter & The Gypsy (2008)
  5. Forever performed by Julian Velard on Another Guy’s Songs (2009)

Oh and on the reals, the fruit basket is awesome, I am just bad with fruit. Thank you to the lovely person who sent the fruit basket.

Speaking of my girlfriends cat… I give you my hilarious girlfriend, writing about her cat eating plastic. When it rains it purrs.

I still got it!

]]> http://upthetree.com/2009/09/tutt-55-back-from-the-dead/feed/ 14 A Few Problems and an Error Later http://upthetree.com/2008/03/a-few-problems-and-an-error-later/ http://upthetree.com/2008/03/a-few-problems-and-an-error-later/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:17:02 +0000 Funtime Ben http://www.upthetree.com/2008/03/24/a-few-problems-and-an-error-later/ Continue reading →]]> So, the new show is up. It’s been up for a while. Unfortunately our podcast host LibSyn, who are normally very reliable, screwed up and the show could not be downloaded.

This was both very frustrating and went unnoticed for 2 days.

Needless to say, we’re very sorry that the show didn’t hit people ears on St. Patty’s day and we hope to get this all worked out for future shows. We are also directing you all to the new website if you’d like to leave comments or download the show manually.

Tracks Up The Tree

Check it out and let us know what you think.

]]> http://upthetree.com/2008/03/a-few-problems-and-an-error-later/feed/ 0 TUTT on the horizon http://upthetree.com/2006/10/tutt-on-the-horizon/ http://upthetree.com/2006/10/tutt-on-the-horizon/#comments Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:16:52 +0000 Funtime Ben http://www.upthetree.com/2006/10/24/tutt-on-the-horizon/ Continue reading →]]> I know most of you must be thinking, this guy has some nerve. talking to us without a podcast in hand, but let me assure you I have a podcast up my sleeve and t make matters worse, I think I may have figured out a way to do more of them in the future.

Have strength. It’s coming.

]]> http://upthetree.com/2006/10/tutt-on-the-horizon/feed/ 3 TUTT-WHYME: Drunken’ St. Paddy’s Day Special at WHYME http://upthetree.com/2006/03/tutt-drunken-st-paddys-day-special-at-whyme/ http://upthetree.com/2006/03/tutt-drunken-st-paddys-day-special-at-whyme/#comments Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:21:51 +0000 Funtime Ben http://www.upthetree.com/2006/03/23/tutt-drunken-st-paddys-day-special-at-whyme/ Continue reading →]]> Download me - I'm a Podcast

In an attempt to shake things up here up the tree and to give Josiah and I a chance to have things happen to us to talk about on the show, I headed down to Philly to visit our long time podcast friends Seth and Jessica at WHYME.

The show notes are at the end of the podcast… and really I can’t remember what the hell we played cuz I was drunk (shocking right?!)

Thanks again for Seth and Jess for having me and cutting this show up.

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Tracks Up the Tree on MySpace

On the subject of improvements to the show Josiah and I have been thinking about releasing a iTunes only MP4 podcast feed with artwork and chapters. We just wanted to get your opinion. Is the current standard MP3 golden? Should we bother?

We want to know – you tell us.

]]> http://upthetree.com/2006/03/myspace-alright-already/feed/ 17 Entertainment Weekly Spotlights Tracks Up the Tree http://upthetree.com/2005/08/entertainment-weekly-spotlights-tutt/ http://upthetree.com/2005/08/entertainment-weekly-spotlights-tutt/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:05:59 +0000 Funtime Ben http://www.upthetree.com/?p=563 Continue reading →]]> For posterity’s sake, I thought I would post the snippet about the show from Entertainment weekly (It’s in this week’s [8/26/05 edition] Entertainment Weekly page 61) and post it on the site. (Thanks Arnold for the cutting) Notice what the iPod is playing?


Copyright (c) 2005 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc.

Thanks again to all you listeners and contributors to the show! You guys rock!

]]> http://upthetree.com/2005/08/entertainment-weekly-spotlights-tutt/feed/ 13 How to Stop WordPress from Enclosing MP3s in Posts http://upthetree.com/2005/07/how-to-stop-wordpress-from-enclosing-mp3s-in-posts/ http://upthetree.com/2005/07/how-to-stop-wordpress-from-enclosing-mp3s-in-posts/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:32:48 +0000 Funtime Ben http://www.upthetree.com/?p=550 Continue reading →]]> Occasionally there may be a time when you really don’t want to publish all the MP3s of a post in your RSS feed. Unfortunately WordPress will not allow you to remove an MP3 it’s linked to. To be more accurate WordPress will always link to all available media files every time you press *Save.*

This becomes a huge issue when you are recording a podcast and linking to various MP3s you might have played during the course of a show. However with the addition of one letter to one line on one page of your WordPress installation you too can be enclosure free… and by free, I mean you will from this point on never have WordPress enclosing files even if you want them. You may of course manually enclose files, but this may problematic for some people.

