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As you may know, I like listening to podcast audio novels. I think they are a great idea, and a fun thing to load up a player with for a long journey (or tedious meeting, or whatever). So I was interested to spot in the ipodder.org new podcasts announcement blog an announcement of the serialization of “Claybourne", described as “A sci-fi / supernatural thriller / soap opera podcast drama".

I popped the feed into the ipodder client, only to find that it only contains episodes 16-25.

If I may be so bold, that’s a plainly stupid idea. While there is some justification for only listing the most recent entries in something like a link or news blog, or the kind of “thought for the day” podcast that a lot of people seem to produce, I can’t imagine anyone would want to start listening to a story from anywhere other than the beginning. Duh.

So, just in case anyone else is syndicating an audio book and heading for this problem, make sure your RSS feed is locked down to include all the episodes, right from the start, not just the last 10.

If I can find the first 15 episodes I might listen to the story, otherwise it’s just wasted space and bandwidth. Please wise up guys.

Read more (well, read some, anyway) at ThePodcastNetwork :: Claybourne