Promising new functionality from ITConversations: one can build a URL that will excerpt a portion of the recorded audio. I’m testing it here:
The only hitch in the get-along is the requirement to specify a start time “after the intro.” As a former ITConversations post-production audio editor, I reckon this means after the show theme, sponsor mention, etc., ending with “and now, here’s blank from blank.” But I also reckon “after the intro” will be ambiguous to most users (heck, I may have it wrong too), and in any case, there’s no easy way to calculate this time. I’m guessing the intro lasts about 2 minutes, and doing the math from the readout on my iPod, where I heard the bit I want to quote. It would probably be a little easier to do this on the website, but one would still have to slide the slider back and forth to get the times, and then one would need to do some simple but tedious calculating. (EDIT: I was about 35 sec. off my first try, and needed to time my way into the clip and make the appropriate edit to the code. And it was a lot of hunt-and-peck to get the out time where I wanted it. Fortunately, the code is transparent and easy to tweak, even for a nonprogrammer like me. Still, at the outset I feel I’m shooting with a blunderbuss.) If the clip works for you, you should hear the line about low-risk activity and high reward being bad for fun, with some elaboration and a supporting example.
All of that said, this is a vital step forward and I congratulate ITConversations on taking it. Not for the last time, I am proud to have been associated with this operation.
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“Hitch in the get-along” – man you are soo ready for Texas 😉 Seriously, this IS a cool feature and the clip worked fine for me.
Not only is this cool, but I also want to know about the Podcast. Which ones is that? Now if we could only say Get me 100 seconds of the audio that starts with “low-risk activity”.