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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.