Follow the white brick road
Pre-requisites: an OSX machine, an iPhone, and the desire to podcast!
1. Getting out of jail with Installer.app
Download the installer from http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/ and run it. Be sure to shut down iTunes before doing the installation.
2. Grab the VNotes package
3. Record your podcast
With the post production process outlined below, you can record a group of a half dozen around a conference table. Just face the iphone up on your table, press record in the Vnotes app, and start chatting.
4. Command line synch
Install the BSD subsystem and SSH packages. Then, you'll need to SFTP to root@ip.address.of.iphone with the default root password, "dottie".
The recording are located at /var/root/Library/Recordings.
Execute get from the command line to copy to your computer.
5. Convert & Levelator
The iPhone records using adaptive multi-rate (AMR), more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate.
Use Levelator to normalize volume across participants who may not be the same distance from the iPhone.
6. MP3-icize, Tag, & Publish
- Convert to MP3. I use Audacity. Be sure to download the separate LAME component to be able to encode MP3s. Audacity is free, cross platform, and open source.
- Adding ID3 Tags: http://peippo.eu/musorg/ offers a free ID3 editor.
- Publish: FreeIQ would love to have your content, but tune into Paul Colligan for how to get it into the Itunes Podcast directory, http://freeiq.com/howtosubmityourpodcasttoitunes
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