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

[Lunitix]

www.libsyn.com - Liberated Syndication.  For a small monthly fee ($5 
basic) they host the podcast.  There is a 100 meg "storage" limit per 
month, but there is no extra fee for bandwidth used in the downloading 
of the podcast.  There software will also help set up the info within 
the xml, including all the iTunes material.

Minding of Madness
Jon

Greg Mason wrote:
> 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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