Dear KFYI Webmaster

[ykw]

First, thank you for making the station's local programming available via podcast. It is a great convenience to have access to programs which air during my work hours, and it is a great blessing to come home to hours of Jim Sharpe and, yeah, even Barry Young.

Next, thank you ever so much for the unexpected gift of six gigabytes' worth of Nearly Famous archival programs to which I arrived home Sunday.

In the future, please find some way not to do that again. My hard drive is not a duck to be fattened for digital foie gras.

If you find you absolutely must put these archives online, perhaps a separate archive RSS page would be in order. Scratch that; a separate archive RSS page is an absolute must.

Oh, my poor, poor hard drive.

Sincerely,

ykw

 

[KOOL Listener Lauren]

What are you doing? Downloading and saving them?

 

[landtuna]

Oh, my poor, poor hard drive.

If six GB is driving your hard drive into destruction perhaps you need to invest in a state-of-the-art drive.

 

[johndavis]

Oh, my poor, poor hard drive.

If six GB is driving your hard drive into destruction perhaps you need to invest in a state-of-the-art drive.

Unless the problem is it's filling up a 8GB iPod Nano. I had to turn off all of my podcasts because I was running out of room for tunes.

 

[NoDice69]

Yeah, they're not the most careful people over there in the KFYI web department.

 

[tanneritekid]

6 gigs? HAHA!

Ok, are you using itunes to do download them?

On another note...

PLEASE, level the audio out.

Cant hear Michelle and the bummers are blowing my ears out..

 

[ykw]

What are you doing? Downloading and saving them?

I have podcasting software set up to catch new NFBY and Jim Sharpe shows as they become available. I don't save them for any length of time; I do listen to them after work.

What happened over the weekend was that the KFYI webmonkey moved a bunch of old, old shows into the regular RSS list; my software, thinking the shows to be new (after all, they were new to my software!), dutifully accepted the new/old shows for download. Hundreds of 'em. None that I'd ever wanna hear after so long.

Oh, my poor, poor hard drive.

If six GB is driving your hard drive into destruction perhaps you need to invest in a state-of-the-art drive.

OK, I exaggerate. A little. It's more an annoyance than a hazard. But I was lucky that it was only six gigs; it coulda been sixty (which would have stuffed my main HD).

 

[landtuna]

But I was lucky that it was only six gigs; it coulda been sixty (which would have stuffed my main HD).

Are you describing a hard drive on any sort of modern PC/MAC? Mi Gawd man....we've been into the terabyte age for several years now. Six GB is hardly more than an hour-and-a-half of video.

Pony up for a 1-2 TB external drive (under $100 to a bit over $100 now) and you won't care if KayEffWhine-I's webmonkey moves his entire porn collection to your computer. (Well, OK, maybe you will but not for disk space issues.) ;D

 

[davideduardo]

Are you describing a hard drive on any sort of modern PC/MAC? Mi Gawd man....we've been into the terabyte age for several years now. Six GB is hardly more than an hour-and-a-half of video.

Many of us use laptops, where 6 gigs, while not a drive-filler, is a big chunk of space. I use an SSD, where there are no 2.5" or 1.8" terrasbyte drives, and a 512 gb drive is $1400. While I rotate through a half-dozen USB backup drives, I keep them spread over four locations and don't use them for storage off the main drive... the second SSD in my laptop is an image backup of the main drive in case of failure while traveling.

No website should push 6 gb of content unasked and unoprompted. THose using things like iPhones would not only find their memory used up but the data charges could be very expensive for those not on unlimited data plans, not to mentioon the hogging of the line during the transfer. Even us laptop users are often on wireless WAN or slower hotel or hotspot connections and don't want 6 gb pushed at us.