August 31st, 2007
An Idea to post mp3s of recorded phone calls with your artists
So I just made a post over at the Suburban Home site where I posted mp3s of snippets of a conversation, I had with Jon Snodgrass of Drag the River/Armchair Martian. I recently figured out a pretty easy way to record phone conversations and can post the recordings as mp3s. I thought it might be a cool way to offer visitors of our site interesting things to listen to about our acts and about our label.
I was curious your thoughts and feedback on this. I think that it will be a neat way for me to discuss new signings, recordings, tours, and even fun stuff like what bands our acts are listening to and our artists’ interests.
I know what you are thinking, why not just do a podcast? Well, to be honest, I don’t have the time to produce a half hour or hour episode and feel that if I can offer short, but sweet conversations with interesting people, there might be some people who look forward to future converstions.
Please check out the original post where Jon Snodgrass discusses the upcoming Armchair Martian Tour, the final Drag the River album, Recording solo material, and a few bands he likes.
Jon Snodgrass discusses Armchair Martian tour, New Drag the River album, Solo Material and Pizza Parties [Suburban Home]
Written by Virgil Dickerson
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On August 31st, 2007 at 9:07 am
Sean-Michael Dore said:
I don’t think it’s a bad idea at all. I think the presentation of it is really important though. Maybe make a little one MP3 streaming player… this isn’t really something people want to download, but it is something that fans (and curious folks) will check out.
On August 31st, 2007 at 9:31 am
Virgil Dickerson said:
I was thinking about that, kind of like how issue oriented has a streaming player where you can give listens with the click of a mouse. thanks for the suggestion. I will work on that
On August 31st, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Bruce Houghton said:
Great idea in part for its simplicty. But tag a stock intro and a piece of music at the end from the and you really do have a podcast.
What are you using to do the recordings?
On August 31st, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Virgil Dickerson said:
I starting subsribing to 2recall.com which allows you to call a 1-800 number from any phone, dial your own member code, and then it will record any phone call you make and save the files online as .wav files. I then edit using Audacity and then comvert to mp3 with Itunes. It sounds like more work than it really is though.
On August 31st, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Virgil Dickerson said:
one more thing, I forgot to do it with this post, but I was planning on inviting any potential podcasters to use any of our conversations in their podcasts.
On August 31st, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Bill said:
This is fantastic. We should also potentially do this with people in the biz… who would the readers like to see a “fireside chat” with?
On August 31st, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Bill said:
I’m also thinking if we add RSS to this .mp3 it would be a podcast.
On September 2nd, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Virgil Dickerson said:
if you subsribe to our feed in Itunes, all the mp3s we post will post like they do for other podcasts. I was thinking it would be cool to chat with people in the industry for sure and post it here.
As long as we keep them short and sweet, it could be cool.
On November 30th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Dionyssios said:
Interesting…
On December 21st, 2007 at 6:46 am
Panagiotis said:
Cool…
On December 25th, 2007 at 1:50 am
Aniketos said:
Nice
On December 29th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Thanasis said:
Cool.
On December 31st, 2007 at 1:04 am
Tasos said:
Interesting…
On January 2nd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Aniketos said:
interesting
On January 3rd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Sergios said:
Interesting…
On January 9th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Nicolaon said:
interesting
On January 31st, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Aiakos said:
Sorry :(
On February 5th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Vassilios said:
Cool…
On February 6th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Efstratios said:
Nice…
On February 8th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Georgios said:
Nice
On February 8th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Martinos said:
Nice…
On February 9th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Vasilis said:
Nice