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Thursday, December 8, 2005
Recording via Odeo Studio
ATL podcast maven Hilary at podcrawl has recorded a test cast using Odeo Studio. Its just a blah-blah podcast, but the sound quality is excellent. Compared to the horrible, crappy sound I got trying to record Skype conversations, telephone conversations, etc. this sounds fantastic. Its not what you can get with $500 worth of equipment and a little home studio, but its damn good. The podcast did not come through with her RSS feed I had to go to the Odeo site to hear it. But maybe thats just a configuration glitch. Im going to try this out. If its as easy, and good, as it sounds you could be recording all kinds of quick, easy instructional or inspirational audio with almost no effort.Recording from Odeo Studio
Create I did, from Odeo Studio tonight. Just a quick shoutout to my peeps. If you are subscribed, you should have gotten it through the feed. If not, you can go here to listen.
This was so simple. It really does allow the average person to podcast without much in the way of equipment or knowledge of the traditional recording process. Back in June, Ross Mayfield said "Podcast is the new voicemail". Being able to create audio in such a short amount of time was blissful in comparison to the time I put into preparation, recording, editing and posting my first podcast, not to mention the software/hardware purchase, setup and configuration. Tonight I went to Odeo Studio, pressed record, talked a bit, then hit save. This opens podcasting to the masses.
I will never forget the birthday song my brother left on my answering machine several years ago. He called me on my birthday and since I wasn't home, he picked up his guitar and sang to me through my answering machine. Sadly, the song is long gone because it was on a crappy, little tape. Next year, I'll send him to Odeo so I will be able to save my birthday song mp3.
Once again, I am impressed with Odeo. Great job guys!
Terry Frazier at 8:07 PM
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Recording Levels in iTunes
When iPods began popping up with friends a couple of years ago, populated with iTunes from ITMS, something about them bothered me - the overall volume level was noticeably lower (everything else being equal) than on tunes recorded with other software. I didn't think much about it because I wasn't using iTunes or ITMS myself.But recently I began using iTunes in place of my disparate collection of MP3 software. It's faster, easier, one-stop-shop approach is compelling. But it still records with an overall rec level that's lower than I prefer. At least, that's what I think is happening. The lower the rec level the greater amp power needed to reach a given volume level, so you can certainly substitute one for the other. But on little hand-held devices there isn't a lot of amp headroom to play with so I like to rip tunes at the highest level available without clipping.
Any other semi-deaf partially deaf '70s metal heads notice this phenomenon or is it a personal hallucination?
Thursday, November 24, 2005
RIAA President Cary Sherman on Sony/BMG DRM-Spyware
RIAA President Cary Sherman during an online chat with college newspaper reporters:There is nothing unusual about technology being used to protect intellectual property. You can't simply make an extra copy of a Microsoft operating system, or virtually any other commercially-released software program for that matter. Same with videogames. Movies, too, are protected. Why should CDs be any different?Mr. Sherman, Microsoft doesn't give Windows away over the air, for free, to anyone who cares to listen. Microsoft doesn't infect customers' computers with software expressly designed to be invisible, undetectable, and non-removeable. Microsoft doesn't (yet) rampantly ignore the intellectual property rights of its customers in the drive to protect its own.
The problem with the SonyBMG situation is that the technology they used contained a security vulnerability of which they were unaware. They have apologized for their mistake, ceased manufacture of CDs with that technology,and pulled CDs with that technology from store shelves. Seems very responsible to me. How many times that software applications created the same problem? Lots. I wonder whether they've taken as aggressive steps as SonyBMG has when those vulnerabilities were discovered, or did they just post a patch on the Internet?
One other thing to point out: The music industry has been more permissive about copying of its copyrighted product than virtually any other industry. How many burns are you allowed of a movie? None. How many of a videogame? None. You get the idea. Even the CDs with content protection allow consumers to burn 3 copies or so for personal use. The idea is not to inhibit personal use, but to allow personal use but discourage (not prevent, you can never prevent) copying well beyond personal use.
That's what spyware companies do, and SonyBMG infected millions of computers with DRM-spyware. That you are either too stupid to grasp this, or too disengenuous to admit it, confirms again that you and your industry simply cannot be trusted to define personal use, or set the rules for any sort of intellectual property law in this country.
Repeat after me: DRM-spyware. DRM-spyware. DRM-spyware. DRM-spyware. DRM-spyware. DRM-spyware...
Terry Frazier at 5:43 PM
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