Gone quiet

[Martin Donnelly - Unmajestic]

After a flurry of activity in the first week or so, this group has
become quite quiet.

So who is still doing a podcast? How complex is your setup? Do you have
worries about bandwidth..

There we go, some questions to kick of a bit of a debate I hope.

MD

[André Fliß/Planet Groove Prod.]

Hi group,

yes, we are still doing a podcast. So far have no problems with our bandwith
... don't know what the future brings.

We have started another project: our podcast-directory. Since I wasn't
satisfied with the existing ones I thought to start up an own directory in a
very simple but informative way.

You can see it here:
http://www.podcastzentrale.de

Feel free to add your own entry. For all non-German-speaking: The addition
is possible via the link "Podcast hinzufügen".

Best regards,
André Fliß
--
Planet Groove Productions
Altenberger Str. 11
48161 Münster
Germany
Fon: +49 (0)2533/919474
Fax: +49 (0)2533/919475
mailto:in...@planetgroove.com
http://www.planetgroove.com

Surftip: http://www.sonicwizard.de

[DV]

Hello,

Well, I should be less quiet now....I survived the summer quarter at
school, one where I (a) had four of the core courses I teach (HTML,
database development, Linux system administration, Javascript)
completely revamped with new textbooks and everything, (b) a brand new
class to plan from scratch (Legal & Security issues), and (c)
headquarters getting a complete and utter burr up their asses about
attendance rates and writing up every instructor with less than 80
percent attendance at midterm (including yours truly) even though my two
biggest classes are on Friday night and Saturday morning. I've been
completely stressed out and the backlog of music I need to vet for the
show currently sits at July 18. Ouch.

So this week being finals week, I survived, and I made a resolution to
do absolutely nothing work-related at home this week. So far I have
added about 15 new artists to Escape From Noise and a half dozen to
Spellbound, plus a couple dozen new tracks added from folks who are
already on the list.

My podcasts have been late but they've still been getting out. I just
finally got the August 20 episode of Escape From Noise uploaded, and I
should have the August 28 episode of Spellbound up later this morning.
And I'm still working on whittling down the backlog. I'm hoping to be
completely caught up by Labor Day so that I can resume production on my
own music and have it produced, mixed, mastered, pressed, and
distributed by Christmas.

I would imagine my setup is much more complex than most of you here,
because I started out with a music studio, then retrofitted it for net
radio, then used that to produce the podcast. Not that it's
professional by any means, but it's adequate for producing synthpop,
which is more than enough for net radio and podcasting.

I've been a little concerned about bandwidth. So far I haven't run into
any problems because my shows just aren't all that popular yet. :-) But
with each EFN show being 120MB and Spellbound being 28MB, I do rack up
some pretty good monthly file transfer numbers. Plus I also distribute
my own music there, and I host the chat room for Cygnus Radio. My ISP,
phpwebhosting.com, advertises free everything for $10 a month, and they
haven't sent me any nastygrams so I'm guessing it's not a problem yet.


-----
DAVID VESEL -- synthetic music for humans
http://www.purplenote.com/davidv
dav...@purplenote.com
-----
The Purple Note Radio Network:
Escape From Noise, vocal electronica, 10PM Sats http://efn.purplenote.com
Spellbound, music for theremin, 11PM Suns http://spellbound.purplenote.com
-----

[DV]

Hello,

I tried to submit my podcasts but I got an error on the Contact Name field.

-----
DAVID VESEL -- synthetic music for humans
http://www.purplenote.com/davidv
dav...@purplenote.com
-----
The Purple Note Radio Network:
Escape From Noise, vocal electronica, 10PM Sats http://efn.purplenote.com
Spellbound, music for theremin, 11PM Suns http://spellbound.purplenote.com
-----

[André Fliß/Planet Groove Prod.]

Hi David,

I have made a test-entry with your data. Name: David Vesel and eMail:
dav...@purplenote.com

Worked without problems. What has been the error-message?

Ragards

[DV]

The message I get is just a single line of text:

Unkown day: Contact name

[DV]

I think I did something that messed it up a bit. I was viewing your web
site through the Babelfish translation filter in my browser to translate
from German to English. I went back to your home page and made sure I
was viewing the original German text and resubmitted the form and it worked.

