Music Industry Changes Tune

An article in the Wall Street Journal explains that the music industry is looking at licensing podsafe music:

Licensing music for podcasting has long been a source of internal debate at music labels. Many executives argue that it is worth handing over some content to spur consumer interest, while others maintain that the companies erode the value of their product by knowingly allowing it to be freely downloaded and copied.

Ted Cohen, a digital-media strategist who for many years was an executive at EMI Group PLC, says that keeping up-and-coming artists “protected” from use in podcasts has often backfired. “We’ve protected them so well nobody knows they exist,” he quips.

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New Podcasting Software Beta

Check out the latest FeedForAll Beta, this is the third and final beta release of FeedForAll v2.0 Beta 3 product. How is this better for podcasters?

The biggest improvement to FeedForAll in this release involve the publishing feature. This allows not only the feed file itself to be uploaded, but it also adds the ability to have the feed’s image and the feed’s enclosures to be automatically uploaded too.

Download the FeedForAll Beta

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Apple Rolling in Dough

Global demand for the iPod music player and other Apple products helped the technology firm boost profits by 27% to $546m in the fourth quarter.

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Podcasting Winners Announced!

The Podcast & Portable Media Expo announced the winners of the “Best of Show” awards for the 2006.

Winners are selected by a committee of attendees in a variety of categories and recognizes outstanding products, software and services for creating and consuming podcasts and other portable audio and video content.

The winners were:

Best “All-Inclusive” Podcasting Software:
Podcast Station  from Audion Laboratories

Best PC Podcast Audio Editing Software:
Adobe Audition by Adobe

Best Mac Podcast Audio Editing Software:
Bias Peak Pro 5

Best Audio Capture Software:
Audio Hijack Pro  from Rogue Amoeba

Best Mobile Podcast Recording Device (under $500 category):
M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96

Best Mobile Podcast Recording Device (over $500 category):
Marantz PMD670

Best Podcast Voice Processor:
Aphex 230 Master Voice Channel Processor

Best Microphone for Podcasting (under $250 category):
Samson C03U Multi-Pattern USB Studio Condenser Microphone

Best Microphone for Podcasting (over $250 category):
Shure KSM27

Best Mobile Listening Application for Audio and Podcasts:
spodradio

Best Mobile RSS Reader for Podcasts:
FeederReader

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UN Looking for Podcasts

UNESCO, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is launching a call for submissions of video podcast proposals for a series of production grants. The deadline for submission is 15 October 2006. Grants will be up to $ 3,000.

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