Re: [lp-ca-on] Podcast for our Mumble meetings?

[Blaise Alleyne]

On 30/05/16 07:06 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> On Monday, May 30 2016, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> 
>> Hi all: We're building up a nice collection of audio files from our
>> Mumble meetings. Is there any interest in creating a podcast from them?
> 
> I guess so, yeah.  And thanks for bringing this topic to our attention,
> Bob. [...]
> 
>> http://sobac.com/LUGs/LibrePlanetOntario/
>>
>> Even if such a podcast doesn't have wide appeal, it would be useful to
>> other LibrePlanet Ontario members.  And just the exercise of creating
>> a podcast would be useful experience.
> 
> Agreed.
> 

+1

At the very least, it'd make it a little easier for people to keep up with the
meetings if they can't attend.


>> [...] I don't think we need to support non-free audio formats, and I'd
>> rather not depend on Archive.org for hosting (they've taken down some
>> video I created for OpenDataDay).
> 
> Totally agreed about not support non-free audio formats.
> 

I'm not opposed to making the audio available in formats that can be created
with and listen to with free software, but may be patent-encumbered (e.g. MP3,
like the Free as in Freedom podcast does). But, I think with our crowd, that
wouldn't be necessary.


>> I looked (very!) briefly for software that can take a collection of
>> audio files and generate an Atom/RSS feed out of them, but didn't find
>> anything that would work. Does anyone know of something?
> 
> Well, MediaGoblin comes to mind...  Aside from that, I guess any simple
> WordPress might be able to handle this, right?
> 

Yes to both as options.

Mediagoblin is a bit more complicated to host, and actually not sure off the top
of my head whether it presently makes it easy to grab a podcast feed (vs just a
feed of everything that gets uploaded).

WordPress I think can be great for a simple podcast (and easy to get a separate
RSS/Atom feed from other posts), perhaps with a plugin like:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/seriously-simple-podcasting/

WordPress could make more sense if we were using that for our website too.
Mediagoblin could make sense if we were also using that to host other
photos/video from events? *shrugs*

For *just* the podcast as a standalone though, might be worth looking for
simpler options. Hosting these applications makes sense to me if we're using
them for other things too. *shrugs*

Sergio's server makes sense to me, since that's what we already decided to
manage the domain/website. One of my servers could be an option though if 
needed.


>> If we do create a podcast it would be nice to have some bumper music
>> as an intro and an outro. Does anyone know where we could get some
>> original Free Culture music? ;-)
> 

haha, well, thanks for asking, Bob! I just released three new CC BY-SA
recordings over the weekend!

http://blaise.ca/music/ (the first three are the new ones)

I'm still in the process of collecting, uploading, and making available stems
from the multitracks as "source" files, but happy to prioritize anything in
particular if we think it might be useful for a podcast, e.g. stripping vocals
to get an instrumental section of one of the songs or something.


Off the top of my head, some things that could work for brief instrumental 
intros...

- ~4:09 (sans vocals) or 5:06 of Anaximander
http://blaise.ca/music/songs/anaximander

- 3:15 of Canvases (sans vocals) for something a bit more energetic
http://blaise.ca/music/songs/canvases

- 4:17 of One Look (sans vocals), an older home recording but may not be bad
http://blaise.ca/music/songs/one-look

Not sure that I'd have time to create something new, but adapting something I've
already recorded would be easy. I'm working on recording other original tunes as
well, for later in 2016 / into 2017.


Also, besides me, Brad Turquotte (Brad Sucks) is an Ontario-based (Ottawa) CC
BY-SA artist (not sure that he's into free software though).
http://www.bradsucks.net/

Though, his website seems to only have song previews available gratis now rather
than full downloads... I guess I'm assuming the purchased downloads are still CC
BY-SA. (His already released stuff would be CC BY-SA, since it isn't revocable.)

Or Josh Woodward, while not having an Ontario or free software connection, has
hundreds of CC BY songs online, with instrumental MP3s for almost all of his
tunes I think.

https://www.joshwoodward.com/