A Podcasting Blog from Podcasting Tools - Daily Podcasting News and Information for Podcasters and Listeners.Daily Podcasting Blog and news related to podcasting, RSS, podcast news and aggregation. Information related to podcasts are added on a daily business and cover the gamut, from new podcast product announcements, podcast directories, marketing for podcasters and much, much more.Podcast Basics- April 30, 2007 Podcasting, in its simplest form, is audio that can be downloaded to a computer or portable media player and listened to at a later time. There are two major components of a podcast, the audio file and the RSS file. Most podcast audio segments are compressed MP3 files. podcast basicshttp://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm#794 iPod Ban- April 30, 2007 Digital media players are being targeted by schools as potential cheating devices used by students. According to the article here, banning the players might be somewhat of a national trend even though using the devices to cheat is nothing new. The article mentions at the end that Duke University in North Carolina distributed iPods as part of the Duke Digital Initiative program. There are 'iPod office hours' where students can have their questions answered about how they can use their iPod as...http://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm#793 Amazon to Sell Unprotected Music Files- April 26, 2007 Sources in the London Times say Amazon has approached all the major labels "in the past fortnight" and stated its desire to launch an online music store by May. The Times said the store would offer "unprotected MP3s." complete articlehttp://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm#792 Easy Software for Podcasters- April 24, 2007 If you are looking for software to handle audio recording and editing, look no further! Give RecordForAll a try. It is super easy to use and is really pretty slick. Features allow for: audio importing audio recording built-in noise filtering easy editing layering of sounds volume scaling synchronize and sequence clips effortless publishing A free RecordForAll trial version is available for download.http://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm#791 Where To Locate PodSafe Music- April 21, 2007 Nothing really polishes a podcast more than background music or theme music. In the music world, these music segments are referred to as intros and extros. While many enjoy streaming Internet Audio and recording songs they like over the Internet, these songs cannot legally be used in a podcast. Where to Locate Podsafe Musichttp://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm#790 Internet Radio is Struggling Against Fees- April 20, 2007 A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board has denied a request from the NPR and a number of other webcasters to reconsider a March ruling that would force Internet radio services to pay crippling royalties. The ruling is a huge blow to online broadcasters, and the new royalty structure could knock a large number of them off the 'Net entirely'. complete articlehttp://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm#789 iTunes Movies Dropping Off - Hold the Video- April 19, 2007 New figures released by Apple suggest that demand for its iTunes movie download offerings is fading. Initial demand for downloaded movies from iTunes was strong, with Apple saying 1.3 million films were downloaded by 2 February of this year. But new figures show that, almost three months afterwards, only around 700,000 additional films have been sold. complete articlehttp://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm#788 Imus Podcast- April 18, 2007 I wonder how popular a podcast by Don Imus would be The internet airwaves are not controlled or regulated. Satelite radio facing a merger are gun-shy to touch a topic that would sure to bring more controversy. Could podcasting be a solution for Don Imushttp://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm#787 Blogger and Podcaster Magazine- April 17, 2007 A new magazine Blogger and Podcaster for "aspiring new media titans" has been launched.http://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm#785 Corporate Podcasting Summit- April 17, 2007 Presentations from the European Corporate Podcasting Summit have been posted.http://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm#786 |