Adactio: Links

Huffduffer saves Web audio to your own podcast stream

This slipped past me somehow: a review of Huffduffer by Jason Snell for Macworld.

Thanks, Jason! Glad you like it.

Break the Page

A lovely site with thoughtful articles on the long-term future of the web.

There’s audio too, which is unfortunately locked up in the unhuffduffable roach motel that is Soundcloud, but I’m hoping that might change.

Teenage Diaries Revisited

Fascinating fodder for Huffduffer:

Beginning in 1996, Radio Diaries gave tape recorders to teenagers around the country to create audio diaries about their lives. NPR’s All Things Considered aired intimate portraits of five of these teens: Amanda, Juan, Frankie, Josh and Melissa. They’re now in their 30s. Over this past year, the same group has been recording new stories about where life has led them for our series, Teenage Diaries Revisited.

Audio clips from Full Frontal 2012 | Lanyrd

All the talks from this year’s excellent Full Frontal conference in Brighton, available in audio form for your huffduffing pleasure.

A Whole Lotta Nothing: Listening to podcasts piecemeal: huffduffer

This makes me so happy! Matt is using Huffduffer. Specifically, Matt is using Huffduffer together with Instacast and this is how he’s doing it.

034: With Jeremy Keith - ShopTalk

I had a lot of fun chatting with Chris and Dave on the Shop Talk Show. It is now available for your listening and huffduffing pleasure.

Sound of Summer

This is sooo nifty: Chloe’s obsessive Summer music visualisation is a lesson in responsive design and progressive enhancement. It’s also pretty fascinating.

Slow down Katniss by 25% and what do you get? Will… - Final Boss Form

Andy Baio pointed to this from Twitter a few hours ago and ever since, I’ve been playing it and giggling over and over.

adactio : sxsw2012 on Huffduffer

I’ve been huffduffing some of the best talks from this year’s South by Southwest—some I saw, some I missed. Subscribe to the podcast feed if you want to catch up with them at your leisure.

The Unobserved

Describing itself as a radio magazine, this site gathers together audio from multiple sources. Oddly though, there’s no podcast feed and they make it hard to get at the source mp3s.

audiolibre.net | Free sound anthology

A lovely sound blog from Steve Bowbrick (one of the curators of the sadly decommissioned Speechification). Here, he gathers found sounds of all kinds together: great audio grist for the huffduffing mill.

Internet Archive Search: collection:”thesoundofyoungamerica”

Thanks to Jason Scott, every episode of The Sound Of Young America ever recorded is now stored on the Internet Archive. Get huffduffing!

Huffduffing - Plausible Thought

A nice succinct description of Huffduffer. Lovely.

Why I love Twitter and the Internet | Kevin Ebaugh

I love this little story of small pieces of the internet loosely joining together: NPR, Twitter, Downcast and Huffduffer.

A Christmas Carol read by Patrick Stewart on Huffduffer

Perfect seasonal entertainment. Perfect.

Getting Sourcey – native HTML5 Audio and video | Web Directions

Everything you ever needed to know about adding HTML5 audio and video to your site, courtesy of the mighty John Allsopp.

Terry Bisson’s “They’re Made Out of Meat” on Huffduffer

A classic (very) short science fiction story that posits an interesting solution to the Fermi paradox.

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - The Reith Lectures

The entire archive of the Reith lectures is now online for your huffduffing pleasure.

Everything I’ve learned about podcasting over the last four years | fortuitous

A very handy “how to” for recording your own podcast.

The State of HTML5 Audio - PhobosLab

A rather vicious evaluation of browser support for the audio element and the audio API. It is divided up into:

Browsers From Companies That Actually Care About HTML5 Audio
Browsers From Companies That Hate the Web Enough to Not Support Ogg/Vorbis, but do Have an Audio Tag So They Can Say They Have an Audio Tag (Seriously, Fuck You)
Browsers That Say They Support HTML5 Audio But Actually Don’t Support HTML5 Audio

The Pod F. Tompkast, episode 1 on Huffduffer

The Google voicemail transcript, which begins at 11 minutes in, cracked me up.

MTA.ME

The New York subway schedule converted into sound by treating each line as a string.

audio.js

A handy shim for audio: it uses the native implementation where possible and Flash as a fallback.

