A PodGuide is a very simple thing. It's the combination of a map (PDF or JPG) of a certain place with numbered dots on it and a series of audio tracks (mp3) which you can download for your iPod. Each numbered dot corresponds with the track number you should play to hear the audio comment about that specific place on the map. If your mp3 player supports the viewing of artwork from the ID-3 tags in mp3 files, then you'll also be able to see a picture of what you should be looking at whilst playing a track. Think of an audio tour in a museum, but not limited to just that. You could have a PodGuide about the 10 coolest pubs in London for example, or a PodGuide which shows you the most known historic buildings in Bruges. But it might just as well be about the most strangest front doors in Kleit (no you don't know Kleit).
The principle of a PodGuide: illustrated example
• On the map all the stopovers are marked with a numbered dot. Each number corresponds with a track number. So if, for example, you are on dot '3' you choose track/chapter 3 of the PodGuide, and the appropriate info will be played back to you. Simple as that.
• To know what to look for when a track/chapter is played, you can check out the artwork, which will be displayed on your mp3 player whilst playing the track/chapter. The artwork is also visible in iTunes (OSX and Windows compatible). Artwork of the enhanced PodGuides will also show you a link to the PDF map of the PodGuide. For mp3 vs. enhanced PodGuide, read 'Enhanced PodGuides' below.
Full PodGuides (audio files, PDF or JPG map and tracklist) are available at the downloads section. Go get one and see how easy it is.
Enhanced PodGuides?
We deliver all our PodGuides both as normal mp3 files and as enhanced m4a chaptered files.
mp3 files: the tracks are all seperate files which get put in a zip file together with the map.
m4a chaptered files: each PodGuide is made out of one single m4a file with chapters in. The map can be downloaded via a link included in the artwork. This version of PodGuide can only be played on iTunes or an iPod. This is why we keep referring to 'track/chapter' since an mp3 will have multiple tracks and an m4a will have multiple chapters.
