Up the Tree

While prepping my site for the big shove over to WordPress, I happened across an old draft that I haddn’t published. Man it’s amazing what a few years can do… now my writing is lazy and I hate using big words.

h4. 200 Dollar Store

We all understand the basic concept of the dollar store’s marketing strategy; take knickknacks, non-expiring canned goods, the un-familiar afro-American Santa figurines, every product produced by the Lorimar Cosmetic Company, aluminum tins and sell them all under one roof for a dollar or less. There was, of course, immediate innovation and the 99-cent store was born. However, the price drop of one cent did little to instill further consumer confidence or loyalty, but there was a certain ring to ninety-nine cent store, so it stayed part of the cultural vernacular. But I digress.

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Occasionally there may be a time when you really don’t want to publish all the MP3s of a post in your RSS feed. Unfortunately WordPress will not allow you to remove an MP3 it’s linked to. To be more accurate WordPress will always link to all available media files every time you press *Save.*

This becomes a huge issue when you are recording a podcast and linking to various MP3s you might have played during the course of a show. However with the addition of one letter to one line on one page of your WordPress installation you too can be enclosure free… and by free, I mean you will from this point on never have WordPress enclosing files even if you want them. You may of course manually enclose files, but this may problematic for some people.

# Find the folder in your WordPress Installation named *wp-includes*
# open the file in that folder named *functions.php*
# Scroll down to line 766 which starts preg_match_all and edit the bit that should have *http* and make it now read *httpp*
# Save the file and upload to your server.

*What did I just do?* Well, in effect you have told WordPress only to enclose files which start with httpp://www.yaddayadda…… and since no link can ever be on a server that starts httpp it will never include a file.

*It’s ugly, but it works.*

p(note). This hack has been tested with WordPress 1.5.x Please be cautious of modifying your WordPress code and always have a backup in the wings. I take no responsibility for broken sites.

# “(mp3)Airport Motels”:http://www.crystalskullsonline.com/mp3/01%20Airport%20Motels%20copy.mp3 by “Crystal Skulls”:http://www.crystalskullsonline.com/ on Crystal Skulls
# “(mp3)The Loving Sounds of Static”:http://www.ghostly.com/audio/clips/MobiusBand-TheLovingSounds.mp3 by “Mobius Band”:http://www.mobiusband.com/ on The Loving Sounds of Static (Ghostly, 2005)
# “(mp3)Grave’s Disease”:http://www.mattpondpa.com/mp3/mppa_graves_disease.mp3 by “Matt Pond”:http://www.mattpondpa.com/ on Emblems (Play!)
# “(mp3)alotisalot”:http://crownaruba.com/crown_aruba_alotisalot.mp3 by “Crown Aruba”:http://crownaruba.com/ on “alotisalot”:http://cdbaby.com/cd/crownaruba?cdbaby=41db09af14272aa87c0fe033072703ad (Or on f-ing “iTunes”:http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=72874644&originStoreFront=143441)
# “(mp3)Easy to be Around”:http://www.unicornsounds.com/Diane_Cluck_Easy_to_Be_Around.mp3 by “Diane Cluck”:http://www.unicornsounds.com/diane.htm
# “(mp3)In This Home on Ice”:http://clapyourhandssayyeah.com/mp3/Home_On_Ice.mp3 by “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah”:http://clapyourhandssayyeah.com/ on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
# “(mp3)Modern Age”:http://mp301.epitonic.com/streamed/files/reg/songs/mp3/The_Strokes-Last_Night.mp3 by The Strokes on The Strokes EP

h4. Mentioned on Todays Show

* RedWalls missed because of Girlfriend
* Bachelor Life with Chili Dogs
* Podcast Awards
* My Odeo Channel

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*We need some votes!*

If you haven’t voted already, please get over to the “PodCast Awards”:http://www.podcastawards.com/ and give us a vote! Although the prizes kind of suck, we would really like to be able to say we are the *Best Music Podcast* … well I guess I can still say that regardless, hell It’s true ain’t it?!

But since iTunes didn’t list us on their directory, we could really use the spotlight! Hell I could really use a “Chipwich!”:http://www.chipwich.com/chipwich/

_Mmmmm Chipwich!_

p(update). Looks like we didn’t win, but hey don’t let that keep you down! We’ll be here next year!

It’s no secret that Tracks Up the Tree is not yet in iTunes’ podcast directory, but don’t you fear. You can listen to the show, or any other non iTunes listed podcast, in iTunes without a problem. Here’s how…

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