RIP George Jones, one of the pioneers of Country Music
Friday, April 26, 2013
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Clearing Up Some Confusion
Hey gang, it's come to my attention that people are having a hard time finding the chatroom during the live broadcast.
Awdio.com doesn't have integrated chats so the work-a-round is that we've had to create a chatroom specifically for the show on another site.
The show is here at http://www.awdio.com/indiespotlightlive
And the chatroom is here at http://tinychat.com/indiespotlight
Hope this clears things up for everyone. Don't forget we'll be on tonight (Sunday) starting at 9 pm (eastern U.S.) and I hope to see you folks there!
Awdio.com doesn't have integrated chats so the work-a-round is that we've had to create a chatroom specifically for the show on another site.
The show is here at http://www.awdio.com/indiespotlightlive
And the chatroom is here at http://tinychat.com/indiespotlight
Hope this clears things up for everyone. Don't forget we'll be on tonight (Sunday) starting at 9 pm (eastern U.S.) and I hope to see you folks there!
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Recap on First awdio.com broadcast
Hey gang, happy April Fools day.
We did our first show on awdio.com last night. Overall I have to say it went well, no glitches as far as the show goes, although people were having a hard time finding the chatroom.
The issue is that because awdio is strictly a broadcasting platform, they don't have an interactive chat built into the "channel" so for a work-a-round I created a chatroom for the show on a site that hosts chatrooms. I wasn't sure how that was going to go, and I have to say given some of the feedback that I've gotten the results were mixed to say the least.
So I guess when I post promo's for the show I have to include the chat as a separate link so folks might find it.
Some of the other issues I have with awdio right now are, they don't give you statistics on live listeners or how many times a particular broadcast was streamed. This to me is an issue because I want to make sure that the listener count is worth the time putting into the show, I want to make sure the music is being heard, and I'm not just a "fart in the wind".
I'll reach out to them to see if they might consider implementing this feature, I don't think it would be hard to make these statistics available, if blogtalkradio, and blogtv were able to do it, I'm sure this site should as well, given what I've seen so far I think they have the technical know-how, they've nailed it with the ease of use and how the music sounds. I also like how awdio.com posts on their front page the shows that are currently being streamed live. I couldn't help but notice that Indie Spotlight was at the top of the list during the live broadcast and while there aren't really any features that allow you to reach out to your listeners on there, I have to say I felt welcome nonetheless.
Which brings us to what I think went the best, which was the show itself. I listened to part of the archive and I have to say it sounded kick ass. There is no appreciable degradation in the sound quality between the live show and the archive at all. I have to find out what setting I'm missing to make it available as an embeddable player but right now you can go to my main page on awdio and listen to the show.
I'm liking the archive feature. Especially since if I have a crap show I don't even have to put it out there for others to bear witness after the live broadcast if I don't want to. Awdio gives an incredible amount of control over archived content. I actually have to select whether or not I want an archived broadcast to be made available, before it becomes available. It's awesome I'll spend some time and figure out how to make an embedded player work this week.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Notes on other fellow former blogtv hosts;
I haven't talked to him recently so I'm not sure what Didgerod is doing. He did his premier show on vaughnlive but I'm not sure if he's sticking to that platform or not. I'm thinking because of the infamous "line 5" in their Terms of Service he might not.
As far as I know the other Native American flute players are still on vaughnlive for now.
Unsigned Musicians could be transitioning over to awdio.com. I helped Deb with a test show, I believe she's moving her regular show over there but I'm not 100% sure, I'll keep you folks posted.
I'm not aware of any of the regulars that I knew on blogtv transitioned to YouNow. Which is not a bad thing, from what I've heard, YouNow totally sucks. There is a rumor that someone is creating a website that was like blogtv, without the bugs and issues that many of us had on blogtv. Right now I"m still getting more information, I'll let you folks know what the deal is, but from what I've heard it sounds promising.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Show notes;
I'm sticking to awdio.com for now, I've scheduled shows on there out to the beginning of next month, after which I'll decide whether or not it's working for me and make a decision to stick to it or move on. The show sounds really, and I mean really good on there. I'm inclined at this time to stick with it, and make the chatroom issue work somehow.
How I do that? Hell who knows I'll keep you all posted.
Stay tuned.
We did our first show on awdio.com last night. Overall I have to say it went well, no glitches as far as the show goes, although people were having a hard time finding the chatroom.
The issue is that because awdio is strictly a broadcasting platform, they don't have an interactive chat built into the "channel" so for a work-a-round I created a chatroom for the show on a site that hosts chatrooms. I wasn't sure how that was going to go, and I have to say given some of the feedback that I've gotten the results were mixed to say the least.
So I guess when I post promo's for the show I have to include the chat as a separate link so folks might find it.
Some of the other issues I have with awdio right now are, they don't give you statistics on live listeners or how many times a particular broadcast was streamed. This to me is an issue because I want to make sure that the listener count is worth the time putting into the show, I want to make sure the music is being heard, and I'm not just a "fart in the wind".
I'll reach out to them to see if they might consider implementing this feature, I don't think it would be hard to make these statistics available, if blogtalkradio, and blogtv were able to do it, I'm sure this site should as well, given what I've seen so far I think they have the technical know-how, they've nailed it with the ease of use and how the music sounds. I also like how awdio.com posts on their front page the shows that are currently being streamed live. I couldn't help but notice that Indie Spotlight was at the top of the list during the live broadcast and while there aren't really any features that allow you to reach out to your listeners on there, I have to say I felt welcome nonetheless.
Which brings us to what I think went the best, which was the show itself. I listened to part of the archive and I have to say it sounded kick ass. There is no appreciable degradation in the sound quality between the live show and the archive at all. I have to find out what setting I'm missing to make it available as an embeddable player but right now you can go to my main page on awdio and listen to the show.
I'm liking the archive feature. Especially since if I have a crap show I don't even have to put it out there for others to bear witness after the live broadcast if I don't want to. Awdio gives an incredible amount of control over archived content. I actually have to select whether or not I want an archived broadcast to be made available, before it becomes available. It's awesome I'll spend some time and figure out how to make an embedded player work this week.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Notes on other fellow former blogtv hosts;
I haven't talked to him recently so I'm not sure what Didgerod is doing. He did his premier show on vaughnlive but I'm not sure if he's sticking to that platform or not. I'm thinking because of the infamous "line 5" in their Terms of Service he might not.
As far as I know the other Native American flute players are still on vaughnlive for now.
Unsigned Musicians could be transitioning over to awdio.com. I helped Deb with a test show, I believe she's moving her regular show over there but I'm not 100% sure, I'll keep you folks posted.
I'm not aware of any of the regulars that I knew on blogtv transitioned to YouNow. Which is not a bad thing, from what I've heard, YouNow totally sucks. There is a rumor that someone is creating a website that was like blogtv, without the bugs and issues that many of us had on blogtv. Right now I"m still getting more information, I'll let you folks know what the deal is, but from what I've heard it sounds promising.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Show notes;
I'm sticking to awdio.com for now, I've scheduled shows on there out to the beginning of next month, after which I'll decide whether or not it's working for me and make a decision to stick to it or move on. The show sounds really, and I mean really good on there. I'm inclined at this time to stick with it, and make the chatroom issue work somehow.
How I do that? Hell who knows I'll keep you all posted.
Stay tuned.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
