AH.com podcast #2 - What If : Napoleon?
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Maybe just have a nice little Charl-less discussion as I proposed in post #70?
BTW, are you still online, and should I try to get you to my contacts? (You should know my Skype ID - I PMed it to you when the first podcast was starting. Just don't post it here, as it would be a real breach of privacy
)That's it. Eighty minutes of no podcast and even no discussion. Unfortunately, seems I'm out.
I am so so sorry about that.
On Friday my Internet connection finally gave out, and I've spent the weekend without any online access. Just got it back after some very aggressive nagging at my service provider to force them to send someone out here to fix it.
I propose we reschedule and try to get this thing actually happening at a later date, maybe the first Saturday next month (I' booked for the next three weekends already)?
This whole thing also shows a problem with the current setup: we are completely dependent upon my showing up. Now, I'm not going to lie and say I don't enjoy the... power, so to speak, but it's not a sustainable situation and we really need to find someone else who can record in case I can't.
On Friday my Internet connection finally gave out, and I've spent the weekend without any online access. Just got it back after some very aggressive nagging at my service provider to force them to send someone out here to fix it.
I propose we reschedule and try to get this thing actually happening at a later date, maybe the first Saturday next month (I' booked for the next three weekends already)?
This whole thing also shows a problem with the current setup: we are completely dependent upon my showing up. Now, I'm not going to lie and say I don't enjoy the... power, so to speak, but it's not a sustainable situation and we really need to find someone else who can record in case I can't.
The way I do it is actually rather simple as far as these things go. I found a freeware program called Call Grapher that lets me record Skype calls, so I just start a conference call and record the whole thing.
Then I use Audacity to listen through the whole thing and cut out long periods of silence, off topic talk (within a limit, obviously), or sections that end up being incomprehensible because the speaker's microphone cuts out or other issues like that.
When I'm happy with the cut I then convert the whole thing into mono sound (because stereo isn't really necessary for a low to medium audio quality conversation and because call grapher for some reason records the things I say on the left channel and the things everyone else says on the right channel), then with the LAME plugin for Audacity I save an mp3 file, which I then upload and link here.
The recording part is the easy thing. The editing, as limited as it is, takes rather a long time and is quite tedious and boring to do.
If you can follow what I just said there you should have no problems being a recorder for this. All it takes is sufficient space on your hard drive and a decent Internet connection.
Keenir
Banned
i followed most of that; the rest, my dad can explain.
thanks for clearing it up; I'll see what I can do.
It would also be possible to share the burden, like take turns editing or have one person record and another edit. Also preferably at least two people should be recording while podcasting, in case something goes wrong on one end.
That could work. Would only be sensible.
