GarageBand is a neat application for podcasting. It was made in such a way that it can interface with iChat for as many as 10 simultaneous people in one room, recording each person as a seperate track. This is pretty neat as you will definitely find it useful to edit the levels of each guest.
Gabe Mercado was stuck in Quezon City so we had to do our podcast project over the air. Both of us being Mac users allowed us to fire up GarageBand and record via iChat. As it turns out however, we had to redo several segments of the podcast due to GarageBand crashing 10 minutes into the recording. We’ve figured out two solutions (UNluckily only after recording three separate sessions which we would stitch to one long episode) – the first is to repair your disk permissions using Disk Utility. The second would be to delete your GarageBand preferences and let the GB redo the file when you relaunch.
Ugh. Utter hassle. I highly doubt this is a Leopard issue as the support forums say this is more of a GarageBand glitch. With online voice recording, I’ve come to believe that the two most stable applications would be Skype and Gizmo Project, the latter having a default recording feature. Anyone would like to share their VoIP solution?
P.S. The Photo Booth video on top has really nothing to do with this post.
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I am an audacity guy myself. Trying out BlogTalkRadio (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/default.aspx). Internet radio with podcast features. You can access it via Skype I believe.
Hi Jayvee,
(Off-topic)
I guess there’s something wrong with FeedBurner, my readers suddenly climbed to “377” and yours to “400”, not that I’m not happy with the “sudden” increase but I guess there’s something wrong with their server. I know you’re a guru especially on things like these. (http://hethler.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-there-something-wrong-with.html#links)