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#1 Keenath May 11, 2010 11:20:07

Why have you guys started posting your podcasts in M4A format instead of MP3? Many mp3 players -- the cheaper non-iPod sorts -- are unable to handle this format.  The whole point of podcasting is making it available to people so they can put it on a portable player and wander away from the computer with it.  If you weren't trying to do that, you would just put up a stream instead of a podcast. What's the benefit to an M4A?  Do you have some sort of embedded content in there?  Did you decide bigger numbers are just better?  What's the gain?  Is the benefit so great that it outweighs the annoyance of giving your listeners a format they can't all use? C'mon.  Don't get fancy.  Just give us a plain old MP3 that we can use with any device on the market, okay? Edit: Okay, apparently the link on the website leads to an MP3 version of the file -- so to modify the question, why does your feed send out the less-compatible m4a?  Somebody there must be encoding the file twice, so it's not like this is an accident or oversight, right?