Hi, I'd like to make two points with regards podcasting.
The easier one is I looked up podaudyssey.org and that domain is available as of now. It's $11.20 a year less for multiple years at the place I'm looking. I've also with my new server have the ability to handle dns services. I'm not saying that we would have to go with that, but it was mentioned and I thought for informative purposes I'd look up if it was available, also i'm not sure if that's the absolute cheapest cheapest, but that price isn't bad. Point 2 has more to do with the specific audio format to use. Most podcasts are encoded as mp3's although some will use .ogg files. Both ogg and mp3 are what's called Lossy compression methods, that means in both situations, working on and resaving the file you'll loose audio quality. So for example if I make a file and save it as an mp3. Then open it a bunch of times, make edits and save, I'm going to get a pretty crappy sounding file. Think of the old tapes, anyone copied a tape repeatedly the quality went down as that tape was copied, same concept. To deal with this I would recommend how a friend tought it to me, record in wave so you get the maximum audio quality, then save as a .flac file, that's a lostless compression, which means I can edit it 50 times and never loose quality. Flac files also are one quarter the size of waves. When all edits and editions such as music are done to the flac and it's ready, the last thing should be to save it as the mp3 and it's that mp3 that makes up the podcast. I hope that made sense. Also, it might not be a bad idea to standardize on the type of mp3, mono or stereo, bitrate and sample rate, the higher of which the larger the files. Just some information and food for thought. Dave. On 11/10/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi tom. > As someone who uses ss max that's a good plan, and a nice way of minimizing > need for donations to keep the archive up. Particularly as now with a max > account you can upload files of up to 500 mb, which should be more than long > enough for a podcast. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:53 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra > > >> Hi Dark, >> >> I've been thinking about those issues. I'm pretty sure I can take care >> of those issues if needed. >> >> As far as submitting content if I were the editor of the show I could >> take submissions via Dropbox, Sendspace, or Rapidshare, edit the >> submissions, and put them into an hour long show on a monthly or >> quarterly basis then put them on the host site. >> >> As far as archiving goes my own web space isn't quite up to holding >> several shows, but I could use a Sendspace Max account with 100 GB of >> space to store the show's archives. That would work out for everyone >> as there would be lots of space for archives and I would get Sendspace >> Max points for every archive downloaded helping to contribute to the >> financial needs of the podcast. Then, all we would need is a place to >> put up the podccasts pages and news. Any thoughts? >> >> Cheers! >> >> >> On 11/10/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: >>> I like that idea myself, sinse then it'd be far easier to submit stuff. >>> >>> blind cool tech just doesn't seem as reliable as it used to, ---- they >>> never >>> in fact posted my smugglers 3 review at all when I sent it and indeed >>> some >>> of my older game reviews have disappeared too (I'll stick them on >>> sendspace, >>> but stil it's irritating). >>> >>> Thus maybe it's time for something game specific, and the main menue >>> format >>> works well. >>> >>> My only concerns are firstly, how difficult this will be for the hoster >>> to >>> commit to posting every three months etc, sinse it'd not be good if the >>> pod >>> cast started and then stopped, and secondly whether the older episodes >>> can >>> be perminantly archived somewhere so that they are always available. >>> >>> Provided these things are dealt with I think it could be a good thing >>> indeed >>> and may even contribute something myself if I can. >>> >>> Beware the grue! >>> >>> Dark. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com> >>> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> >>> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:29 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are >>>> sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This >>>> would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. >>>> >>>> How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. >>>> You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game >>>> reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like >>>> Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would >>>> probably work for us as well. >>>> >>>> Cheers! >>>> >>>> >>>> On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn <blindwon...@cogeco.ca> wrote: >>>>> Hi Shaun >>>>> >>>>> I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate >>>>> for >>>>> a project like this. >>>>> I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in >>>>> the >>>>> community. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>>>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>>>> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>>>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>>>> http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>>>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >>>>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >>>>> list, >>>>> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. >>>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>>> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>>> http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >>>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >>>> list, >>>> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. >>> >>> >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>> http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >>> list, >>> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. >>> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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