Want MP3 Podcasts without much work, then why not try using the Marantz PMD-620, which records straight to MP3, no conversions necessary. this has been a common problem with podcasts, wav files are too large yet are the easiest ones to edit for they contain very detailed sound information. Mp3′s however are easier to transport and are smaller in file size thus more economical for all to use. The PMD620 has been around for quite sometime and it has been used by many a podcasters. Marantz is considered to be one of the best producer’s of audio equipment along with their other powerful digital recorders they have managed to keep their edge with their robust design and More →

Being one of the many contenders for podcasts, Microsoft’s Zune should be a target for your podcasts as well as the all-present iPod. The Zune is a portable digital music player that has an added wireless feature with a whopping 80 GB or memory with a specific and continuously expanding market as the iPod. With the Zune selling as of latest figures, over a million units, the market is truly an enticing target for your podcasts should you want to expand your audience. There are some pre-requisites to setting up Zune to market your podcasts More →

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AAC used to be a proprietary format restricted for use on Apple’s digital players and was designed to take over the rule of the lowly MP3. First it captured audio better and had better sound filtering capabilities over the mp3 standard. It was a bit over on the file size for very few changes can be made to the customization aspect but what it lacked in control, it sure made up for in quality of the audio it encoded. It also paved the way to full digital enhancement of audio that needed little user input making it easier to use and thus harder to mess up with. Being more of a child of the mp3 format, it incorporated better More →

The conversion process to either MP3 or AAC has become so commonplace and easy with today’s media player software like, Apple’s iTunes (which surprisingly offers conversion to both formats). Though easy and better by many aspects, AAC still plays second best to MP3′s when it comes to popularity for MP3′s have been around as long as the earliest digital media players such as the Rio PMP300 which started the portable digital revolution. You no longer needed the bulky Walkman’s with cassette tapes More →

The version was released to address some of the errors/bugs found with the previous release which was 1.2.6 which reached stable release status. Addressing issues such as cross-platform bugs that had muting/soloing that resulted in incorrect channel results in exported stereo files, the missing progress bar in NyQuist (effect programming language) and the nasty truncation of the file when it was canceled was fixed. The export process that resulted in corrupted More →

Ever had the urge to do a podcast in the most unlikely place without your PC, MIC and Software. Ever been caught flat-footed with the idea you’ve been thinking of for a whole week, but can’t seem to blurt out the words to make it enticing. Then these iPod Mics would make your day with both style and function. It was a long time coming, quality CD grade recording facilities for your iPod you’ve worked so hard to buy. There are a lot of aftermarket mics out on the market from the cheapest to the outrageously expensive but we’ll shake down three to make things More →

Again from BlueMics, we have two of the best mics around that are named coldly as Snowball and Snowflake. The Snowball is considered to be one of the first professional quality USB mics around that gives you the ability to record studio quality sound anywhere. As with their other products, they need no additional software that eats up precious space you might have otherwise needed to save audio. You can record quality audio on the kitchen table, garage, on the road or a concert giving professionally accepted audio that captures all sounds in the More →