[Speakers] Re: [KLUG Members] CMS again / podcast?

[Greg Mason]

4th generation iPods with color screens, and the new iPod nano will  
display the pictures during playback. Since the other iPods have  
simple monochrome screens, they didn't bother adding that  
functionality. That said, a very good portion of the iPods out there  
are 4th generation iPods (I wouldn't say half, but still a good amount).

iTunes only works with iPods. I don't know of any other player that  
could do the enhanced podcast with pictures. (there are ones that  
play video, however). Also, the only file format that enhanced  
podcasts can be created with is Apple's AAC format (.m4a).

As you guys may know, putting together a podcast would introduce the  
possibility of huge bandwidth costs to KLUG (or whomever is hosting  
KLUG). If it takes off, or gets featured somewhere (which could be  
likely, as we are one of the most active LUGs in the region, if not  
THE most active). Another thing that would be worth looking at is  
whether or not to submit the podcast to various directories like  
indiepodder.org (formerly ipodder.org), and iTunes. For iTunes, there  
are some specific things necessary for making the feed work with the  
iTunes Music Store podcast directory.

As for equipment, the only thing you'd need is a Linux box capable of  
recording AIFF audio or recording directly to MP3, with a decent  
sound card. you'd probably want a mixer with a couple inputs (one for  
the speaker's mic, one for the audience mic). For microphones, you'd  
want a good condenser mic. For the speaker, another thing that would  
work is one of the gaming microphones, as they are generally pretty  
good at noise-canceling, and have pretty good audio quality (these  
are around $50-$70 or so).

hope this helps a little...

-Greg

On Sep 20, 2005, at 11:14 PM, Lunitix wrote:

> I think the equipment issue must be related to hearing the audience  
> when they are interacting with the presenter.  That and the  
> conversations on the side that would be picked up by microphone  
> make it difficult to make a audio program that would flow well  
> enough to be followed. I think the task would be to "practice" the  
> capturing of the presentation for the learning experience.  rss can  
> be coded by hand easy enough. And the link can be listed on the  
> front page of the website for people to add to their podcast  
> softwareof choice. In iTunes, I know this is sacriledge here, there  
> is an enhanced podcast available that allows small pictures to be  
> added to a podcast.  I do not have an iPod, so I do not knwo if  
> these pictures are available on a playback on an iPod or other  
> piture enabled mp3 playerThese can be programmed to appear at  
> specific times in the podcast.  ie Put the frame of the  
> presentation into the podcast at the time that it is spoken about.
>
> We should practice the capturing of presentations just to see what  
> would be needed - equipment and conduct of audience - to get a good  
> recording.   If for no other reason than to learn something.
>
> Minding of Madness
> Jon
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