Want to check up on the competition? Hear what your favorite morning show across the country is doing? Stereolizer turns your iPad into a 1980s stereo, complete with twitching VU-needles, a big volume knob and a tape deck, so you can pirate your music the old-fashioned way. Stereolizer tunes into internet radio stations searchable by name or country. You can also spin the dial to find radio streams, and you get authentic-sounding fake radio interference, just as you would with a real radio. Press Record on the tape deck to capture audio for later, and then write on the tape to remember what you recorded. Stereolizer page.
Here’s a hilarious fake radio promo (.mp3) that’s been hitting email inboxes the last couple of weeks. Anyone know the source?
Here’s a good article on the pros and cons of the most common digital audio formats.
Blog Talk Radio provides audio services for bloggers/podcasters and has recently launched Cinch, a way for podcasters to record a show or interview over their cell phone. I gave it a try, and could see Cinch being used by traditional broadcasters who might need a way to record an instantly-available audio file when all they have is their cell.
Here’s how it works: You call Cinch (646-200-0000) and, at the beep, start recording your remote break, interview, whatever. Back in the studio, or at home, you fire up your web browser and enter the URL ‘cinch.blogtalkradio.com/5551234567′, replacing 5551234567 with your phone number. Up pops a web page with an .mp3 that can be downloaded and used in any number of ways.
Some time ago I suggested divShare for hosting and streaming your audio files. The service is free (with ads) and offers an embedded player, perfect for your best-of bits and podcasts. Well, I’ve just read that divShare is for sale. I’ll be honest, I haven’t been using divShare for my own show audio for some time. For starters, the website was so hungry for money it began using pop-up ads. Who the hell still uses those? I also discovered that it’s streams are sometimes choppy. And while this may seem nit-picky, their embedded player is ugly.
So what have I been doing for audio hosting? Well, I’m exploring the idea of hosting my show audio myself, using a simple Flash player that I found on the web. (I can do that since I have gobs of server space here at InterPrep.com.) But I’ve also been using Box.net off an on. You can read Box.net post here. It’s proven to be a reliable service with what a appears to be a good business model (not just hosting files in exchange for pop-up ads).
In the meantime, it looks like divShare users would be wise to be sure their files are backed up elsewhere, just in case.
I wrote a post earlier this year about divShare, which offers a good place to store and share your archived show audio. Currently I’m taking a second look at Box.net and its Box Widget feature.
The Box Widget is basically a slick looking way to display the contents of a folder in a small Flash window on your web page. Say you have a folder on Box.net where you keep all your parody songs and you want those song files displayed on your website. With the Box Widget, anything you drop into that folder on Box.net automatically shows up in the widget on your page.
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