Podcast Catalog - the IMDB of Podcasts
March 15, 2016 1:55 PM Subscribe
Podcat allows you to explore podcasts and their episodes. People, production companies and podcasts can be searched and are cross-referenced.
Didn't work on the first three browsers I tried. On the fourth I discovered their database apparently doesn't have Jeff Gerstmann in it.
*picks up website, casually tosses over shoulder, makes a note to pick up new website ASAP*
posted by selfnoise at 2:12 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
*picks up website, casually tosses over shoulder, makes a note to pick up new website ASAP*
posted by selfnoise at 2:12 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
It seems pretty sparse at present, and the update submission process appears to be "email us some stuff if you like".
posted by zamboni at 2:12 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by zamboni at 2:12 PM on March 15, 2016
If you look by subject, though, it only gives you 6 podcasts. So not that great for discovery/browsing.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 2:13 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by robocop is bleeding at 2:13 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
My kingdom for a menu.
posted by davebush at 2:33 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by davebush at 2:33 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
This seems like a great idea, but there really should have a better interface than just a Search function.
robocopisbleeding, you mentioned looking by subject. How do you do that?
posted by Sleeper at 2:52 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
robocopisbleeding, you mentioned looking by subject. How do you do that?
posted by Sleeper at 2:52 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Is 25% of it stuff from the Brothers Mcelroy?
posted by drezdn at 3:06 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by drezdn at 3:06 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
To be fair, the McElroy brothers are responsible for roughly 25% of all podcasts nowadays.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 3:57 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 3:57 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
I had such high hopes. I was disappointed. Either the podcasts I was looking for in my tests were not there, or I got the dreaded "Sorry, but something went wrong." error page. And heck, searching for McElroy doesn't even bring up any of the brothers.
posted by cgg at 6:27 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by cgg at 6:27 PM on March 15, 2016
It's awesome if it gets going, but it's such a tiny slice of the podosphere at the moment. My test search "Paul F. Tompkins" should find virtually every podcast in existence as either host, guest or guest host, instead it gets the some he actually led on and a "mention" in one other one-- you can find more just on the Earwolf site. A little better with Roman Mars and his radiotopia empire.
Anyone know how IMDB got off the ground? Where they public at such a very early stage with so many gaps?
posted by mark k at 6:51 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
Anyone know how IMDB got off the ground? Where they public at such a very early stage with so many gaps?
posted by mark k at 6:51 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]
Hopefully it'll grow.
posted by Trochanter at 8:04 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by Trochanter at 8:04 PM on March 15, 2016
IMDB began life, I kid you not, as a list of actresses with
posted by zamboni at 8:05 PM on March 15, 2016 [5 favorites]
beautiful eyes, posted on rec.arts.movies. Other lists were added and edited, and it agglomerated into the rec.arts.movies movie database. Rob Hartill at Cardiff University set up a web gateway for that database, and it grew some more. In 1996 the original coordinator took it private, and sold it to Amazon in 1998.
posted by zamboni at 8:05 PM on March 15, 2016 [5 favorites]
Isn't this already out there? Wasn't there Podcast pickle, Podkicker, Podbeans, etc? I know a lot of them have gone defunct, but even my podcatcher has a database search (two of them, one of which is iTunes, I don't recall what the other searched).
posted by Canageek at 9:44 PM on March 15, 2016
posted by Canageek at 9:44 PM on March 15, 2016
Canageek, the difference is that this indexes the content of the podcasts to indicate whos is named. This is it explained well. Their method also leaves out the hosts.
posted by Mo Nickels at 7:50 AM on March 16, 2016
posted by Mo Nickels at 7:50 AM on March 16, 2016
This is no good. It doesn't even include Knuckle Up, or any of the other fine MMA podcasts, from BloodyElbow.com
posted by littlejohnnyjewel at 8:37 AM on March 16, 2016
posted by littlejohnnyjewel at 8:37 AM on March 16, 2016
The information on the Welcome to Night Vale page is completely inaccurate. Wherever they're curating the information from, it's not working here. There's no report function to point it out to them, either.
posted by INFJ at 12:49 PM on March 16, 2016
posted by INFJ at 12:49 PM on March 16, 2016
I'm with selfnoise, didn't like the GUI feature without some results feedback. I searched on a topic, and not getting anything remotely close, thought my browser was boke. (apparently, podcasts are all about people, sheesh)
posted by xtian at 7:42 PM on March 16, 2016
posted by xtian at 7:42 PM on March 16, 2016
it's a fair beginning - there's a need for a more comprehensive one of these.
posted by j_curiouser at 6:31 PM on March 21, 2016
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posted by Trochanter at 2:07 PM on March 15, 2016