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bristle-krs · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

apologies - bin busy today

so bootleg show #8 won't be finished till after the weekend, also i won't get a chance to fiddle around with the tcre podomatic page till then either... but i shall definitely be aiming to stick to the one-show-a-week schedule, and get foley #2 done for next friday \

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hiccup · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject:

Just listening to the team9 superchunk now. Tis wikkid \

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Ninjadmin · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject:

god i gotta get some shows done.

still got 3 new krs ones to listen to and breem #2

bristle-krs · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject:

fish #2 is top hole entertainment

hiccup, you still gonna do the soundclash?

hiccup · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

Yeah, up for soundclashing.

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject:

finished no9, just gotta polish it up

Ninjadmin · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:58 am Post subject:

show 10 about 1/3 done, maybe

have got teh best title ever, now i just need the show to justify it

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject:

drew's show uploaded to tcre page, links updated... i can't sort out any more design stuff at the moment till brian podomatic gets back to me on some of the glitches...

hiccup · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject:

Drew's show? Why wasn't I told!

downloadingz

wraeth · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject:

Drew's show??????

Hahahahaha

Must have been hidden in his spam attack yesterday

wraeth · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

oooooo - I like

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject:

http://thecoolesthingever.myfreeforum.org/ftopic4471.php

27 replies!

wraeth · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject:

But only from you, ninj and J

I misseredz it

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject:

it's not too late

wraeth · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject:

^^ It's on now

Am really lubbing it

hiccup · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:21 am Post subject:

lubbing it lubbing it lubbing it? lubbing it like that?

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:26 am Post subject:

attention mi podomatic kru!!11!

eagle-eyed casters will have noticed that we've been given a month's-worth of free pro account-level tools at http://www.podomatic.com/podcast/newstats - detailed locations of subsribers, top referrers etc

well, that only has a couple more weeks to run, but even better is that on the regular stats page (found
at http://www.podomatic.com/podcast/stats ) you can now download .csv spreadsheets with full data (including on individual episodes!) for both the past month & year

wraeth · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:

Missed that Krs!

I'll have a look when I'm a bit less holiday seasoned (or pickled some might say).

Anyways - I bought a mic yesterday :-o A logitech desktop one that you can do skype on too. Apparently it's noise cancelling

So I've just got to get this audacity thing sorted now

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject:

radio dezza - coming soon

Ninjadmin · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject:

i'll start another one now am back in the countryside

bristle-krs · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:15 pm Post subject:

hiccup!

derian!

where's ya showz?!

/teacher

wraeth · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject:

Audacity scaries innit

bristle-krs · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject:

no time to get the jeepers creepers, missus

just treat it like a word document - open a document, write a bit, save it, write a bit more, save it, write a bit more, save it, decide to move things around, go back, cut & paste, save it...

except instead of doing it with text, do it with audio.

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one way to get started - and you'll only figure out how it all works by doing it, like riding a bike or swimming - is to:

1 - choose what tunes you want to play, create and itunes playlist for them
2 - then import each of them into an audacity document you have created

you can do this by either...

-highlighting the track in itunes
-then 'file > show in explorer' (???? i guess - on a mac it's 'show in finder', or apple-r)
-this takes you to the actual mp3, wherever it's located
-now highlight the actual mp3 and (again, i'm guessing how it works on a pc) right-click and 'open with... audacity'
-this opens up the mp3 in a new audacity window
-select all and copy
-switch to your radio show window & paste in
-repeat with next tune, having first created a new track to stick it in (project > new stereo track)

or by...

-in your radio show audacity document importing the mp3 through the 'project > import audio' path (or 'control-i')
-and so on with each new mp3 (this way audacity automatically creates a new track - it's the easier of the two methods)

and don't forget to regularly save!

3 - once you have imported all the tracks, you can record the talky bits. if you like you can write yourself a script so you don't freeze up!

let's assume you want to talk at the beginning of the show, and then between each of the songs, and at the end. right.

first things first: click the 'mute' button to the left of each of the tracks.

oh yes - and make sure your microphone is plugged in, and that you have told audacity to record from the microphone (check in the preferences in 'file>preferences' or control-p, then audio i/o: recording/device/microphone)

now create another new track (project > create new stereo track', remember), and making sure the cursor is at the very beginning, click the red dot 'record' button, and say whatever you want to say to start the show. when you're done talking, click the 'stop' button.

move the cursor back to the beginning, press 'play' and check how it sounds.

assuming that's all okay...

