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This saturday at 1pm pst I'll be talking about iPodder and podcasting on Leo Laporte's weekend show on KFI 640AM in Los Angeles.

Leo's Podcast can be found here.

Jason Clarke: "Podcasting - Traditional Radio Broadcasting’s Worst Nightmare"

Lots of questions in email today about licensing of podcasts using mp3 technology. Up to 100 grand you're in the clear. If you're making more than that, contact me! :)

mp3licensing.com - Q & A - End Users: "A license is needed for commercial (i.e., revenue-generating) use of mp3/mp3PRO in broadcast systems (terrestrial, satellite, cable and/or other distribution channels), streaming applications (via Internet, intranets and/or other networks), other content distribution systems (pay-audio or audio-on-demand applications and the like) or for use of mp3/mp3PRO on physical media (compact discs, digital versatile discs, semiconductor chips, hard drives, memory cards and the like).

However, no license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with an annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00."

On the other hand, the AAC format license says: "There are no royalties due on the distribution of audio encoded in the AAC format."

Qix: "Podcasting è un nuovo termine che in questi giorni sta facendo il giro della blogosfera. Per chi non l'avesse mai sentito prim."

NBC - Digital Edge: "Podcasting -- like blogging -- seems to combine the best of the Internet with the best of traditional media. It's a way for someone to create and distribute a show to 40 people. And it also would allow a media company to distribute audio content to millions."

Brian: "Plus there is a sheer cool factor that one minute you're having lunch in a maritime Canadian province, or your chatting with a friend in Seattle from your home in Belgium over the net, then a day later, some guy is listening to your voice and idea on his iPod, in a train tunnel a country or continent away. When viewed in this light, audioblogging is actually pretty cool."

Dan Gillmor: "The word for this is "podcasting," delivering audio to MP3 players like the iPod. I'm working on a column about the genre.

This is going to be a big deal, sooner than you think."

Ed: "Remember the days you were staying up late to be able to press the record button to record your favorite radio show?"

Steve Gillmor: "You see, there's this new platform -- the iPod Platform -- that's emerging to compete directly against the broadcast channels of television and radio, and against the page view portal models of the Web. Already today there's a loosely-coupled software-hardware bridge that's delivering radio-on-demand to information-starved audiences trapped in their drive-time and exercise routines"

Earlier today, after I pointed to Hugo's podcast set-up test, I started to approach the problem from a different angle, I'd thought I'd tried them all. Guess what, it worked! I played all kinds of audio clips straight from the computer through AIM to Dave in Seattle on a test call.

The quest, was to create a setup, without external boxes, whereby you can record voice, mp3 players (or any audio application for that matter) and another person via iChatAV (works with AIM on windows). The other party also has to be able to hear the mixed feed, including audio clips, songs etc. Achieving this without creating piercing feedback loops and echo chambers was the rubik's cube of my week.

Hugo has now posted a diagroam and detailed instructions on setting up a Mac for ultimate multi-person audio recording via the internet. He uses some different apps, which is good since choice is better.

The answer lies in an open source software audio router called Soundflower.