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Daily source code for April 7th,
2005.

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A top of the hour, I'm gonna go
home, and then it's Adam Curry.

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You're DJ, has only just begun.

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It was $16 million worth of
airplane strapped in my ass.

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And the next generation radio
content in my ears.

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I like to think I'm flying into
the future.

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Hey everybody, welcome to the
Daily Source Code.

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Today's Thursday the 7th.

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Oh my goodness, okay, a brand
new form of Daily Source Code.

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So today we've done this once
before.

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We've done it in Miami.

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I'm testing out some data
software.

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Let me just call it the Cas
Blaster for now.

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This is going to be the
easy-to-record podcast software.

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Okay, oh my goodness.

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It's been a while since I've
been messing around with all the
faders and all that stuff and
all the software.

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I've been working with a
developer for the past couple of
weeks on creating a piece of
software that runs on a window.

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It's a computer which will
enable anyone to basically get a
podcast recorded very, very
simply.

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And of course, there's lots of
programs out there that record
your microphone and there's lots
of programs that can mix.

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But to really make it easy, I
guess that's all interface
stuff, right?

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So I figured today would be the
day that I tried the second test
of this series.

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The second test of this, of
using the Windows tablet.

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I'm actually using the pen now
to control the software,
although it works perfectly well
with the mouse.

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But what the hair, right?

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The sound, of course, will not
be what you're used to hearing
from the source code because I'm
not running this through my sure
SM7.

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Not running it through any
processing, no compressors, any
of that.

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This is purely a laptop and a
headset.

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And the headset is actually let
me just see.

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It's an all-tech lancing.

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And it doesn't have the best of
all sound quality because of
course it's all about the sound
card and the preamp and all that
stuff.

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But it does the job okay.

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And the software is set up in a
way that is just absolutely
phenomenal.

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It's really what I, as a radio
guy, want to have because it
has, and of course I'm providing
a, like a semi screenshot along
with the show notes.

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You can take a look at this.

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It has a row of what I'd call
cart decks, which are basically
jingles.

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You can see it's one, two, three
for so it's 10 slots for
jingles.

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And then it has four slots for
songs.

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Again, this is all beta
software, so it could be
crapping out, it could sound, it
could basically sound shitty.

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It has meters on it, so you can
keep the levels kind of in
check.

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Basically, you want the two view
meters to be in the yellow and
they can hit the red.

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In fact, on this meter, I'm
seeing now you can hit the red
almost all the way because when
you, when you spike the meters
to the right, then you're
basically at zero db, which
would be the maximum, it
shouldn't be any more than that.

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Also, no reverb or any effects
like that, which apparently
seems to be very tough to do in
windows, at least while you're
recording something on the fly.

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But, you know, the whole setup
is, it's, I gotta say, it's
sweet, got three faders here,
one for the headphones, which,

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Oh man, okay, so I don't know
how to integrate Skype yet, so
I'm not gonna, oh, I actually
should have answered that call,
that was pretty stupid.

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I bet you'll work too, what
maybe it won't.

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So that's something I gotta
check out, that's for another
beta test.

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It has a mic fader, which you
basically set once, so that
you're not modulating in the
red, then it has a little talk
button, which you turn off, I
just did that there.

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And then it has an auto button,
well, it actually has another
fader for a player, which means
anything you play from either
the cart decks or from the song
decks.

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If you aren't comfortable with
fading stuff up and down, so for
instance, let me just give an
example with the rock money-off
opener there.

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So now I'm basically sliding
that fader down and then I slide
it back up like that.

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Right, so I'm doing that
manually, it has an automatic
feature, so if I hit that, it'll
just bring down the level of
whatever's playing to basically
match your voice or your voice
can talk over that.

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And when you release it, it
should automatically flow back
up.

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Okay, first bug determined, it
doesn't fade back automatically.

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Let me try that again, so I've
got it up about the same, just
grab the fader there.

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This particular instance, the
pen is not doing a good job, let
me just grab the mouse, okay.

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So now it's at equal level with
a microphone and I hit the auto
button and it just fades it down
nice and smoothly so you can
talk over it.

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So that works well, only when I
release that, it should go back
to the same spot, and it's not
doing that, okay, so that's
something we got to work on.

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Okay, so I can just stop that,
that's pretty cool because
everything immediately queues
up, so it can be restarted, so
you don't have to rewind any
players or anything.

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So I have a couple other jingles
that I just and sweepers that I
just loaded in here.

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This is one that was sent to me
the other day.

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Hi, this is Rachel from
audiocollective.net.

