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Alexander Williams started following the problem "Is there an update to these problems?" in TalkShoe.

Alexander Williams replied on June 29, 2009 03:51 to the problem "Recording not there." in TalkShoe:

Likewise here. Did we lose the storage solution again? This has become a monthly habit, to judge from reports and Twitters ...

Show 33899, incidentaly. It committed and usually it takes less than five minutes to show up on the site. No such luck this time.

Alexander Williams started following the problem "Recording not there." in TalkShoe.

Alexander Williams started following the idea "Windows Vista Sidebar Integration" in BumpTop.

Alexander Williams marked one of mjkennedy's replies in MagCloud as useful. mjkennedy replied to the question "Poor Print Quality - Problems with Proof Issue:".

Alexander Williams replied on January 17, 2009 21:47 to the question "VoIP / phone-in volume gain on the TalkShoe side misset?" in TalkShoe:

Excellent. Hopefully that'll mean I'm not the most terrifyingly loud person on the call anymore ... :)

Alexander Williams asked a question in TalkShoe on January 14, 2009 02:39:

VoIP / phone-in volume gain on the TalkShoe side misset?

I know I'm the only one who keeps posting about these things, but the VoIP bridge has had some issues lately and at least one replacement since I last checked. Can someone check the gain on it? Volume levels between my callers are significantly variant on the recordings, even more so by a good chunk than they are listening live.

Anyone else seeing this sort of thing in their recordings?

(For complete disclosure, I use Xlite to connect for my calls, with auto-gain and echo cancellation OFF, and I'm still by far the loudest person in the recording.)

Alexander Williams marked one of Dave Nelsen's replies in TalkShoe as useful. Dave Nelsen replied to the problem "The TalkShoe Pro Client won't allow me to record or talk.".

Alexander Williams replied on December 28, 2008 11:06 to the idea "Add A Dedicated Forum" in TalkShoe:

In theory, the Ning site can be the target of a redirection from the root TS site. In fact, I think that there are ways to embed the whole thing as if it were organic. But I'll be truthful ...

I hate the Ning forum.

It's deeply unintuitive in design and just generally ugly. I actually rather liked the Vanilla forum and never found it particularly unintuitive, though it really did need a much better introductory "read this first" area and a better set of "subfora" set up from the beginning. Not really fond of most web-based fora based around the Vbull or BB3 designs, but I've always been a believer in going with the best technology even if it's not like what everyone else's doing.

Definitely, I think we need a better core forum, and it needs to be linked under the TS site more directly.

Alexander Williams replied on December 15, 2008 11:30 to the question "i can't end show" in TalkShoe:

And this is STILL a problem, 8 hours on. Which does tend to make one somewhat less than pleased with the situation.

Alexander Williams replied on December 15, 2008 03:44 to the question "i can't end show" in TalkShoe:

I'm showing the exact same issue with my show at 33899. Termination won't terminate, the streams wouldn't stream, and inbound SIP was broken. I was ... displeased.

Alexander Williams replied on October 15, 2008 22:41 to the question "How do I disable the "gate" in the desktop client to ensure continuous sound from the host?" in TalkShoe:

Terminator, given your setup, my recommendation would be "don't use ShoePhone." You need to move on over to SJphone or Xlite, both of which have more direct control of some of the gating behaviour. While I'm sure a number of people use SP and get good sound out of it, I've never been one of those people and in my experience, it's really best for a single speaker relatively close to a single mic, and has trouble beyond that, including recognizing more ongoing, dynamic input.

SIP/VoIP solutions generally give you more control and have extremely low additional setup overhead once configured. I'd suggest you try one.

Alexander Williams replied on October 13, 2008 20:16 to the question "Will we get access in the API to more specific download info anytime soon?" in TalkShoe:

At this point, almost anything would be better than what we have access to now, though. Even something extremely bare-bones would be nice. The interpretation or visualization side we can grind together ourselves but just a little something to work with would be nice.

(Heck, I'd settle for just the currently available Stats pages downloadable as a CSV file. Timestamps and weekly download info can be ... well, if not perfect, useful for trending.)

Alexander Williams asked a question in TalkShoe on October 13, 2008 06:50:

Will we get access in the API to more specific download info anytime soon?

Will we get access in the API to more specific download info anytime soon? Specifically, I'd settle for XML or CSV formatted download info including IP (for uniqueness tracking), referrer, episode downloaded and time stamp, so that I can work up some analysis on which episodes are downloaded, when, and what's moving people. As is, I really have no insight into what promotions are helping, where folks come from, etc.

Alexander Williams marked one of Dave Nelsen's replies in TalkShoe as useful. Dave Nelsen replied to the question "Will I be able to call Talkshoe via Skype for free in the future?".

Alexander Williams marked one of Dave Nelsen's replies in TalkShoe as useful. Dave Nelsen replied to the question "http://www.talkshow.com/tc/28905".

Alexander Williams replied on October 13, 2008 06:39 to the question "Please help me get FAMOUS! :)" in TalkShoe:

The RSS URL is right there on your show page, upper-left quadrant. The orange and grey one that says right there in the open, RSS Podcast? Yes, that one.

The easy way to grab it is to right click and hit copy link address. That you can toss around to podcast directories to your heart's content.

Alexander Williams started following the question "How do I disable the "gate" in the desktop client to ensure continuous sound from the host?" in TalkShoe.

Alexander Williams started following the question "Show not Uploading Again" in TalkShoe.

Alexander Williams replied on October 02, 2008 10:40 to the question "My talkcast isn't showing up" in TalkShoe:

My suspicion is that sometime during the night a server got wedged again, in particular the one that processes uploads and newly recorded fukes, builds the RSS, refreshes the page, etc.