Radio Pro Tip: ifttt + Dropbox
Comments (0) Written by Steve Holstein, InterPrep Publisher & Editor
Dropbox is an invaluable tool … for the InterPrep staff, in my role as a Radio Pro, and in my personal life. One of the many things that makes Dropbox special is the way it works with other services. Here’s one way I’m using Dropbox — along with the website ifttt.com — to save a couple of minutes each day.
An advertiser is paying top-dollar for a live commercial read during my morning show. Because they don’t always hear their ad they have requested a daily aircheck. So I record each day’s live read as it happens then save it in MP3 format to a subfolder in my studio PC’s Dropbox. Here comes the time saving part.
After saving the file to Dropbox I do nothing else — nothing at all. I get back to the show. The magic happens at ifttt.com, where I’ve set up a task to check the Dropbox subfolder every 15 minutes for a new file. Once ifttt.com finds one it knows to email it to my sales rep automatically.
And that’s it.
ifttt.com works magic with a number of services, including Twitter, Gmail, Facebook and Evernote. With some trial-and-error ifttt.com can help you, too.
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