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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Nine Free Audiobook mp3's from Barnes and Noble

From CNet News:

Get eight short stories and Mark Twain's most famous novel, all free from Barnes & Noble.

(Credit: Barnes & Noble)

Good news, commuters: Barnes & Noble is offering nine audiobooks absolutely free. They're downloads, of course, but they're in MP3 format, meaning that you can burn them to CDs, copy them to your iPod/Zune/Sansa, and listen on your Netbook or whatever.

So, if they're free, they must be bargain bin books from no-name authors, right? Wrong. But eight of them are short stories, most ranging from 30 minutes to 60 minutes. Thus, while you may not recognize the titles, you'll definitely recognize some of the authors.

Among the more notable names: Kurt Vonnegut, Louis L'Amour, Junot Diaz, Alice Munro, and Jonathan Lethem. Oh, there's also this guy Mark Twain, who provides the collection's only full-length novel: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

To get the freebies, just add one or more of them to your shopping cart. (Although they're priced at a penny apiece, your cart will show a $0 balance.) Even though no money's changing hands, you'll need to create a Barnes & Noble account and supply a credit card. (If you'd rather not, choose PayPal as your payment method--even if you don't have an account.)

You'll also need to download and install B&N's OverDrive Media Console software, which manages your audiobooks and lets you play, burn, transfer, etc. It's available for Windows and Mac.

In the interim, you'll receive an e-mail with a link that takes you to the download page. So, yeah, you have to jump through some hoops to get your audiobooks--but such is the price of free, right?

Monday, April 20, 2009

Another Free Audio Editing Program: Wavosaur

From Podcasting News:

Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files.

Wavosaur supports basic audio editing (cut, copy, paste, etc.), plus has features for creating audio loops, analyzing audio and doing batch processing.Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing.

The program has no installer and doesn’t write in the registry. Use it as a free mp3 editor, for mastering, sound design. The Wavosaur freeware audio editor works on Windows 98, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

If you’ve used Wavosaur, leave a comment with your thoughts.

Download page.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Submit Your Audio Photos To Gizmodo Flickr Pool

From Gizmodo- thought you fellow addicts might like to participate!
Coachella's coming up as Gizmodo's Listening Week is coming to an end. Help us go out with a splash by jumping into our Gizmodo Flickr pool.

We want to make a gallery of all the coolest audio gadgets that you can find. Old, new, shiny, broken, expensive, cheap, colorful, emo—any spectacularly awesome shots of headphones, speakers, listening equipment, or even a microscopic look at your dirty eardrum. Basically, just send us anything audio-related that will make us speechless—which is quite difficult for some of the Gizmodo boys—and we'll post up a gallery of the best ones we get.

We're also hoping to see some photos of insane stage setups at Coachella, and if you've been reading our First Album stories, I'd also like to invite you guys to upload a shot of some album art along with a caption of what it meant to you.

All you have to do is log in to your Flickr account and go here, join our group, and then click "send to group" on your individual photos you want added to our pool.

[Gizmodo Flickr Pool - image from joey joey joey]


Thursday, April 09, 2009

New Podcast Debut: Passages

A good friend of mine, Scott Josephson, has begun a new podcast for your listening pleasure, Passages:

"Passages. Corridors into the soul. Selections from a flowing stream of consciousness. The poetic thorns of thoughtful prose.

"Featuring performances by the hosts of: The AndyCast, Life On Tap, The Love Long and Prosper Podcast, The Truth Seekers Podcast, and a mysterious voice you've never heard before.

"Passages. Available only at podantics.com."

The first episode went live today! I'd also suggest going back in the feed and checking out his Podplay, "Desolate Metropolis."

Enjoy!

Unleash your inner poet and get involved with audio drama!

Thanks to Dream Realm Enterprises, you can get involved in the fabulous world of audio drama in a couple of different ways. Do you have the directing bug? Do you like to take many voices and sounds, put them all together and make a masterpiece? Well, here's an excellent opportunity to do just that! Here's a little note from the creator of DRE's Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vince:

AUDIO EDITOR/DIRECTOR NEEDED!

Hello.

I hope you are well, and having a jolly time of things.

I recently discovered that the polar bear is the animal that is most likely to
attack you. So stay away from them.

I'm wondering if anyone here is interested in helping with the audio production
of Series 2 of "The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes", a rather silly series
about mysteries and moustaches made with much love and giggles for the splendid
Dream Realm Enterprises.

I'm hoping to find someone who would enjoy putting the episodes together;
someone who enjoys mucking around with sound, and who likes working with actors
(i.e; someone mad).

I appreciate that audio production is a laborious, skilfull and specialised job,
and that people lead busy lives and have tremendously exciting social diaries.
But hey, I did warn you all about the polar bears thing, so surely that's reward
enough for what I'm asking.

Also, I make tasty hot cross buns*, and I'm willing to share the recipe with any
and all volunteers.

Interested? Of course you are!

Contact Vince Stadon
stadonclan@hotmail.com

and you'll make me very happy indeed.

With kind regards and very best wishes,

--Vince Stadon


* It's not true about the hot cross buns. They taste horrible.
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See, I think he's just going to play "Hot Cross Buns" on a recorder. So there's one great opportunity. Here's another, for all of the poets (and don't even know-it's) out there!

Hey gang,

Dream Realm Enterprises is pleased to announce the coming of another new show! Poet's Passion! If you love poetry, then you'll adore this new show, which is all about poetry! Yup, we're bringing you a show devoted exclusively to new and original poetry, which is read by some of the brightest talent on the web, and then set to music! It's coming in April, so stay tuned!

Now that the announcement is out of the way, I can speak directly to all you poets out there! We're seeking new and original poetry! Not just any ole poetry, but the good stuff! So, we're asking you to send us your poems! If we like them, they may just be read on Poet's Passion!

This isn't a paying gig, but you will have the proud knowledge that your work is being heard! Plus, you'll retain all rights to your poetry! We can't say fairer than that, now can we?!

We need your poems soon, so be sure to email them directly to our official email addy (darkbuilding1@yahoo.com). The initial submissions need to be into us by no later than March 31st! But we'll still be accepting submissions after that as we intend to make this an on-going series. Just make sure the poems you send us are yours, and original, and not based on anything else.

Okay, start sending us those poems ASAP! Thanks, and good luck!

Cheers!

Jonithan
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I know it says get your poems in by March 31, but they are always accepting submissions. If you want your poem to come to life, send one Jon's way!

So, there are two great ways to get involved with the awesomeness that is Dream Realm Enterprises. Check out their site, and email them today!