Mashup Breakdown - Girl Talk

A visual representation of each track on the new Girl Talk album.

Playbutton

A wearable read-only music player that's a badge. Kind of awesome.

Dirpy Studio Beta - Internet DVR - Convert Youtube Videos to Mp3s

A very handy tool for converting YouTube videos to MP3.

The Box

Excellent huffduffing fodder: "The Box is a series of short interviews with people who make cool stuff, hosted by Tim Van Damme."

aM laboratory

A beautiful piece of musical mathematical poetry.

The Creation Engine No. 2: HTML 5 multimedia

Jim experiments with canvas and audio.

The WebM Project : The WebM Project : Welcome to the WebM Project

Mozilla, Opera and Google are collaborating on an open format for audio and video for the web (a wrapper for Vorbis for audio and VP8 for video).

Transcription Services | uiAccess

A list of services you can use to get your podcast transcribed.

Timed tracks - WHATWG Wiki

Hixie needs your help. Document examples of augmented video (or audio) such as captioned or subtitled media.

Demo jPlayer 1.1.0 : jQuery audio player plugin

A nice-looking jQuery plugin for HTML5's audio element, with fallback to a Flash player. I might just end up using this on Huffduffer.

Polish Sound Postcards

The wonderful world of audio pressed onto postcards: a Polish tradition.

Dewey Music

A treasure trove of music from Archive.org.

Audio Atrocities (TM)

"This site is intended to be a constantly growing and changing museum for the study and enjoyment of truly terrible video game voice acting in video games from the very first CD system, the Turbografx until the present day."

HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment

A very pretty little Twitter canvas experiment accompanied by music delivered via the audio element. View this in a capable browser.

Huffduffer :: Add-ons for Firefox

Thanks to the brilliant Glenn Jones, there is now a Firefox plug-in for Huffduffer. Right-click on a link to an audio file and select "Huffduff it" and you will get the pre-filled Huffduffer form in a pop-up window.

Bug 25267 – Autobuffer on <audio /> cannot be disabled

This single issue is what's stopping me using the HTML 5 audio element on Huffduffer.

The Musical Cliché Figure Signifying The Far East: Whence, Wherefore, Whither?

A fascinating account of the origins of a musical cliché.

Busker Du

Busker Du (dial-up) is a recording service for buskers through the telephone (preferably public payphones hidden in subway stations).

Podcasts from the University of Oxford

A treasure trove of podcasts from the University of Oxford. Some of this stuff is crying out to be huffduffed.

BBC World Service - Find A Programme - Digital Planet

The BBC were at dConstruct. This podcast episode includes interviews with Steven Johnson, Aleks and the the Dopplr Matts.

The day the music died [dive into mark]

Excellent explanation of DRM by Mark Pilgrim, prompted by MSN Music's gunshot to the head.

Speechification

A blog of all the best bits of Radio 4.

Radiohead/ Remix/ Nude

Ever wanted to remix a Radiohead song? Me neither. But for those who do, they now can.

Thriving Office

Worst. Business Idea. Ever. A CD of office sounds so that homeworkers can impress clients on the phone with the sounds of industriousness. "Instant credibility for home businesses!"

Last.fm – the Blog · Free the Music

"As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website."

Podcast: Welcome to Tech weekly from the Guardian | Technology | Guardian Unlimited

There's a new technology podcast available from The Guardian. It's hosted by Aleks and judging from the first episode, it's going to be very good indeed.

R2D2 Translator

Type a word, hear it from Artoo.

Episode 21 - .net magazine

I had a chat with Paul Boag this morning and now the podcast episode is online. Me, Paul Hammond, Drew McLellan and Christian Heilmann discuss APIs.

ATypI Brighton 2007

Audio and video from the typography conference held in Brighton earlier this year, including Joe's presentation about the signage in the Toronto subway. Download the files or subscribe to the podcasts.

Welcome to Bleep Labs!

I want a thingamagoop.

Last.fm – the Blog: Last.fm Acquired By CBS

Probably old news by now but Last.fm has been acquired by CBS, who I hope are not evil. The good news is that our favourite music site is staying in London. Rock on, FMers.