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Yeah, everybody. It's the Daily Source Code. I'm Adam Curry and I'm trying out some new

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software today for the, what the heck was called, the show. First of all, let me

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dog into the studio here. Come on, Jess. Come on. Because the dog wants to go outside. So I had put out a request for

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software that I could actually do these recordings with and plenty of suggestions. Nothing exactly what I wanted.

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One, a couple for GarageBand, which I did like. I did try out. And you know, you really can't do the live mix and

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starting stuff in.

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in starting songs and maybe sound effects or audio bits.

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If it's a timeline based recorder editor,

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you really need just a couple of buttons

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that you can assign to sound files.

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You have to be able to hit them

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and the output needs to be combined

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with the microphone channel into an MP3 file.

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What I did like about GarageBand though

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was the great effects and the preset effects

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that I could use on the microphone.

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Really sound good as opposed to this crappy sound

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that I have now.

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And I'm gonna explain a second what I'm using.

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Hold on a second.

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Dogs back in, would like to leave.

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explain. There's a, what I call the studio is a bar in one far end of the house and there's a

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door open here that goes out into the back patio and into the grounds and Jesse, our biggest dog,

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knows that that's a quick way out. All right, other suggestions were Audion,

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which again, you know, you can, that'll let you record an MP3 mix down, a playlist of songs

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mixed together, which you could talk over, which isn't quite what I'm looking for. Acoustica,

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which is something that Dave posts on his site as a recommendation. Again, that's not what you're

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looking for when we're doing this kind of stuff. That's a timeline based recorder and editor,

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although great for pre-recording stuff and it's not really good for the live environment.

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And then it hit me that really, there's so many different

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Um

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Um...

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applications that I use for different real-for-sound.

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I may use iTunes for one reason, perhaps for some of the digital signal processing features.

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I may just use a quick time player and other instances.

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I can create the mix on my speakers almost, because I have a program that will record

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my voice.

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Maybe what I'm looking for is just a very small application that will actually record

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a mic in channel or line in channel, a microphone channel, and then anything else that's on

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the speakers.

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Anything.

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There's got to be a way to hook into that somehow and the poor audio or whatever it

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is on the Macintosh.

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Anyway, I finally wound up using Studio 365 Live.

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I'm going to put a screenshot of it on my web log at live.curry.com.

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hum because that interface really shows what I'm talking about and it's really really

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simple. There's a playlist window where you can put songs that will play in order or

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that's where I just store the song of the day. There's two what they call cart machines

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and you can load up an mp3 in that and hit a button that starts immediately and then

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there's a mic channel that you click on or off and you can set your levels and that's

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basically it. The downside here is that I'm also pooping out 64 kilobits a second of

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whatever to live 365 server which they've already sent over 2 megabytes but it does

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let you record a copy of the output that you're sending up to their server as an mp3

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on your desktop. So that's how I'm doing it today and that's what gives me the opportunity

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to play the song of the day which is something that's just perfect for a Sunday afternoon here

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in Belgium. It's sunny and the temperature's nice.

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cool maybe for the summer but it just kind of gives you this type of vibe. You just want

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to hear a little bit of the small things.

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[ Music ]

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[ Music ]

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They all corrupt, you're not the one which my center path is free.

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[ Music ]

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Well it's all too beautiful. It's your good part. Small faces. Look at this. Apparently,

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the playlist is on repeat. Okay, so again, it's all about the interface in this case,

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and a couple of other items in the news. I just want to talk about briefly. One is that

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I woke up this morning and the Dutch teletext, which is kind of like a newspaper on your

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TV. It's kind of like web pages. They all have a number and the signal is sent along

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with the television signal and it's decoded. So you can actually just read text on your

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television, hence the name teletext, that in Arumaita in Iraq, which is in the southwestern

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region where the Dutch troops are stationed.

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that last night one soldier was killed, four were seriously wounded.

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And the Folkskrant, which is one of the larger newspapers here,

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the very left wing, was the only one online with the story,

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see around 8 o'clock this morning.

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And for hours, and I haven't checked just recently now,

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it's at three in the afternoon, you know, there was nothing on CNN.com

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or AP or Reuters, there was just nothing about it.

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And as a part of the coalition, you know, whether I agree with us being there or not,

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that sucked, you know, it's like, hey, come on, aren't we a part of the whole global group here or what?

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And it also really hit home because I've been to that camp where this happened.

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So, and I do remember of all the trips we took, we all collectively actually felt that we were

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most unsafe there and we actually did most of the walking there at the time and crossed

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a platoon bridge. I believe that was all in out of my town. And yeah, it was kind of shocking.

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It brings it all back. And what's going on in Texas? The sixth person this year to die from the

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flesh-eating bacteria. This is, you know, this is worrisome. See, this guy was pretty young too.

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I think I was like 52 years old. Let me see. Of course now I almost have no bandwidth left to

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surf to stuff because I'm sending my signal up to a live 365. But,

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Bye.

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Okay, never mind that, but another case of this weird flesh-eating bacteria, apparently

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this guy, he was, I think it was a 52 when he was a doctor.

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He cut himself boating and it got infected, they had to amputate the knee, blow the knee,

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and he died.

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The bacteria ate him up.

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I wouldn't mind knowing a little bit more about that and how to avoid it.

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And finally I released the iPod or script today, released being a big word.

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But I got so fed up with just having this, I lost my scripts and recompiled or compiled

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them incorrectly so I couldn't get the real source back.

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So I'd step back to a couple versions ago which I'd saved.

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I've gotten much better at that now and I reconstruct what I had done and of course

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the script came out even better and it's working really nicely.

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I figured alright now is the time to get it out there.

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People look at it so you can understand.

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What is I've been talking about?

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How I see a totally open market?

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Because I'm on a Mac, I did it all on a Mac, it works on a Mac, but the iPod is also kind

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of ours, right?

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It's not that we let them use it now.

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But just by connecting all these dots, I think it's really interesting where you fire

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the script up and it does all the work for you.

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All you have to know about as someone who has an iPod and a Mac is that you receive new

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audio shows automatically, you didn't have to do anything, no downloading, no transferring,

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just put your iPod in the dock and you're good to go.

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And there's a million different things that I could have done better in the script and

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it's not even really ready to run if you don't know what you're doing in Apple Script.

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You have to change the folder basically where you want all the file stored.

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Download with caution is a link to it on my on my web log and

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Tomorrow it's back to work again two more weeks of doing the morning show up until August 31st, and then

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That's it. I'll be a free man

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And looking forward to it, but we also have a lot of great guests this this week and I'm sure I'll learn a lot as I

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chat with them every morning from 6 to 9 a.m. And

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I'll be talking to you guys

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Probably right after each show every day. I was thinking maybe I'm recording him on my commute back to Belgium

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Although doing all that with a laptop in the car is a

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challenging again

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Something to look at man, maybe I should I maybe I should do one of these while I'm flying home

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All right

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That's it for today. I'm going to leave you see how long I've been at this 13 minutes yet long enough

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I want to get I actually wanted to play the FCC song

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was it said Eric Idyllith?

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think from Monty Python because I don't know if everyone's heard that or not.

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But I'll just have to do that tomorrow.

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So this was my source code for Sunday, August 15, 2004.

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You can reach me at adam at curry.com and my web log address is live.curry.com.

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I'll talk to you tomorrow.