Category: Multimedia

Welcome To The Fifteenth Year Of Podcasting The Edinburgh Fringe

Posted on August 2, 2019August 11, 2019 by Ewan Spence

August in Edinburgh means it’s Festival time, which includes the Fringe. And with the Fringe comes my annual podcast and radio show from Scotland’s capital. For those of you already subscribed to the podcast, you’ll find the traditional prologue episode for the year is now available in the RSS Feed. For those of you not familiar with Daniel Cainer’s ‘Edinburgh’ song you can head to the main website, find the show in iTunes, or add the RSS feed to your app. As always the show is produced with Radio Six International, so you can hear it online every Saturday with

Music, Metadata, And Money

Posted on June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 by Ewan Spence

Contribute to a song, the song makes money, you get paid. It sounds simple, but even in the 21st century there’s a problem.

BBC New Broadcasting House ( Copyright Paul Gillett and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.)

BritBox Subscriptions And The TV Licence Fee

Posted on February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 by Ewan Spence

The BBC and ITV have announced BritBox, yet another streaming service trying to sign up as many people as possible for a monthly fee, is going to be coming to the UK. Which sounds lovely, but what will it mean to the licence fee and public service broadcasting a few years down the line?

Netflix And The Return Of The Dark Torrents Of The Internet

Posted on October 11, 2018October 11, 2018 by Ewan Spence

The rise of Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and the online streaming services looks to be driving a growth in BitTorrent usage and media piracy. When consumers are given easy and almost friction free access to the media (even if it’s a £10/month fee) they’re going to stay there, rather than explore the darker corners of the internet. While there are still questions over revenue distribution (especially with streaming music services) this is still a better option for creators than having everyone pirate the latest album or TV series. The problem is that the myriad of services, all with their own monthly

Some Ideas For Successful Podcasting

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Ewan Spence

If there’s one thing many people agree on, it’s that podcasts are not an easy way of earning income (although is there truthfully any easy way online?). John Corcoran’s look at some of your options is a good place both for new ‘casters and old hands. One of them stood out for me: Jared Easley, co-founder with Dan Franks of the podcasting conference Podcast Movement, suggests new podcasters use Patreon to generate revenue for their show, which allows a podcaster to accept contributions from listeners. While the strategy may not yield huge dollars, Easley says that “crowdfunding is a form of a litmus test

Musical Time Capsules

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Ewan Spence

What happens when you try to power up and look at the contents of your seventeen year old iPod? James Bareham fights Firewire cables, antiquity, and Thunderbolt dongles to find out. And the results? not just a bit of digital archaeology but a look back into the mind of his younger self: Though my Apple music devices changed over time, growing slimmer and more powerful with every iteration, much of the music on them remained the same. Seventeen years is a long time in both the worlds of music and technology, but not everything dates in the same way. Though