The Sound of Young America Collections
I'm very excited to announce the availability of The Sound of Young America in a brand-new form... CD collections!
Thanks to our friends at PodDisc, you can now purchase professionally manufactured collections of the program on MP3-CD. Each CD contains four months' worth of broadcasts -- about 20 hours of audio -- and can be played on your computer, transferred to your iPod, or even played on many late-model car stereos and home CD and DVD players.
The CDs are only $9 each, and the price drops even further if you purchase them by year (three CDs for $25), or if you purchase a complete archive -- six CDs for $40.
Not only is it a great way to have all our shows at your fingertips, it's also a great way to give The Sound of Young America as a gift, or share it with friends. And of course, the proceeds support your favorite show!
Visit PodDisc.com to order now!
AND if you order this week, and use the coupon code "MAXIMUMFUN", you get 10% off. That's good till the end of Monday 12/11. Go!
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posted by Jesse Thorn at Monday, December 04, 2006
7 Comments:
If you reformatted them into mono (at the risk of alienating all of the audiophiles in your audience), you could get 8 months onto one CD! (I've often thought a mono format/lower bitrate would cut your downloading bandwidth costs, too)
Mono formatting doesn't save as much space as you'd think, honestly. It usually saves only a couple megs of file size over joint stereo, sometimes one one or two.
Congrats, Jesse!
You've made it to CD Collection level.
Just like TAL. That's great news.
Except that if I charged like TAL charges... I'd be asking twice as much, and you wouldn't get the CD, just a DRM-restricted digifile.
Hey, you're right! I guess the MP3 format is already exploiting the similarity of the two channels. What about 32 kbps? That really does cut your filesize in half, though your mellifluous voice is compromised as a result (doesn't affect your phone interviewees much, though). It's still very listenable, IMO.
True. You were podcasting how many years before them again?
Two years.
And until recently, their archives were, iirc, $6.95/show.
Which is not to say that TAL has not been over the past 10 years the Greatest Radio Show Ever.
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