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Open source audio doftware and podcast hosting - 2006/04/17 23:32 I am working at making a regular podacst for the Bazaar.

At the moment I am using Apple software - Garage Band and iWeb and publsihing to .mac.

Two questions - what open source sofwtare is there for creating audio - though I have to say I like GarageBand.

More important - - although easy to use - iWeb seems pretty crude. How should I produce web pages for the podcasts and where should we host them? Of course coudl put as a fule attachent in the Serendipity blog which is run on this site but I am not sure that is the best option. Is there a free hosting site with an open API we can use in the blog?

Any help greatly appreciated.
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Re:Open source audio doftware and podcast hosting - 2006/04/30 22:13 Hey Graham

Audacity is pretty widely used by many podcasters that we know of, and has the twin advantages of being cross platform and open source. My partner is a podcaster and used a mix of castblaster and audacity.

She hosts Cast-On (www.cast-on.com)at libsyn. The nice thing about libsyn (www.libsyn.com)... well, where do I start!

Ok, first we are not a huge fan of their off the peg blog template, but they do support wordpress/feedburner integration so that's the way we went. We burned through our allocated bandwidth on our site host in the first month of publishing. With libsyn, you pay for a cirtain amount of uploads per month, and it really is unlimited downloads.

The way Libsyn works that it has 2 types of storage. It keeps new files in the faster storage network and then after a month it archives the files into a slower portion of network so files are always availible, but a little slower to download.

The stats reporting is good too.

Dunno if that's any help

Tonia
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Re:Open source audio doftware and podcast hosting - 2006/05/01 04:38 Audicity is indeed great. Free and Open Source.
It can be found on http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

It's available for Windows, OS X and Linux

Post edited by: raymond, at: 2006/05/01 04:38
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