Yesterday I put 2 audio files in to the feed over at jamesmelzer.net. They were released about an hour and fifteen minutes apart. The second file, which is larger and was released last is going into people’s podcatchers faster than the first, which is shorter.
Now, I’m no rocket scientist and I don’t know much about this stuff but correct me if I’m wrong.
When two trains leave the station and are traveling equal distances and the first leaves an hour an fifteen minutes earlier, shouldn’t the first one arrive first?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Filed under: Podcasting
I’m going to make a guess that the podcatchers in question start with the first entry in the feed (which is in reverse chronological order) and move on down the feed (backwards in time) until they a) get to an entry they have flagged as ‘already downloaded’ or b) get to the end of the feed (skipping files they have already downloaded).
Hmmmm…interesting.
if you ask me, i think its just the net. rules need not apply !