-----
DAVID VESEL -- synthetic music for humans
http://www.purplenote.com/davidv
dav...@purplenote.com
-----
The Purple Note Radio Network:
Escape From Noise, vocal electronica, 10PM Sats http://efn.purplenote.com
Spellbound, music for theremin, 11PM Suns http://spellbound.purplenote.com
-----

[elsewhere]

That's usually how mailing lists go. They start off extremely active, and
soon drop to an occasional trickle of posts.

Out of curiosity, of the people that hadn't been listed in iTunes yet when
we last discussed it, have any of you been listed since. I've tried
re-submitting my feed under different URLs, and I'm still not listed. I
don't really even check it any more. I've more or less given up on iTunes.
Is anyone else still having this problem?

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[mailto:Podcaster...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Martin Donnelly -
Unmajestic
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 01:41
To: Podcasters Network
Subject: Gone quiet

[Mark Kanter]

I noticed the question method seems to generate posts.
As moderator I'll try and post an interesting
question once a week, or if someone else wants to
volunteer?

Mark

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Find out Who's Paying What.

[mi...@concertblast.com]

I agree... I suppose the new wore off.

PODCAST: CONCERT BLAST!

DESCRIPTION: 3 guys who grew up together discussing the hundreds and
hundreds of rock concerts they've attended. We also have concert reviews,
interviews with various people, and share our opinions.

TIME: Usually a weekly podcast that last from 30 to 45 min.

SETTING: Usually a restaurant (for background noise).

RECORDING EQUIPMENT: Sit down discussions - A heavy duty cassette recorder
using a cheap 4 channel Radio Shack mixing board ($50), 1 Shure SM58 mic
and 2 cheap Radio Shack mics($15 each) (with table top mic stands).
When recording on the road - Olympus Voice Recorder WS100 ($100 at Radio
Shack) using the hand held Shure SM58 mic. This records in a WMA format.

EDITING SOFTWARE: Audacity and Gold Wave

BANDWIDTH: I get 75GB of Bandwidth a month. So far I haven't passed 20GB
a month, but this is something I keep my eye on because each month our
podcast grows from 10%-20%.

WEB HOST: Globat Best price I could find and has great webstats.

I hope this helps...

Mike Arnold
CONCERT BLAST!
Website: http://www.concertblast.com
RSS Feed: http://www.concertblast.com/shows.xml

[André Fliß/Planet Groove Prod.]

Strange ...

don't know what the/a day has to do with the Contact-Name?
Normally the script answers you on a special page indicating which
entry(ies) was/were wrong.

But I see now it has worked, since I got a message that is showing your data
which I have to validate.

Regards,

[mi...@concertblast.com]

I'm in the same boat with the i-Tunes problem.

I think they are not spending the time with podcasting anymore since they
now have a large directory. After all... Podcasts are free!
I added my link to i-Tunes about 7 weeks ago and I'm still not listed. I
added all the i-Tunes tags and I've even asked Chris McIntyre of Podcast
Alley what else I could do. He said he didn't know either. He said he
wished he did know because that is the number one question he receives.
I continue to submit my link from time to time and I get the message "This
link has already been submitted".

ANY IDEAS OUT THERE?

Thanks,
Mike Arnold
CONCERT BLAST!
website: http://www.concertblast.com
RSS Feed: http://www.concertblast.com/shows.xml


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[Martin Donnelly]

Hey I posed the questions, so maybe I should reply to them. What do you think?

Yes, we are still doing the Unmajestic Podcast from my apartment.
Still weekly, still recorded way too late on a Friday night and it is
still fun. It is getting to the point that I seem to be spending more
and more time working on it during the week than I do actual work. Go
figure.

As for kit, I have a crappy compaq laptop running Cool Edit Pro /
Adobe Audition, two sets of headphones with boom mics and a couple of
Y-splitters. Music and everything else is supplied by winamp sitting
in thebackground and I record everything using the stereo wave mixer.
It seems to do a fairly good job, when I don't futz up the mic levels.
For outdoor recording we have a minidisc recorder and a cheap ass
condensor mic.

I picked up some cheap radio mics on ebay recently and they sucked so
we will be using these headset mics for the time being.

As for bandwidth, I only have 10gig a month, and this month we hit 7.5
gig, last month it was 5.5 so we seem to be getting more and more
hits, today is the first time we have gone over 100 downloads for an
episode mid week. We are quite proud of that. We don't have many
listeners, but so far we have had no complaints, only praise.

