Podcast Episode 3 finds me just returned from a relaxing break down in Cornwall, and still feeling pretty mellow, so the atmosphere this week is more laid back than usual. There are two unfinished new songs which found their way into the podcast, and I’ve always described the live show as having “half finished songs, improvisations etc” which is something I’d like to be able to do more of as the podcast progesses. I feel that some of my most satisfying compositions have been created in the moment and then never repeated, but then again you;d have to wade through a fair amount of inferior material to get to the nuggets so it’s a difficult one to pull off on a recorded session. Here’s the online podcast player for listening to Episode 3:

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3) Untitled 2 Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts Something about taking shelter from the rain in a wooden summer house. 4) Now That I’m Living Here Title: “Now That I’m Living Here” Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts First published on The Andy Roberts Tapes 5) Redemption Song Music and Lyrics by Bob Marley 6) Puddles Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts First published on The Andy Roberts Tapes 7) When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease Music and Lyrics by Roy Harper

Hello again, I hope you’re enjoying the summer, no matter what. And this week is for the summer holidays edition of the Andy Roberts Podcast – episode 2. Here’s the online podcast player for listening to Episode 2:

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Podcast I had an idea about turning the Weekly Ustream.tv show into a podcast and started putting it into practice. So last Tuesday instead of just recording some of the individual songs during the webcast for uploading to youTube, I recorded the whole half an hour or so of the show, songs and talking, and saved it using the ustream record system. I was fairly happy with the way that went from a performance point of view, it worked better for me than premeditated songs and faffing about with song tit;es description and tags in the middle of a broadcast. The experiment was to see what I could do with the resulting file. I downloaded it to my Mac – ustream provides a file in .flv format (Flash) and when I clicked on the downloaded file it opened an application I’d never seen before! Mpeg-streamclip was able to export in various formats including quicktime, Mpeg4, and audio only. So far so good. The quicktime version allowed me to quickly edit out the five songs from within the video and save them individually as .mov , all ready for uploading to youtube. So this meant that with a small amount of effort I can use ustream for the live streaming show, record it all in one go, and still have the songs available in youtube for embedding elsewhere and so on. But what about the podcast? Ah, well I went away for a few days, so now I’m getting around to it. The audio podcast is here: http://andyroberts.me/wp-content/podcast/Podcast-prototype-1.mp3 and the video podcast is is still hosted on ustream at

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/7526414 also embedded below

But this still doesn’t count as a podcast yet until I have it set up as a series you can subscribe to in iTunes or the audio player of your choice. Fortunately I still the rest of the month of June to get that boxed off, since this is still the prototyping period, and I’ve set the goal of getting started for real in July.