Re: [ARSCLIST] Podcasting--explained a bit...

[Lou Judson <loujudson@xxxxxxx>]

Wow, are you behind the times! ;-) grin - no offense!

Podcasts are no different from radio programs. It's just the audio 
format and the delivery method.

Create your audio program with your favorite method, be it cassette or 
tape or Wav files, whatever, and then encode it as an MP3 and send it 
offf! That is very simplistic but that is all there really is to it. 
Some of us have been making programs like that for 30 or 40 years or 
more...


DO NOT make individual MP3s and then combine them somehow, unless you 
are using a playlist type of sequencing, in which case they will be 
played in their original format as separate songs.

MP#s can be encoded with rate from 8kbps to 320 or so, with 
correspondingly better sound, and 8 bit or 16 bit or more. The encoding 
rate determines both the sound quality and the file size, and the 
bigger the file the better it sounds.

As aa audio professional, I only use Macs (too lazy to learn the other 
kind of computer) so cannot advise what programs to use, but there are 
plenty here who can!

But the basic thing is, a podcast is nothing more or less than a radio 
program in digital MP3 form. Well, generally they are far less in the 
matter of content, but that is personal taste... mine!

Hope this helps demystify it a little.

<L>

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Aug 22, 2006, at 6:29 PM, steven c wrote:

> Okeh...let me explain further. I currently have RealAudio v10, which 
> can
> record anything I can feed into my sound card...but as its own *.ra 
> files
> (the older version recorded them as slighly different *.ram files).
> Audacity, which I also own, seems to comprehend *.ra format...which it
> can thus save as .wav or .mp3 (there may be other options).
>
> As I understand it, this means that once I get my "78 deck" (a 
> seventies
> "record player" with a stereo ceramic cartridge, which I'll be able to
> plug  into the "Line In" jack of my sound card) properly soldered and
> running, I should be able to create individual mp3 files of my 78's...
> but one record at a time!
>
> So, what I want to do is assemble these into larger, multi-78 .mp3 
> files...
> possibly with spoken commentary (I need the adapter to fit my mikes 
> with
> 1/4" plugs into the mimi-jack)...which I can then figure out how to 
> make
> available to the outside world (or at least the digitally-capable 
> portion
> thereof). Can this be done? If so, how and/or using what?
>
> Finally, I've noticed that MP3 files vary in size (bytes) even though
> they may contain music of the same length. Are there different forms/
> styles/degrees/wothaveya of MP3's, and thus settings one can enter
> or change (presumably) to adjust the sound quality? And...if so,
> what would be best for 78's intended for everyday listening?
>
> Thanxes muchly...
>
> Steven C. Barr