iTunes Podcast Feed

[Bull Shannon]

I was on ItTunes, trying to download an episode from last summer, and it appears that the feed now only has the last 2-3 months of Best Show, along with some marathon episodes and some other randoms from as far back as 2008. What is going on?

[Andrew F]

My guess is that WFMU is only keeping a handful of podcast episodes available as downloads to conserve bandwidth. For an independent listener supported radio station, streaming 13 years worth of a 3 hour show makes a lot more sense than keeping downloadable files online (especially for a show that doesn't air on their station anymore). The show's entire run (with the exception of a few shows that were not archived) can be streamed on WFMU's website.
Or.....
If it's physical mp3 files you want, get to a certain amount of posts on the board and you can access the download section of the site. There's a thread that will point you in the direction you're after.

[BadGuyZero]

WFMU generally only has the ten most recent episodes of the station's shows in the podcast feed. As a new episode is added the oldest one is removed. It costs quite a bit for WFMU to archive shows on the station like they do. I can't think of another station that does it to the extent that FMU does. Shows that aren't in the podcast feed can be listened to via the pop-up player in the archives. The pop-up player works on many mobile devices though with limited functionality. A few months ago FMU completed converting the older shows from .rm to .mp3. Prior to that only the past few years could be played via the pop-up player; if you wanted to listen to the early years of Best Show you had to struggle with Real Media Player.

[DadHasADD]

The title of this thread got me all excited that someone had discovered the feed for #BestShow2014. Ah, pipe dreams ...    

[nrt4]

Not to mention on TuneIn, the Best Show feed turned into the Goddamn Dave Hill Show feed.

[Carver]

The flash-based pop-up player on the archives won't work with Safari on ipod/iphone, but there are plenty of free browser apps that enable flash players. I use one called "Photon" that lets me listen to any of the archives on my ipod touch and t-mobile cell phone. I've worked through a good deal of the show this way, all on my mobile devices.  There is a weird catch in that you have to tap the screen every 15 minutes to keep the flash stream going, but once I got used to that, it's given me hours of mobile Best Show.