Aug 31
Personal David
journalism, london, nokia world, podcast
Hello readers,
I’m still busy writing for All About Symbian, and managing my CFS, so blog posts here have had to wait. However, I wanted to post a quick summary of my latest activities, and where you can find me these days.
My last-but-one blog post told of my very first podcast appearance. I’m pleased to say I’ve had a lot more podcast appearances since then. I’m a regular member on the All About Symbian podcast; and back in July I was a guest on episode 11 of Disaster Protocol, an information security podcast. I’ll also be making a return appearance on the Phones Show Chat podcast at the end of September.
My most exciting news is that I’ll be attending both days of the Nokia World 2010 event as part of the All About Symbian team! I’ll be in London from the 13th to 15th of September. I’ll also be attending the blogger meet at the 1000Heads office. I’m very excited about this, and it will be my first time in the field chasing stories. I am also going to have to carefully manage my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Fortunately, my hotel room isn’t far away, so I can easily rest up if I need to.
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Jun 17
Personal David
audio, chat, david, gilson, microphone, mobile, phones, podcast, show
Exciting news – I was a guest on this week’s Phones Show Chat podcast!
David recording with the Phones Show Chat team
Quite a while ago, I posted about some of my favourite podcasts, and Steve Litchfield’s Phones Show was one of my video choices. Since then, along with Tim Salmon, Steve launched a companion audio-only weekly podcast where they discuss mobile phones and applications.
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Apr 12
Mobile News David
chat, england, hull, meet, phones, podcast, show, uk
If you follow
Steve Litchfield‘s Phone Show podcasts, and want to meet other phone geeks like yourself, I have two questions for you:
- Are you a fan of The Phones Show video podcast and its audio companion?
- Would you like to meet other phone geeks somewhere in the north in England?
If the answer to both of those questions is Yes, then read on …
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Dec 29
Personal David
Australia, bush, cats, cimm, comedy, crazy, fire, funny, james, kennedy, media, news, o'brian, podcast, police, queesnland, rant, sean, talk
Warning – NSFW language
This is my tribute to one of the funniest items on the News Real podcast. So this is to say thanks to Sean and Cimm for pumping out quality content for 10 years.
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Nov 4
How-To Guides David
command line, editing, file, id3, id3 mass tagger, linux, mp3, mp3tag, music, podcast, tag, windows
MP3 tag editing
If you download many podcasts, you’ll often find that some of them aren’t tagged properly, and so don’t show up in your MP3 player where they should. There are two ways you can deal with this. First is the manual method with a graphical application. My recommendation goes to MP3TAG. It is a highly flexible system which can handle all the tag fields you’d need to handle, including cover art. It can also fill in tag information from systematically named files, and vice versa, as well as pulling tag data from Amazon and the CD internet database. When I was organising my 1,800+ MP3 collection, I was able to tag and rename every file with a ridiculous amount of ease.
Manual tag editing is all well and good for occasional jobs, but when you need see to podcasts that your computer gets every week, it can get repeative and time consuming. Therefore you need an automated method. The best way to automate a task is to find a command line tool for which you can write a script and execute on your operating system’s scheduler.
This is were ID3 Mass Tagger comes in. This is a really handy little utility, pointed out to me by fellow blogger, Pokeh. Fortunately the author makes versions of this for most operating systems. I run a script on my Ubuntu laptop for synchronising my podcasts with my mobile phone, and I’ve been able to incorporate this into that script to correct all my genre tags.
MP3Tag in action
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