Listen to the first episode of the J Spotter Podcast, where I discuss the basics of business blogging.  This episode was recorded for the formal launch of the Sun.Star Blog Chronicles tomorrow, October 25, 2005.


Download links below.  Or if you have a podcast client such as iTunes, simply add the J Spot feed to subscribe:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheJSpotter.


This and subsequent episodes will automatically be downloaded.  The 128k MP3 and 64k WMA are similar in quality.  I made sure to encode to WMA for smaller filesizes, including a 32kbps version for ease of download by dial-up users.  The URL has been coralized to ease up on my server bandwidth use.


Update: I moved the source of the audio to another server, but with the URL still coralized.


And as posted on Pinoy.tech.blog: In drunken stupor and amid a raging cold, I recorded and mixed the audio from midnight to 4 a.m. of October 24, 2005 using Audacity, and then encoded to 128kbps (CD-Quality) MP3 using the LAME MP3 Encoder. I then converted into Windows Media Audio (WMA)

64kbps (CD-quality) and then 32kbps (Low quality) to bring down the

file size to half and 1/4 of the original MP3, which was about 7

megabytes.

I’m still working on making my RSS feed podcast-compatible thru Feedburner;

I’m just facing some minor issues in the how my own site outputs the

XML code, hence Feedburner won’t detect my audio feed as an enclosure.

For the meantime, check out feeds.feedburner.com/TheJSpotter for my J Spotter blog and audio feed.


The URLs are no longer coralized.  I’d been getting reports that the coral download is timing out (October 31, 2005).


Enjoy!


MP3 - 128 kbps Hi – 6.74MB CD-quality MP3
WMA - 64kbps Hi – 3.42MB CD-quality WMA
WMA - 32kbps Lo – 1.73MB Low quality WMA


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