Podcast Morons #10

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      Feedburner glitch affects Juice for Windows users

            •   Problem stems from Feedburner remapping media file URLs in a way that Juice Receiver cannot resolve.

            •   Podcasters have seen an exponential increase in unsuccessful d/ls from Juice.

            •   Feedburner is working on the problem, but the fix for podcasters is to disable download tracking in the Stats tab

      Laporte is first confirmed PME keynote speaker

            •   ww.portablemediaexpo.com

      Podcast Academy will once again precede PME: this year's focus is more corporate

            •  www.itconversations.com—podcastacademy.html

      Podshow intros podcasting services for business

            •   Site requires registration before any details on the service are proviced

            •   www.podshow.com—landing.php

      Winer begins community podcasting directory

            •   Directory is modeled on iPodder's decentralized structure, and non-commercial approach

            •   Article: www.podcastingnews.com—dave_winer_star.html

            •  Directory: podcasting.opml.org

      John Edwards interviews former president Carter

            •   Link: www.oneamericacommittee.org

Five Tips for Mac Podcasters

      •   All current Macs other than the PowerMac towers include a built-in microphone. You can get surprisingly decent sound from this mic, but you'll need to experiment with room acoustics and distance to be sure that you get the best results. When recording, remember to speak directly into the microphone. The further away you are from the mic, the more room and computer noise your recording will contain. Do some test recordings with GarageBand and export the results to MP3 to evaluate your results. Chances are that while the internal mic will satisfy beginning podcasters, those who continue podcasting will move beyond the built-in mic. Samson's USB condensor mic is a great next step.

      •   Although iChat is a great tool for audio chat, it's a poor way to record a podcast. If you want to record an audio interview on the Mac, use a higher-quality audio chat application, such as Skype. iChat simply does not provide the audio fidelity you need. To use Skype to record a podcast on the Mac, you'll need a recording app like Audio Hijack from Rogue Ameba that can capture both sides of the conversation. Both sides of the conversation into a single file.

      •   If you use GarageBand 3's Podcast Studio to record podcasts, be sure to export your file as a song to iTunes, rather than exporting to disk. Files exported to iTunes use the uncompressed AIFF format (the Mac equivalent of WAV). You can then use iTunes to convert your file directly to MP3 and to complete ID 3 tags. Exporting a GarageBand file as AAC means that your file is compressed twice; once to AAC and then again to MP3. this will degrade the quality of your audio.

      •   If you export an uncompressed AIFF file from GarageBand, you can continue to tweak it before converting to MP3. If your levels are too low, for example, you can open the AIFF file in Audacity or Amadeus, raise the audio levels, normalize, peak limit, and then convert to MP3.

      •     WAV files downloaded from Internet sound effects sites, and from k7 voice lines, are often stored in 8-bit, or even 4-bit format. They may also be in a low sample rate. when low bit-rate files are imported into GarageBand, they play at high speed. You can use Audacity, or even iTunes to up-sample the files to 16-bit, 44.1 khz sample rates. then import them into GarageBand.

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