Some folks reported that the new episodes weren’t showing up in iTunes. This may be to do with them all being on Mixcloud now, rather than on my own website.
I’ve grabbed a new RSS feed from Mixcloud using this tool someone set up, and I’ve refreshed the information on iTunes. It said it would take 24 hours to refresh in the iTunes Store, so here’s hoping.
In the meantime, you can listen and download directly on Mixcloud.
As described before, the new script I have allows me to generate the podcast with a minimum of manual editing. I take the recording, top and tail it, put the files in the right place, and run the script. It works great as you can hear here, and I wanted to test it before leaving for work this morning.
I used Audacity and my laptop‘s built-in microphone to record a quick 2-minute chat, divided into sections. The quality wasn’t great due to the mic, but it was enough for the test. Then I saved exported the WAVs in the right place, and ran the script. Quick as a flash it created a complete podcast episode, with intro music, graphics and everything. I uploaded it and dashed out the door, leaving Mixcloud to post to Twitter and Facebook.
When I got to work I saw that I had an email from Mixcloud.
Subject: Short upload disabled
Time: 08:48
For licensing reasons we don’t host individual tracks (even if it’s your own track), so unfortunately we’ve had to disable your short upload titled “Coiled Episode Episode 15a: Quick Script Test”.
If you feel this is in error, please get in touch at http://support.mixcloud.com.
All the best,
Mixcloud Team
Interesting. I can see why they did this. I sent a support message to see if it can be reinstated. We’ll see.
It was a successful test anyway. Here’s the timeline:
From creation to rejection in 21 minutes! What a fascinating modern world we live in.
Makerbase is a database of digital projects like apps, websites or artworks, and the makers who create them.
Anyone can edit Makerbase.
I’ve added The Coiled Spring to Makerbase here. If you want to go in and add yourself as a guest/co-creator, go right ahead. I’ve added a couple of people already.