LibriVox on CBC Freestyle
I was interviewed about LibriVox for CBC Radio One’s banter-filled afternoon show, Freestyle. CBC Radio podcasts a pathetic 3 shows, and they don’t provide mp3’s, but I will happily break their stupid anti-podcast policy, and their immoral and should-be-illegal-for-a-crown-corporation copyright policies (for my thoughts on this, see here and here), and give you this pirate mp3 recording.
(I recorded it on my little mp3 player/FM receiver, and it gets a bit staticky - sorry about that. … Oh, and yes maybe it’s a bit of cheap to post pot shots at the CBC while being happy that they did a spot on LibriVox, but what can you do? This is the exact sort of reason it drives me crazy that they don’t provide mp3s).
Hey - great to hear from you again. And thanks for the comments.
Rest assured, we are well on our way to launching a major expansion of our podcast offerings. We’re just setting it up now — buying servers, building a podcast publishing tool, training our producers, and so on.
I think you’ll be pleased with the rollout when it launches, but either way I hope you’ll continue to comment!
Tod Maffin
CBC Radio
Comment by Tod — February 4, 2006 @ 4:57 pm
hi tod, thanks for the note! I look forward to being able to proudly proclaim my happiness with CBC’s podcasting offerings. You better not make me pay for em though!
Comment by hugh — February 4, 2006 @ 5:42 pm
I won’t. :-)
Comment by Tod — February 5, 2006 @ 5:23 pm
muisc (& good content) to my ears. looking forward to it!
Hugh.
Comment by hugh — February 6, 2006 @ 12:09 am
Congrats on the freestlye plug - still not a fan of that particular show, but any exposure that librivox can get is a good thing, both for librivox itself and for podcasting in general. Keep up the good work.
Comment by Justin — February 6, 2006 @ 6:28 pm
On a geeky note, you can record crystal clear versions of radio broadcasts with something like Audio Hijack - it’ll just record whatever audio is coming through your computer. So if you listen to the live CBC feed, you just record that. At least thats what I do when I feel like pirating our public broadcaster.
Comment by brett — February 7, 2006 @ 9:22 am
thanks justin…& brett I can’t wait to check audio hijack … is it better than wiretap?
Comment by hugh — February 8, 2006 @ 11:03 pm
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Comment by Tristram — March 3, 2006 @ 8:13 am