4 - now you want to move the first track into position. click the double-headed arrow button (the timeshift tool), select the first track, and drag it to the right, so its start buts up against the end of the opening bit of chat. click the 'mute' button on that track so it un-greys, and select the selection tool, move the cursor to jest before the two tracks you are working with meet, press play, and check that it sounds okay. if it's okay, save! if it's not in the right place yet, tinker with it using the timeshift tool, then when you are happy, save!

5 - now repeat with each track, one by one...

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ALTERNATIVELY...

instead of importing all the tracks in one go, do it track by track.

whichever way you choose, before you know it, it'll all be done

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now i know the above *seems* like a lot to take in, but that's because it's the hand-holding version.

the really snappy version, which should make you cry in ecstatic excitement at the thought of how empowered you now feel (

) goes more like this:

the really simple, quick version:

1 - choose tunes
2 - write script
3 - create new audacity document
4 - check microphone is your recording input (control-p ‘audio i/o > recording > microphone’)
5 - press record
6 - read out introduction
7 - press stop
8 - import song (control-i)
9 - switch from selection tool to timeshift tool and move song 1 into place after the intro
10 - save!!!
11 - create new stereo track (project > create new stereo track) and record next link
12 - repeat steps 7-11 until end

sorted!

bristle-krs · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject:

handy pic list of the tools:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/toolbar.html#selection

bristle-krs · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject:

http://coolestradio.podomatic.com/ updated, with links and all the latest current shows uploaded.

Ninjadmin · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject:

cheers man

gotta get firky on the blower and see how the website is doing....

wraeth · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:30 am Post subject:

I printed your post krzzle and I'm gonna put it on my pillow so I see it when I wake up and I'm gonna stick it on my monitor and i'm gonna carry it in my bag to read on the tube and and and

fankoo xxx

<girds loins>

wraeth · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject:

Krzzle can you show me how to do it next weekend pretty pleassizzle with cherries on

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject:

ok grasshopper

wraeth · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject:

Fankoo

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:03 am Post subject:

tcre podomatic page 'podcast summary' (top right) updated with links and the promise of radio isambard and josh's 'best of tcre' show

wraeth · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:14 am Post subject:

Every time I blink you come up with summat extra

<taps fingers waiting for J and Issy>

Nick and Dale, you gotta come down for Klub Kabu, jump the trains or summat

Ninjadmin · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:22 am Post subject:

am off to china soon so i'll have to come to one before i go

checked my bank today and it's not good tho

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:50 am Post subject:

dj not-i has started his own podcast, and he's done himself a jingle, which uses stuff from & mentions tcte!!!

not had a chance to the whole show yet (am knackered and am definitely going to bed, right now), but if it's anything near as high quality as his jingle it'll be great

Ninjadmin · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:54 am Post subject:

can we get hime to join us??

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:04 am Post subject:

we can but try

hiccup · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:29 am Post subject:

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject:

aha - well spotted, i didn't notice. should work now (think it's summat to do with “ and ” doing different things to " in the html :?)

bristle-krs · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:54 pm Post subject:

can we have a moratorium on coolestradio.podomatic.com?

it's important to manage it properly, and that means making sure everybody gets a fair shot at getting there shows on it.

*every time a tcre caster puts up a new show, they should delete the file of their previous one (not by deleting the blog entry, but instead by deleting the mp3 file located in the 'my media' section of the 'manage podcasts' page) - and *also* editing the associated blog entry with an explanation that the show has been deleted, and of where else someone can download it from eg that caster's own podomatic page

*please give your mp3s appropriate names, preferably including TCRE in it - eg TCREsoundclash01.mp3 - because this both makes it easier for us when managing the 'my media' page, and also means that our listeners have a better idea of what an mp3 contains if it's floating around on their pooter

*please also remember to fill out the ID3 tags of your mp3, with at the very least a track name (eg TCRE SoundClash #1) and artist name (Hiccup vs Bristle-KRS); podomatic automatically adds the podcast page, podmail & feed info to the 'comments' field.

*when uploading to the blog please try to remember to also add links to the various podcast & website pages to the 'comments' field:

http://coolestradio.podomatic.com/
http://www.thecoolestthingever.co.uk/
http://coolestradio.com/
plus your own podcast page url

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now we have the 'proper' site, maybe we need to think about what we're doing with the podomatic page? it's our best advertised collective page, but i don't see much point in straight duplicating the proper site... i think keeping a selection of shows on it, plus any 'best of' shows (*looks at josh*), and whtever the most recent show is should suffice. i think we're knocking out too many new shows for the original idea of 1 in, 1 out to really work.

thoughts?

hiccup · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:17 pm Post subject:

I think those are some pretty darn sensible suggestions.

I noticed that thecoolestthingever.co.uk now redirects to the blog, but there's no obvious link on the blog back to the boards. Might be nice if there was.