Well things have been going well.
I have encountered one bug right now, and that’s the new audio player. It seems no one cares too much about supporting M4A files which are the files we use in podcasts. Amongst podcasters the file format is not very rare at all, and it’s the native format Garageband spits out for podcasts. I’m trying to get a video player that will play on all of Apple’s iDevices if someone is browsing the website, but still also work for our email subscribers. So far, that’s a problem. It’s either one or the other. Well, pray that a solution is found, please.
Tonight I am working on Jonathan Urie’s Moments of Music & Inspiration podcast. It still takes me many many hours to put a month’s worth of podcasts together, but now, with the new system, they will release themselves automatically. So this means I can take the couple of days to setup a month’s worth of podcasts, but then at the time and date I scheduled them for, they will release automatically. Oh boy, this is a HUGE deal. I used to be up late every night releasing all the podcasts so that people would have them in the morning as soon as they awake so they could listen while they’re on the tube or subway or bus or bicycle, but now, it just does it while I’m snoozing. Praise the living God for that!! It doesn’t take less time, but it does mean I’m not up late at night.
You may have noticed the conference went well. We had a live stream, and now we’re releasing the podcasts one per day, using the same automated, well, semi-automated system.
Right now the Plunge! podcast is also working like this. It’s very exciting. Don’t know what Plunge! is? Subscribe now! link is on the front page.
Soon 21CR will be working the same way, and as i said, tonight I am working on Jonathan’s podcasts.
Well, please keep praying. There’s only 11 of you subscribed to get this blog update, so really, you, please pray :)
Our traffic though for this month is terrific. We may not hit the 81,000 I was expecting, maybe about 79,000, but still amazing figures!!
Grace and peace.
ia.