Podcast Method

Dan talks about download tracking with podtrac and libsyn, other tools like Showbot and the topics engine, recording screencasts, the new Audio Hijack, fair use in podcasting, patreon instead of sponsors, and more.

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• Libsyn - Podcast Hosting Services
  
• Podtrac - Premium Online Shows and Audiences
  
• 5by5 Showbot
  
• The Podcast Method
  
• Podcast Method Topic Suggestions - Jackal Suggestion Machine
  
• Meet the Command Line – Pluralsight Training
  
• Amazon.com: Rode Podcaster USB Dynamic Microphone: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Rode Podcaster Booming Kit: Podcaster, PSA1 Arm, and PSM1 shock mount: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: DBX 286s Microphone Pre-amp Processor: Musical Instruments
  
• Call Recorder for Skype - The Skype Audio/Video HD Call Recording Solution for Mac - Ecamm Network
  
• Amazon.com: Mackie Onyx Blackjack 2x2 USB Recording Interface: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Mackie Onyx 1220i FireWire Production Mixer: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Mackie Onyx 820i 8-channel Premium FireWire Recording Mixer: Musical Instruments
  
• Universal Audio Apollo DUO Core with Thunderbolt Card APDTBD B&H
  
• Amazon.com: Avid 99006518500 Mbox Pro Interface with Pro Tools 10 Recording System: Musical Instruments
  
• 5by5 | The Ihnatko Almanac
  
• Fair use - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• 5by5 | 5by5 at the Movies #1: Goodfellas
  
• 5by5 | 5by5 at the Movies #3: A Slight Burglary: Glengarry Glen Ross
  
• Rogue Amoeba | Audio Hijack: Record Any Audio On Mac OS X
  
• Support Dan Benjamin creating Podcasts and videos
  

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Links:

• VB-Audio Virtual Apps — VB-CABLE is a virtual audio device working as virtual audio cable. All audio signals coming in the CABLE input is transported to the CABLE output. Then It becomes simple to make computer audio recording or to connect a player application to a recorder one.
• Sound recording tools: Total Recorder - captures any audio from the Internet, records audio from CD, microphone, line-in, converts any sound formats to WAVE and MP3 — You can record streaming audio, Mic input, or Line-in input from external devices connected to your PC. The resulting files are saved on your computer's hard-drive.
• Rogue Amoeba | Audio Hijack: Record Any Audio on MacOS — Record any application's audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more. Save audio from hardware devices like microphones and mixers as well. You can even record all the audio heard on your Mac at once! If you can hear it, Audio Hijack can record it.
• Rogue Amoeba | Loopback: Cable-Free Audio Routing — It's easy to pass audio between applications on your Mac, with the power of Loopback. Create virtual audio devices to take the sound from apps and audio input devices, then pass it to any audio processing software. With an easy-to-use wire-based interface, Loopback gives you the power of a high-end studio mixing board, right inside your computer!
• Rogue Amoeba | SoundSource: A Superior Sound Control — Control audio on a per-app basis, adjusting the volume and output device for individual apps. Apply an equalizer and other audio effects to any audio on your Mac. Even adjust your Mac's audio device settings and levels instantly, from anywhere. It's all possible right from your menu bar, with SoundSource.
• Public media found its answer to Spotify in Pocket Casts - The Verge — BBC Studios and Pocket Casts are announcing today that the British company is investing in the American podcast player. The decision comes at a time when multiple podcast apps, most notably Spotify, are committing themselves to a strategy of exclusive shows designed to build loyalty to their platform. Pocket Casts is instead committed to podcasting’s open ecosystem of freely available RSS feeds, CEO Owen Grover says.
• Many podcast episodes won’t play in web browsers later this year — If your podcast host isn’t hosting its audio on a secure server (that uses https:// at the beginning) then be aware that any embedded audio player will fail in October this year: Google Chrome will block non-HTTPS audio in embedded players once Chrome gets to v86.
• What Podcast Sellers Say Is Needed To Achieve $2 Billion In Podcast Ad Revenue - Westwood One — Overall, while the buy side and sell side are in general agreement on the miserable state of podcast measurement, sellers are a bit more positive. Only 5% of brands and agencies rate podcast measurement and attribution as “excellent.” 10% of sellers indicated the current state to be “excellent.”
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