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By O-Dub 
When I originally created a “how-to guide to audioblogging,” it was largely reflective of my own experiences of tinkering with different audio options. Over the years though, I’ve upgraded that system and it made sense to talk a little about that, both to share with all ya’ll as well as get a sense of what’s working for you.
My man Brendan wrote a very detailed guide of his own that I’m in the process (B, really, I’m getting there!) of combining with my own experiences but here’s the skinny version before that’s done.
If you’re just [...]
Continue reading UPGRADING THE DIGITIZING SYSTEM
By O-Dub 
For the high-end consumer, Angelis Labor is offering a 4-armed turntable for $64,000. It was displayed at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show. The arms are made at the same factory as some Ferrari parts.
How well it actually plays is the true $64,000 question.
You can read more here.
By O-Dub 
Folks will notice I’ve added a new media player to the site – I haven’t gotten rid of the old way, you can still “click” and download songs – but instead, I added the Yahoo Media Player on top of the existing system, just to see how it plays out. The advantage to this is that it allows a continuous play of all the songs on the homepage via the player (though it won’t do much for those who’d rather download).
So far, I find it unobtrusive and it adds a degree of usability that hasn’t [...]
Continue reading TESTING OUT A NEW MEDIA PLAYER
By O-Dub 
After what seemed like a great beginning, I decided to stop using Peel. The main reason was that it stopped identifying all the songs that were posted even though I could discern no difference in how they were listed in a post. That kind of inconsistency pretty much negates the main reason you would use a program like Peel to begin with: consistency and reliability.
The other thing too: Peel won’t work for any MP3 site that doesn’t host its MP3s directly which means people using any kind of 3rd party storage site (which is many sites) [...]
Continue reading Unpeeled
By O-Dub
Caught this off of Stereogum: an MP3-reading software program (for Macs only) called Peel. (PC people, look below).
The interface is very, very simple: put in your favorite MP3 blog URls and its iTunes-styled window will automatically list (and download if you so chose) all the available MP3s for each site. I played around with this tonight and was pretty impressed at the simplicity and ease of the program. The fact that you instantly see what new songs have been listed, plus stream a full-length preview (or DL) is very intuitive as are most of the other features [...]
Continue reading For the Listener: Next Level Audiobloggery
By O-Dub  
…This…is a remix.
Based on numerous comments as well as corrections on other sites, I’m remixing this guide so I don’t have to post a dozen updates as postscripts.
CONTINUE READING…
With all due respect to the NY Times, their recent story on computer-compatible turntables makes the process seem far more expensive and/or complicated than it really is.
I address some of the basics on digitizing in my “How to Start an Audioblog Guide” but I decided to write something down that’d be more detailed.
Keep in mind: this guide is [...]
Continue reading The Soul-Sides.com Guide to Turntables For Digitizing Vinyl REVISED!
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