MP3 - 1 hour 54 minutes 1 second, 52.2 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here.
In their 200th episode, Dan and Fab explain how they produce the podcast in every little, geeky detail.
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0:01:26 Introduction
We introduce this special episode where we will explain in every geeky detail exactly how we produce the show.
0:04:46 Studio Setup
We talk about the specific hardware and setup involved in making the show at both Dan’s and Fab’s end.
Schematics of Fab’s Studio
Schematics of Dan’s Studio
0:38:09 Live Show
We discuss how we stream the show live via Ustream and Dan’s Icecast server.
0:46:57 Production Workflow
We explain the whole workflow of how an episode comes together.
- LXnews
- Freelish.us
- Audacity
- EasyTAG
- Encoding formats: MP3 - 64kb/s constant bitrate mono / Ogg Vorbis - quality 2 (variable bitrate) mono
- Drupal, Views module
- Markdown
- Feedburner
- Libsyn
- identi.ca
1:23:54 Listener Questions
We take questions from the IRC.
- Fab’s Podcast List: Security Now, This Week in Tech, Windows Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, FLOSS Weekly, This Week in Google, The Command Line Podcast, Frostbite Media, The Linux Link Tech Show, Ubuntu UK Podcast, Free as in Freedom, Rathole Radio, HPPodcraft, The YoGPoD, This is Not a Podcast
- Dan’s Podcast List: FLOSS Weekly, Free as in Freedom, SModcast, Hollywood Babble-On, Radiolab, Football Weekly
We talk about how our podcast theme came about. You can download the score (thanks to Jon Kulp) here:
Song: Sudo Modprobe by Fabian A. Scherschel and Dan Lynch
The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.