Oooh! Logan’s back with his awesome Music for Makers site. Such a great resource for songs for podcasts (and more). If you can afford to or make money from your creations, be sure to hit his donate button to support his efforts.


I finally sorted out the artwork bug and got my micro.blog podcast (micro-cast?) set up at the popular places. Details on how to subscribe are here if you’d like to hear mostly unedited thoughts I speak out into my phone and publish. Kind of like the rest of my social media experimentation. 😉


Turns out the issue with my Micro.blog mini podcast feed was, of course, the artwork. 🤦‍♂️ I should’ve known. (Wrong size / ratio for Apple.) So I went out into my cabin and took a quick selfie with my fav toque to use instead.

AI generated image of a “Canadian recording a podcast” with the caption “Faraway, So Micro”

A Test Of My Microblog Podcasting System

It’s been over a month and Apple podcast Connect still hasn’t approved this podcast to be viewed in Apple Podcasts so I’m testing out this episode to see if I can get it to work.

Transcript


I know this is a pedantic things I just need to get over… but whenever I hear or (especially) read someone refer to their podcast or a podcast episode as “…the pod”, I feel the need to scream really loudly at the wall for 5 seconds.


I sometimes think one of the people on the podcast I’m editing are un-listening, over-talking jerks—when in actuality I moved their track ahead by accident.

Always check to make sure tracks are aligned appropriately. 😆

Screenshot of Logic Pro editing two tracks where one track is very clearly off from the other track.

Via @manton - the omg.lol folks are adding a micro podcasting feature called Spake. I love this kind of experimentation in audio and podcasting.


Quickly mowed the lawn before more rain hits this afternoon. Now I’m a sweaty mess and putting on headphones to edit podcasts isn’t a great experience. 🥵


I hate trying to pick out music beds for my own podcast ideas. I love something and think it’s amazing on the first 10 listens, and then on the 11th I hear how cheesy, awkward, and just not right it is.

Even for show ideas that just end up in the bin. 😆


Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel on “how to podcast”, I generally send people to Transistor’s excellent How to Start a Podcast series they’ve put together. It’s a great primer on all things podcasting from start to finish.