# Find the folder in your WordPress Installation named *wp-includes*
# open the file in that folder named *functions.php*
# Scroll down to line 766 which starts preg_match_all and edit the bit that should have *http* and make it now read *httpp*
# Save the file and upload to your server.

*What did I just do?* Well, in effect you have told WordPress only to enclose files which start with httpp://www.yaddayadda…… and since no link can ever be on a server that starts httpp it will never include a file.

*It’s ugly, but it works.*

p(note). This hack has been tested with WordPress 1.5.x Please be cautious of modifying your WordPress code and always have a backup in the wings. I take no responsibility for broken sites.

]]> http://upthetree.com/2005/07/how-to-stop-wordpress-from-enclosing-mp3s-in-posts/feed/ 3 Stop Whatever You are doing and Vote For Us! Now! http://upthetree.com/2005/07/stop-whatever-you-are-doing-and-vote-for-us/ http://upthetree.com/2005/07/stop-whatever-you-are-doing-and-vote-for-us/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:21:58 +0000 Funtime Ben http://www.upthetree.com/2005/07/20/stop-whatever-you-are-doing-and-vote-for-us/ !

*We need some votes!*

If you haven’t voted already, please get over to the “PodCast Awards”:http://www.podcastawards.com/ and give us a vote! Although the prizes kind of suck, we would really like to be able to say we are the *Best Music Podcast* … well I guess I can still say that regardless, hell It’s true ain’t it?!

But since iTunes didn’t list us on their directory, we could really use the spotlight! Hell I could really use a “Chipwich!”:http://www.chipwich.com/chipwich/

_Mmmmm Chipwich!_

p(update). Looks like we didn’t win, but hey don’t let that keep you down! We’ll be here next year!

]]> http://upthetree.com/2005/07/stop-whatever-you-are-doing-and-vote-for-us/feed/ 8 How To Subscribe To Tracks Up the Tree in iTunes 4.9 http://upthetree.com/2005/07/how-to-subscribe-to-tracks-up-the-tree-in-itunes-49/ http://upthetree.com/2005/07/how-to-subscribe-to-tracks-up-the-tree-in-itunes-49/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:28:21 +0000 Funtime Ben http://www.upthetree.com/?p=547 Continue reading →]]> It’s no secret that Tracks Up the Tree is not yet in iTunes’ podcast directory, but don’t you fear. You can listen to the show, or any other non iTunes listed podcast, in iTunes without a problem. Here’s how…

h4. The first Option

# Find the Podcast RSS feed. Mine is located in the right column with a little orange “XML” button
!(photo)http://www.upthetree.com/wp-uploads/tutt.gif(find the xml)!
# Simply drag the link into the Podcast area of iTunes and that’s it.

h4. If That Doesn’t Work

# Find the RSS feed and right-click (control-click on Mac) and *Copy Link.*
!(photo)http://www.upthetree.com/wp-uploads/tutt2.gif(click the rss)!
# Open iTunes and under *Advanced* select *Subscribe to Podcast…* and *Paste* the address into the space provided.
!(photo)http://www.upthetree.com/wp-uploads/tutt3.gif(subscribe)!
# Then all you do is paste in the address and you’ll have Tracks Up the Tree on your iPod from then on!

That should just about do it. If there are any other questions or clarifications needed drop me a comment.
_Happy Listening!_

]]> http://upthetree.com/2005/07/how-to-subscribe-to-tracks-up-the-tree-in-itunes-49/feed/ 1 iTunes’ Podcast Setting http://upthetree.com/2005/07/itunes-podcast-setting/ http://upthetree.com/2005/07/itunes-podcast-setting/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:09:09 +0000 Funtime Ben http://www.upthetree.com/2005/07/18/itunes-podcast-setting/ Continue reading →]]> Recently while encoding a CD I noticed that the new iTunes 4.9 now has a setting for Podcasts under the AAC(Advanced Audio Codec) codec. This of course is a little cheeky in that you can only play podcasts encoded with Apple’s AAC on iPods. I would imagine the quality of the recordings is superb, but the loss in market you will get only encoding for iPods makes it a bad choice… I would recommend all you Podcasters to stay away from this setting if possible.

!(photo)http://www.upthetree.com/wp-uploads/encoding.jpg(encoding settings)!

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