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If you're listening to Adam
Curry on the daily source code.

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The only thing this beta
software doesn't do is light my
spliff, that's too bad.

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It has a pause button, but I'm
afraid to use it because I don't
think that's implemented yet.

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Okay, now to the player, the
player windows, let me see, I
just put a couple of things in
here, just to give you some
examples.

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Let me kick this one in for you.

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I think this is actually a
mashup I might have played
before, but we'll just roll this
one out for you right now.

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We roll rock and roll you on the
on the on the on the on the on
the daily source code.

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[ Music ]

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We're singing

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We're singing

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We're singing

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Okay

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Hey, that's interesting

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All right, learn something new
here

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By the way, you're just along
for the ride beta testing with
me, I guess

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So under each of the song
players

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It has a little progress bar
that shows you how far it's
playing

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Now I don't know if that MP3

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Just had more like

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Silence at the end of it

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But let's see

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Because I basically it didn't
look like it was all the way at
the end

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So let me drag the

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The progress bar to kind of

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Where it's stopped there

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Oh my second now, I'm just going
on my pen

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It's not wanting to react very
well

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So if I play it from here

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Okay

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Well that's another thing that
has to be fixed

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So you can't actually pause it

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You can't actually queue it up
to a spot where you want it to
be

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Okay, we've got to improve that

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So I hope you're understanding

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All the crap that I'm talking
about here

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Because basically the whole
point of this is to

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Is to have an application that

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95% of the world can use

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Which means it has to run on
windows

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And that is all encompassing

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You put your jingles

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Or your little bit you want to
play

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Stuff that you need to see the
progress bar on to see how far
it is

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Of course why that didn't work
out in that case

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I'm not quite sure

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You should be able to queue it
up

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When started from that spot that
didn't work

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So that's something we got to
change

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So actually I hope someone's
writing this down

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So we can make these
improvements

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What's really nice is there's

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In the in the recorder portion
of the of the interface

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The record button shows you
exactly how long

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Been recording so that's 11
minutes right now

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Okay, so that's kind of screw up
the idea I had

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Because I have a piece of the

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Lissivia's Bitties the latest
bitty cast that was from

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Or was that yesterday's bitty
cast the six

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And they played a song

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Just at the end of the show,
which was written by

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Bitty Amanda Monaco I believe

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So now I'm going to have to fast
forward to it

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So let me see

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So I can definitely drag

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There's the girls

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So let me drag the player over

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That works fine actually

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Okay, let me

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Back to her house and she was so
cute

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So I'll go in the back to see

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Okay, we're just a little bit
more

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I will be better soon

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For girls

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Okay, okay, here it is, let me
just

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Okay, so that's something we got
to fix

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Okay

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Got to be able to cue stuff up
in the middle of a song

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I'm gonna play a song in Amanda
wrote when she first met Andre

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Okay, listen to this song. It's
a beautiful song

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Thank you

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It's a sweetest thing ever

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I've been wine, I've been dying

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For so many a time

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[ Music ]

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He won't be just one and the
same

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Oh man, the biddies, they sing
so beautiful

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Don't you agree

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Just give me goosebumps

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Okay, so that won't work
perfectly

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It ended the player progress bar

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Showed the very ending

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So I guess the wheel rocky thing
was just a bogus MP3

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It's amazing

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Because I've been working with
this developer as I said for a
couple of weeks

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And you think you've got
everything right

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And then you go and test it and
it's all the stuff pops up

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Oh man, no I need that

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I guess it only really works
when you're podcasting

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I'm really trying to figure this
stuff out

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So let me just fire off another
jingle there

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Thanks to Tom Schooting

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He's the guy that puts on my old
radio shows online

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The Korean vendingles shows that
I used to do it radio Veronica

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He does that from Australia

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I sent him that whole box of
cassettes when we moved

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And he's just been putting stuff
up online

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Relentlessly, it's been great

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He sent me all these jingles
that I guess he found in some

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On some cassettes somewhere

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We talked a while ago about Big
Bad Al

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I think I was weeks ago

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Kind of like the daddy over the
radio

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The guy who mentored me and a
lot of other guys

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That's what I actually played at
the very beginning of the show

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Let's listen to him again there

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A top of the hour I'm gonna go
home

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And then it's Adam Curry

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I use that one so often

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Of course now it sounds kind of
shitty because it's coming off
of a cassette

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16 minutes 23 seconds into this

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This is so far going pretty well

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What's nice about the program as
I said it's supposed to be all
encompassing

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When you stop recording, it'll
obviously stop recording

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Then you hit save and then it
pops up a window that asks you
for some basic information

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What does that information?