Come join us in our organised chaos.

http://www.unmajestic.com

MD

[elsewhere]

The thing that's really weird is that I submitted the feed for another
podcaster on this list using my iTunes account, and that feed was up in a
few days.

I know my feed is correctly formatted, just like yours, so I'm left to
believe that it must be my content (which includes some non-podsafe music)
that they're restricting. I know there are a lot of podcasts in iTunes with
non-podsafe music, but that's the only reason I could come up with.

travis
site: http://www.djelsewhere.com/
feed: http://www.djelsewhere.com/podcast/

[Ken Clark]

Hi all,

I have geen quiet in all my forums and groups, been
concentrating on the show, getting music from musicians and
tweaking the site.

Just did show #46 and going strong with new subscribers
trickling in.

I have a simple setup, MXL 990 mic and a eurorack 802
mixer, 2 laptops and a desktop with pod producer and
audacity. I could make it more complicated by running the 2
laptops through the mixer for some interesting
effects/sounds/fun.

As for bandwidth, I had 50 gig/month at my old site and
would have hit that very quickly in Aug. had I not moved to
Libsyn and left all bandwidth worries to them. With about
40 mb/show and 3 shows a week it adds up pretty fast. The
old host was going to charge 10 bucks a gig for the extra
bandwidth, glad I moved...

Ken Clark
Voicemail 206-203-3070
Seattle and Beyond Podcast
http://www.seattleandbeyond.net

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[Dave Cusick]

I've submitted two feeds of my show to iTunes, the first is the one that I
code by hand, and the second one is what LibSyn generates and includes
iTunes-specific tags. Neither one has been listed yet. I'm actually covered
to play anything I want through my radio station's license, but I'm assuming
the folks at iTunes don't know this and have declined to add it because
they've deemed it "not podsafe."

-Dave Cusick

[guilherme werneck]

That's strange, because I'm also covered to play what i want, and I do so, and my podcast was listed in iTunes directory from the start. I doubt that iTunes folk really listen to podcasts in search of non-podsafe music.

[Ken Clark]

I seriously think they don't listen to the shows, I know of more than a few casts that play illegal (licensed) music and other clips without permissions or paying for it. (eventually, they will pay for it)

 

Ken Clark

Voicemail 206-203-3070

Seattle and Beyond Podcast

http://www.seattleandbeyond.net

 

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[Dave Cusick]

Sure, they may not listen, but I do list three to four artists that I'll be playing music from in my show notes. It's reasonable to think that they'd take a glance at that.

[Candace Corrigan]

Dear folks, my name is Candace Corrigan... I signed up for this group
some time ago and I am just now getting emails. I am not sure what
happened there. I got busy with a number of things, including my
weekly show, so just as magically as the emails did not appear, now I
am getting them. But I am happy about it, as the pod-cast issue is
very important to me.
So... hello again.
I am on I-tunes, was since the first day. I believe that was
because I pay my ASCAP and BMI fees. If you look at their present
top 100's there are only 4 listed... all pod-safe. My show is
interview and performance, so I am interviewing the person that who
is sharing their music. ( a couple of instances I interviewed a
record company, or management teams, but all have been directly
involved with the production of the music or its distribution) . I
talk over the beginnings and the endings.
I am trying to make it very easy to buy the artists music , and do an
artful job of presenting their work. What is interesting is that ,
for the most part, the record companies are behind me, some featuring
the interview on their home page as well as my logo.
I have felt the RIAA like a chilling effect in recent weeks.
I think my next tact will be to publish permission notification from
each artist on my website, and call myself a podsafe podcast at the
beginning of each show.
The new show is great... Sam Bush.
You might check it out... almost all live recordings from over the
years. Incredible musicianship, and insightful interview. H eis a
very nice man.
Anyway, I do think the I-Tunes people need a big sign in front of
the podcast that states that it is podsafe for them to take time to
look at it. They really only have one guy working on the whole shebang.
Regards,
Candace Corrigan
The Nashville Nobody Knows
nashvillenobodyknows.com

[guilherme werneck]

Dave, I think they do take a look, but I also list some of the artists in my website. I think they are less concerned about me because I'm podcasting from Brazil, in portuguese, and I'm filed under the misterious category of international podcasts.

 

cheers,

 

Guilherme