Podcast Maker 1.1 Released
After many nights of madness we have finally gotten 1.1 out the door. The main new feature of 1.1 is .Mac publishing. It is simply wonderful. You can actually publish a podcast with literally two clicks of the mouse. You don’t have to type in any settings at all. It just works. It also features publishing to SFTP servers. I know that I’m in the minority, but I actually care about how my password is transmitted across the Internet and using SFTP makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Lots of educational institutions also by policy do not allow FTP because they have been burned over and over by hackers sniffing packets for passwords; if you’re in that environment, life should be good for you with the new SFTP support.
A minor newly revamped feature is conversion from mp3 to m4a for enhanced podcasts. Instead of bothering the user with all kinds of conversion settings like bit rate, sample rate, and audio channel layout, Podcast Maker just does the right thing by itself: it looks at the mp3 file for these settings and uses them to make the m4a file. Obvious isn’t it? All software should do that automatically, you’re probably thinking. Ho ho ho, no…
We have also put in some eye candy disguised as new features. Podcast Maker now has a progress slider that you can use to skip around an episode. It should be a big help during chaptering too. To keep our goal of absolute minimalism and simplicity, it animates in and out depending on whether the episode is playing or not. You might not even notice the difference at first. To accompany the slider, we put in a spectrum analyzer that I think looks pretty sweet. Good looking software makes me feel good. So we want to make you feel good too by making good looking software.
Enjoy!
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October 8th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
Many nights of madness indeed! Combination of coffee, redbull, dr.pepper, coke… I’m still having hard time recuperating from all the caffeine buzz. Can’t sleep!!!
Hope you all enjoy our software as much as we enjoyed developing it. There are many more exciting things to come so keep a close eye on us.
Peace~
October 18th, 2005 at 4:45 pm
Let me start off by saying thank you. You’ve made what I thought was going to be a difficult project into something simple and fun. With that said…
I am attempting to publish my first podcasts. However, I already have about 15 audio files that will go up on my first publish. Here’s the problem I am having:
All of the entries are sorted by date from newest to oldest. Thats fine by me. I’ve changed all entries to the appropriate date. My problem is that I have a few dates that have more than 1 file. What sorting method does Podcast Maker use for such instances? I cannot get my tracks in the right order and it is important that my podcast stay in chronological order. What can I do?
I hope my question is clear and I look forward to being able to broadcast my first set of podcasts.
Daniel
October 20th, 2005 at 4:06 am
Hi Daniel,
If the days are the same, the episodes are listed in the order that they were added. The most recent one shows on top.
Next time, if you need support, contact us at support@potionfactory.com.