Diary of a Podcaster Part 18
I recently decided I’d had enough of the endless deliberation and procrastination and so I started producing a weekly podcast again. As of today the second episode of Season 10 of the Contains Moderate Peril podcast is available on all major platforms. I must admit, although I was confident that a few people would listen to the show, I was completely taken aback by the overall reaction. The Contains Moderate Peril podcast was warmly welcomed back by previous listeners on social media and the statistics for the first show have been most positive. For myself and Brian, recording the show is like putting on a comfortable pair of shoes. Last night’s recording went okay and I think after a few more episodes, the recording and editing process will be an efficient process. Keeping each episode to an hour or under means that the conversation stays on point.
Previously, I have used third party hosting sites such as Podbean and SoundCloud to manage both the Contains Moderate Peril and the Burton and Scrooge podcasts. Although these were paid services they come with many benefits. The most beneficial is the convenient provision of an RSS feed. As I now host the podcast on Squarespace I’ve had to use a third party service to create an alternative. I managed to use Feedburner to create this a few years ago when I reposted some old episodes but as of July 2021, the service has gone into maintenance mode. Luckily, it still provides its basic functionality, so yesterday I submitted the RSS feed to several podcast aggregation sites. As of today, I am pleased to announce that Contains Moderate Peril is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts and Spotify. If you wish to subscribe just search for “CMP Podcast” via whatever podcast client you use.
At present I am using Craig to record directly from Discord. Being a free service it has many positive attributes, the price being an important one. However, because it uses Discord as a recording source, the sound quality is subject to the whims and caprices of Discords compression software and bandwidth. I’m not sure if I am entirely happy with the sound quality of the finished podcast, at present. I may do some experimentation with other podcast recording services such as Zencastr. Perhaps using Zoom as a platform and then extracting the audio afterwards is a viable alternative? I recently bought Bandicam and Bandicut so I have the requisite tools for the job. Perhaps Zoom is the way to go as it means as well as an audio version, I can post a video edition of the show to YouTube. It’s worth consideration. I also need some sort of means to track the podcast statistics as the facilities that Squarespace offer are very basic.
Next Sunday 16th January, Brian and I will be recording the next episode of the Contains Moderate Peril podcast. We’ve decided to take a break from some of the more weighty discussions that we usually have and to do an AMA (ask me anything) themed show. So if there’s a question you’d like to ask either of us please get in touch. We’re happy to address most enquiries as long as they’re within the confines of the law and public decency. Please feel free to submit your enquiries to the show via the contact page of the Contains Moderate Peril website and make sure you write AMA or “ask me anything” in the subject field. In return we’ll happily give you a shout out. If you have a blog, live stream or such like we’ll be pleased to mention it. Thank you in advance for your support and interesting questions. The next episode of the Contains Moderate Peril podcast will be available on Monday 17th January.
