Radio Days
As some of you know, my wife’s been away traveling for the past 5 weeks, though she’s currently driving (my car) back across the country, and I’ll be flying out to meet her shortly, after which we’ll drive around a bit, checking out the southwest. In the meantime, I’ve got way too much free time on my hands, so I’ve been killing time catching up on various things, including ripping a bunch of old CDs that have been gathering dust on the shelves.
I also found a bunch of my old tapes of IthaSka, the ska radio show I did for over 3 years back in the mid-90s. Anyway, the whole thing made me sorta nostalgic, and I wondered if there was now easy software for creating radio show-like podcasts. I’m still testing out a few different products, but there definitely are a few things out there that basically let you create your own radio program. So, here’s my first attempt.
I warn you, that this will probably only interest the 3 or 4 co-dj’s I had over the years, or maybe possibly if you happen to like ska/rocksteady music. It’s not very polished, and partly that’s because I’m really not that good at this stuff, and partly it’s because I’m still figuring out how the software works, but if you want to take a listen go ahead:
The player (from Castfire, which is pretty cool) has a download option as well, and if I actually decide to do this more regularly, then I’ll probably set up a podcast RSS feed.
I have to say that it was actually pretty easy to do this once I got it working and it was tremendous fun to be doing a radio show (sorta) again. But, it was a bit lonely. The best part of doing the radio show was basically getting to hang out with folks like Alvaro, Daisy, Scott and John (and a few other guests and substitutes) over the years while listening to great music and talking about the music and whatever else was going on in our lives. I never really enjoyed the shows when I was stuck alone at the station. It would be a blast if I can figure out ways to pipe in co-dj’s as well. There are definitely ways to do it via Skype, but it looks somewhat complicated. Anyway, it was fun (and really not very time-consuming, considering the software takes care of most stuff), so I’m hopeful that maybe I’ll try to do it again, but there’s probably a better than even chance that this is it. So… for now… enjoy.
balleyne on November 18th, 2008
Cool!