I haven't made a podcast in years, this page ought to be deleted but I might pick it up again so I don't. sorry for the disappointment.
click here to access the rss feed, or copy and paste this url to your podcast client: http://www.villasubrosa.net/webcast/autopilot.rss to subscribe to the show. Scroll to the bottom to find direct links to each episode.
Yes! This is the page to grab your villa sub rosa podcast! Woo hooo! I ran a radio show on the local community radio for a year. Every tuesday night from 11pm till 7am I would be on the radio. I often got so high on pot that I couldn't really talk so did only the barest minimum of djing. That's when I decided to call myself “The Autopilot.” That's ok though because late night radio does not benefit from a lot of babbling. I would mix it up with music chosen from the archives solely on the basis of genre and being sure that I didn't put 2 songs of any one genre side by side. Whenever I could I played things that were off the wall odd or humourous and I often included weird little sound effects, comedy tracks, or other spoken word bits, including reading snips of literature myself into the mic. Music was placed together for maximum dissonance, putting Frank Sinatra next to Trent Reznor or Metallica, for instance. When I encountered songs I found horrible I would sometimes play animal sound effects over them, or even just remove them immediately, apologize to my audience, and play the next track. This amused said audience quite nicely. Funny but nobody ever called to complain that they LIKED the insulted songs.
I don't have access to those wonderful archives but I do have a massive archive of my own as well as access to the public library and once I get the mechanics of recording off of my stereo worked out I can start peeling music from my old LPs and cassette tapes as well as my large mp3 collection.
Here on the webpage I will be adding direct links to each episode as it's created. I only got a single episode done before discovering I'm not nearly committed enough to create them on a regular basis so check back now and then to see if a new one is in.
For newbies, podcasting is like freezing a short bit of radio into mp3 format. Podcasters update the collection with each new show. You *could* just pop over to this, that, and the other website finding and downloading the latest mp3, but a podcast client and the special rss file you link to allows you to get the latest show automatically. Then you just take the newest ones and listen to them, either by transferring to your player, or listening on your computer. You can use any mp3 player you like. CBC has some excellent offerings, PBS has put out the Nova series in podcasting format, and there's a universe of other choices from music to comedy to dramas and rants. I think the biggest problem is finding stuff you like and sifting through what you don't. Even searching for reviews and suggestions on google nets an overwhelming variety of pages where folks have reviewed podcasts.
Sourceforge has done us yet another awesome favour in creating Juice podcasting client and Audacity audio editor.http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ The former is a free cross platform client that makes keeping up to date with podcasts a simple process. The latter is a marvelous sound editing and recording program that lets me compose my show for you and record from any input source, clear and clean, and edit precisely.
Episode quality will improve over time so if you're arriving later and there's a lot of episodes, pick the newer stuff. You can always listen to older stuff if you're bored enough.