Are there any podcasts out there that feature irish trad music? I know that there are some that feature “so-called” celtic fusion bands (i.e. Eric Rigler’s Bad Haggis), but I am looking for more traditional stuff.
Several… but of dubious quality…but that depends on your interests. Go to iTunes music store and search Celtic and Irish music and you’ll find them. Of course, they are free yet this is because they have commercials.
I think there’s some program that will let you ‘rip’ a ‘podcast’ by converting an internet radio feed into an mp3/wav/compatable format. You could use this to generate ‘podcasts’ from Raidio na Gaelteachta or any of the other Irish Trad stations you can find on the net.
Dionys
What I’d love to see (er, hear), is some podcasts (I hate that word) of people doing short tutorials on the pipes. Taking a tune apart and going through it phrase by phrase. Something similar to what Mick Coyne is doing with his uilleann tutor site.
So someone, hop to it.
I don’t know if you can call them podcasts, but if you go to uilleannobsession’s radio link page you’ll find heaps of soundfiles you can download with plenty of piping, as well as flute, fiddle, singing, etc. That one page kept me out of trouble for at least a month. Pity there aren’t more like them around.
also, I’ve found better IRTAD music at eMusic.com instead of iTunes.
- t
Agreed. And it was cheaper, too.
I liked music better than itunes as well, but had big problems importing the ITRAD MP3s from the emusic library into my itunes library.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? If so, how did you work-around this problem?
Normally with iTunes you don’t use the “import” menu item to bring MP3 files into your library. Instead you use the “Add to Library” command, which should be located under the “File” menu (at least it is on the Mac, not sure about the Windows version). Only use “import” to bring in files that are not already in a format that iTunes uses. Use “Add to Library” to bring any standard music files such as MP3, AAC, AIFF, etc. into your iTunes Library.
All that said, however, if emusic files are protected with digital rights management, I wouldn’t be surprised if you can’t add them to the iTunes library…you may need to use emusic’s software to manage emusic files and iTunes to manage files you buy from the iTunes music store?