podcasting at sl4db

I missed the President's Day show of SL4DB.COM, which means no new recordings were made in this new venture.

I started recording two weeks ago, had the computer crash on me while uploading. It meant I should put more work into it. Once at home, I edited a few of the individual recordings and put each one up separately instead of one big huge mp3. But that means I would have to work harder to enter each performer's name in there, and record it to a unique mp3 "show" as they call it. Once I have a name in, it's going to be easier to overwrite the last one. Yes, that's how I see it: podcasts aren't a permanent archive, they are something you can subscribe to. You can actually put a link to your favorite performer's show inside pages like "My Yahoo" and access the show from there. There's a link to a strange code sequence (XML) next to the link to the mp3, and that's the link you copy as "RSS feed". It sounds like I know what I'm talking about, but I'm not.

We also didn't have a proper microphone, and used my notebook computer's internal. I tried to plug the sound system's line output into my computer's Line In, and it made the whole sound system hum annoyingly. I'm always surprised that an "IN" connection can cause noise at the other end. I'm sure an Electrical Engineer could design a filter for that. So next Monday, February 26, we'll try with a separate, directional microphone, and it will sound just as if you were there...