Audioboo Brings Audio Blogging To The iPhone
Mar 18th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting, Podcasting Services, Podcasting Software
Mobilecasting update: Audioboo is a free iPhone application (App Store link) for recording and sharing audio with the world.
A built-in recorder lets you create audio blogs of up to 3 minutes in length and post them to your own account on the web. You can add titles, text, geolocation info and a photo to the recording before you upload it. Your audio is saved as an mp3.
In addition to publishing audio blog posts from the iPhone Audioboo app, you can browse and listen to other people’s posts from your phone or via the web.
The site’s still in beta. According to the developers “We debated long and hard about releasing this version, since there’s a much better one in the works and the website needs a fair amount of work. But we decided to get it out there and see what happens.”
The site does not appear to provide RSS feeds for the audio posts, at this time. Javascript embed codes and a WordPress plugin are available, though.
Here’s an example of an embed, via Neville Hobson:
If you’ve used Audioboo, leave a comment with your thoughts!
Neat idea but the voice recording is so terrible, with persistent pops and other “you’re too close!” mistakes that anybody who knows which end of a microphone to talk into wouldn’t make, that its put me off of their product.
I’ll wait for a better advertisement which can show me that it possible to NOT sound like a total recording noob doofus.
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Really cool product!