This is one of the reasons iTunes is merely the least-worst of several bad choices for podcast downloading. It regards all audio as being music—unless it is a "podcast", in which case it can suck ass and die, for all iTunes cares. That's why there's no support for increasing play speed in iTunes or iPods or for deleting audio files on iPods. (Correct me if I'm wrong about that.)

Altho, to be fair, Audible also does not support faster playback speeds, so enjoy your 6 hour audio book in exactly 6 hours like a normal person, punk.

/bitter

Am I the only one who listens to podcasts and audio books at 120 to 140%? Do I have some absurdly high listening comprehension rate or something?

All right, but where's part 2? I can' find it.

Also, that Emmitt Rhodes article is damned depressing. Handsome guy, clearly talented, fine singer, and excellent musician. But even so, those songs were just lacking something that would make them hits. It underscores the fact that making good music is really fucking difficult.

Don't a lot of audio players not play M4A (or M4V or whatever)? Regardless, not providing the standard format would significantly limit your audience's options, and that will inevitably reduce your audience's size. For example, I prefer listening to commentaries with WMP, where I can change the playback speed, for example, but it can't play M4A, at least not without some third party codec.

Also, I sometimes import a commentary into Audacity and process it to get rid of noise or to balance the volume or whatever. I don't need to do that with DIF commentaries but when others use M4A and don't produce perfect audio (and DIF audio really is top notch—congratulations, man) it's frustrating.

Sweet.

It's 8000% better than what I could do, which is limited to a rather fancy PowerPoint presentation. Atmospherically effective.

However, I maintain that no one cares about the fate of a guy in a lab coat. I think it's just cultural conditioning. It falls somewhere between a military uniform and a janitor's coveralls.

That's was cool. The droid corporal should have had his legs crushed and just disassembled the broken private to take his legs.

Also, those goddamned alluvial dampers. When is Galactic Motors going to provide a reliable replacement?

Back to the Batman thing for a second.... I don't see why DIF needs to do the Burton-Schumacher ones. However, if Trey worked on BR, and since BR is actually a good movie, here is my enthusiasm for hearing DIF commentaries on the the Batman collection (10 being "watch it now" and 1 being "watch it after everything else in my queue except the 8 Star Wars prequels I have left"):

6 Batman '66
1 Batman animated shows
5 Batman
7 Batman Returns
1 Batman Forever
2 Batman & Robin
8 Batman Begins
9 The Dark Knight

I was tipped off by the nice "Trail of Tears" line. But I don't know where it's ultimately going, which I think is probably your overall intention.

However, nice grainy black and white camera, inept fake cameraman from the future.