Adding media to blog posts with the Blubrry PowerPress Plugin

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Daniel
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As Cleve, John, and I were preparing for the recent Cincinnati SPJ Podcasting Workshop, I thought it was helpful to put together a quick reference on how I add media files to the blog. There are and have been a number of plug-ins in WordPress that let you do this, but my favorite and the most useful for me has been the Blubrry PowerPress plugin. They obviously have more documentation about their plugin at their website, but here’s the short guide I put together.

Add media to WordPress using PowerPress

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Installing the LAME encoder for Audacity

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Daniel
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Today at the workshop participants used Audacity to edit their audio files recorded using the Zoom H2 Handy Portable Stereo Recorder*.  When we wanted to export the files as mp3, we realized that we were not able to, because the LAME encoder had not been installed on the machines we were using. Follow the instructions at the Audacity website, and you should be good to go.

* The Zoom H2 Handy Portable Stereo Recorder is very nice and probably worthy of a blog post in and of itself. I highly recommend it and have provided an Amazon affiliate link so you can check it out.

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Tiffany interviews Aiesha

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Daniel

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Tiffany Luckey from the Community Press interviews Aiesha Little from Cincinnati Magazine as part of the Cincinnati SPJ Podcasting Workshop at Northern Kentucky University.

Music: Derek K. Miller, “Dodging Buses”

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The Breanna, Pat, and Joe Show

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Daniel

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Participants Breanna Gaddie, Pat Meier, and Joe Wessels put something together on their own during the podcasting workshop.

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What’s for lunch?

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Daniel

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Daniel Johnson, Jr. asks participants what they think we’re having for lunch.

Music: Derek K. Miller, “Dodging Buses”

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Cincinnati Streetcar Debate

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Daniel

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John Schneider and Tom Luken debate the Cincinnati Streetcar issue during the Cincinnati SPJ Podcasting Workshop. Cleve Callison facilitated. Thanks to Joe Wessels for asking questions.

Music: Derek K. Miller, “Dodging Buses”

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Finding music to play on your podcast

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Daniel
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Because of the controversy surrounding the legality of playing licensed music on podcasts, the podcasting community came up with the term “podsafe” to describe music that is specifically licensed for that purpose.

The WikiPedia page for “podsafe” provides a good understanding of the background, benefits to both podcasters and artists, and some helpful resources.

One resource that I’ve used in my own music podcasts is Mevio’s Music Alley, also known as the Podsafe Music Network, or PMN.

Canadian Derek K. Miller is one of my favorite independent artists who posts music on his website specifically for podcasters to use in their podcasts.

In our podcasting workshop, we’ll be using his track “Dodging Buses“.

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Take 2 of Rivers in the Land

Posted on May 7, 2010 by cleve

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Experimentation is a wonderful thing. I’m trying a different way of uploading this mp3 file.

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Sample Grunge Loop

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Daniel
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This is a sample WAV file, a 15-second grunge loop.

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1st podcast test from Cleve: Rivers in the Land

Posted on May 7, 2010 by cleve

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Click the map to hear Rivers in the Land from Ohio Bicentennial Minutes, a 2003 radio series John Hingsbergen and Cleve Callison co-produced for WMUB Public Radio at Miami.

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