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Well, of course, it's the ID3
tags, right?

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And then you save it and it's
done

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It's already recorded MP3

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It's compressed with a standard
setting

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We're using the same setting I
always use on the daily source
code

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Which after months of fooling
around with bit rates and sample
rates

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We kind of figured this is the
one that works the best

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So we simplified all that

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These of course I guess could
eventually all be advanced
options

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If you really want to set that

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But after that

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There will of course be an
upload piece

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And I've been thinking about all
these tools that are coming
online

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And I mean it's like there are
so many different recorder
packages out there

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There's a big benefit to having
an interface like the one that
I'm using right now

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Because it's really set for
podcast

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And at least for a particular
type of podcast

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There's more I'd love to have
Skype integrated into this

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So if you want to just call
someone on Skype it just records
that

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Or maybe you could even set a
level on that

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Something we got to think about
as well

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But then the upload to the
server where you're hosting it

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I think that should just be
using the meta weblog API

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Which I believe does in closures

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Not 100% sure but I think it
does

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Because then basically it'll
create a blog post

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And you could use that with any
weblogging software

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You could use it with any
podcast hosting service

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And even though I definitely
want to

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Rule the world global world
domination

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Anything we can do with
podcasting

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It seems like that's the
smartest way to go

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Because there's going to be lots
of different programs

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To record and to upload

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And it just takes away all the
hassle of trying to figure out

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How do I get it up there?

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How do I FTP then create the RSS
feed?

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I think it's some programs that
I've seen out there

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Create an RSS feed for you

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And then it'll upload that as
well

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But I think that it seems if we
just follow the path

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The blogging software has gone

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There's lots of different
applications

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That are basically just using
the meta weblog API

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To talk to in this case I use a

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Manila server for my weblog

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And I've used radio user land

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Through the meta weblog API

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And currently I use Mars Edit

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Which is made by

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I think Brent does that

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Or does net news wire of course
I do that on the Mac

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And then it makes a lot of sense

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Because then instead of trying
to compete on all these weird
levels

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You just compete on the
interface

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Whatever interface works best
for you

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And you could switch back and
forth between

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Different programs

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Perhaps depending on what type
of podcast you're doing

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So it's kind of a bummer that as
I said

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I can't queue up some of these
songs

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Believe me by the next beta

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I'm sure I will be able to

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I found this show which is

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It might be an existing radio
program

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But probably only on AM

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But it's a financial podcast

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The following is a presentation
of the Tiger Financial News
Network

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I guess

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I guess it is from a network

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The Tom O'Brien show

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He'll just scan forward

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What you hear?

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He'll show

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Pieces of eight

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What you talk about is
principles

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And whether you agree

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That's using the auto ducking
feature there

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Automatically lowering that
anyway

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Okay, so that's the Tom O'Brien
show

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Podcasts I'm now subscribed to

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It does sound like it's coming
from a

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From a regular radio program

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Okay

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Well, I guess we've pretty much
done everything we can

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For this particular test

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There's one very important thing

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I still have to wait

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Hold on a second before I get to
that

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Let me just unplug the power
cord

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Let me go mobile here for a sec

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We walk over to the Mac

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Where I have my other show notes

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Usually

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Let me just check and make sure
I'm not missing anything

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Using the headset is kind of
cool though

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I hope it sounds reasonably okay

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No, the only thing I had in
there

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Was the Bitties thing

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Okay, so we've pretty much

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Everything I want to do for this
beta test

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A little bit shorter source code

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The normal but

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I hit all the things I wanted to
hit

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Except for

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The fact that I would like to
wish

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My beautiful wife

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My bride of almost 18 years

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The happiest birthday

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You could ever imagine

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Because it's her birthday today

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Happy birthday baby

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I love you

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Alrighty

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So

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Thank you very much for

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Bearing with me on this test

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As I said, I'll be providing

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At least a partial screenshot

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Of the software in the show
notes

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So you can see

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Kind of get a visual
representation

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Of what I was talking about

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We walked through the interface

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And you'll be able to comment on
that

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Email at amercurry.com

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Or of course on the weblog
www.curry.com

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The latest show

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The podcast feed and the
archives

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All on dailysourcecode.com

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Tomorrow I'll be back

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And we'll see if we can improve
on this

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Or maybe even get some effects
going

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I don't know

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It's kind of a work and progress

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And I'm really enjoying it

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A better way to bait a test
podcast

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Offer with on a podcast

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Take care everybody

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I'll see you tomorrow

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Bye bye