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Alexander Williams replied on July 09, 2008 04:04 to the idea "Live Web Needs Visual Feedback of Audio activity" in TalkShoe:

Might be a good idea to get a sketchy roadmap of features for the next few months if they'll even commit to something wholly squishy, to have something to put in front of the community to say, "Here's what we're doing and about when we're aiming to see it hit."

I'm still waiting to see microblogging of events from TalkShoe Internal. ;)

Josh Budde replied on July 09, 2008 03:50 to the idea "Live Web Needs Visual Feedback of Audio activity" in TalkShoe:

I have a call with Dave tomorrow and will let you know what he says.. Although, I know the Engineers are working to fix the Streaming issues and the some other bugs at the moment.

I'll ask him and let you know.

Josh Budde
Support Specialist

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Alexander Williams replied on July 08, 2008 20:23 to the idea "Live Web Needs Visual Feedback of Audio activity" in TalkShoe:

Awesome. Any time-line on the current implimentation map? :)

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Alexander Williams replied on July 08, 2008 20:22 to the problem "Why won't TalkShoe support GNU/Linux?" in TalkShoe:

That is exactly what I'm saying. Well, "any of those packages" may be stretching it, since I haven't personally tested all of them, but any VoIP package that could interoperate with Gizmo Project, Xlite, and the like will absolutely work with TalkShoe. In fact, if you'd Googled up "voip talkshoe" the first hit is a reference to some solutions for it, and the PDF for configuring SJphone pretty much applies to every single VoIP solution on every platform, some of them only available in Alpha Centauri.

Really, this isn't even a hard problem.

Every single talkcast / community call lists the IP for VoIP callers to connect to both on it's main page and in the chat clients, so there's no excuse for not knowing it's there. Point the VoIP client at the IP, connect, put in your show ID and PIN and you're go. It's just that easy.

Alexander Williams replied on July 08, 2008 20:14 to the question "Why does it take so long to play a recording?" in TalkShoe:

Very possible, I suppose. Hmmm, that puts me of a mind of a thing to ask for in another thread ...

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Josh Budde replied on July 08, 2008 14:59 to the idea "Live Web Needs Visual Feedback of Audio activity" in TalkShoe:

I like the idea.. and I am sure it is on the list, because I think you will eventually see most of the features from the Pro client on the Web Client.

I bet you will see it in the future.

Justin Breithaupt replied on July 08, 2008 13:22 to the problem "Why won't TalkShoe support GNU/Linux?" in TalkShoe:

So let me get this straight. You can take any of those VOIP packages and configure them to connect to talkshoe with directions from somewhere? I'm still confused but it sounds great.

Hatton replied on July 08, 2008 11:12 to the question "Why does it take so long to play a recording?" in TalkShoe:

The problem appears to have cleared up this morning. Downloads start after 8-10 seconds now instead of 3 minutes. Someone must have been doin' a LOT of downloading!

robotfrog replied on July 08, 2008 01:58 to the problem "Twitter IM down May 23rd-May24th" in Twitter:

Another night of downtime...another guess that the code is still being re-written. Better odds of success if you start outsourcing your coding work to a larger group of contractors in some other nation.

But I'll hold out hope for another week.

Alexander Williams replied on July 08, 2008 01:33 to the question "How can I mute all but one person?" in TalkShoe:

The only method that works well is really to hit Mute All then tap the Unmute button next to the guest in question's name in the host client. Reasonably fast once you get the rhythm, though.

Alexander Williams replied on July 08, 2008 01:31 to the question "Paying Hosts" in TalkShoe:

Please see http://getsatisfaction.com/talkshoe/t... which contains multiple referential links.

Alexander Williams replied on July 08, 2008 01:29 to the problem "Why won't TalkShoe support GNU/Linux?" in TalkShoe:

This is where I send out a dozen knee-cappers to pay you a visit.

What part of "TalkShoe is perfectly accessible through any dozen VoIP client solutions, all of which are free and here's a link to several Linux ones" is incomprehensible? Did I slip into writing in Urdu again? Common problem around here. Possibly Aramaic, or even Cthonian. But I was pretty sure I pointed out to painful, bedraggled length you have a whole galaxy of options other than a paid subscription to Skype.

Justin Breithaupt replied on July 08, 2008 00:44 to the problem "Why won't TalkShoe support GNU/Linux?" in TalkShoe:

Free? What's free about buying a telephone number?

Alexander Williams replied on July 07, 2008 23:20 to the problem "Why won't TalkShoe support GNU/Linux?" in TalkShoe:

I'm curious ... Did you read any of what I wrote?

I did, in fact, point out there are a myriad of free, Linux-based VoIP solutions that work just fine. Right now. Thus, you don't need to buy VoIP with Skype unless you really, really want to. Which you don't.

Good thing you have eight or ten other options I linked to, n'est pas?

Alexander Williams replied on July 07, 2008 23:17 to the question "How come my mic is horrible in Talkshoe Live Pro?" in TalkShoe:

[drily] I'm sure BlogTalkRadio will appreciate your custom.

In the meantime, you might actually want to inform support about how you're trying to get heard on your show. If you're using ShoePhone through TalkShoe Live Pro, yes, well, ShoePhone isn't exactly well known for it's clarion voice clarity. But since you can use other VoIP solutions, from Skype to Xlite to Gizmo Project, you've got plenty of other solutions if TS actually fulfills your needs rather than the rather strangely limited BlogTalkRadio.

That said, you go do what you need to do.

Justin Breithaupt replied on July 07, 2008 23:14 to the problem "Why won't TalkShoe support GNU/Linux?" in TalkShoe:

I don't think your completely right about this.

I agree with what you said about the sound quality not being that good on Vista but people who call with XP and have good bandwidth don't seem to have any trouble. I'm confident that the same is true with GNU/Linux.

Purchasing VOIP with Skype is one solution but it should not be the only one.

Alexander Williams replied on July 07, 2008 23:10 to the question "HELP!!! I can't log in as the host!!!!!" in TalkShoe:

My guess is that the phone number you're coming into the system from is attached as PIN to a roommate's account. It's auto-acquiring from there and thus, not connecting you as host.

I suspect that if you dial *67 before calling TS, it'll block Caller ID and TS'll have to query for the PIN. That should get you in the way you want to.