Hi, this is Numeric Citizen, and you are listening to the Thoughts and Tribulation from a Compulsive Creator podcast.

This is episode number zero.

Yep, this is episode zero.

First pilot episode was terrible, but I’m working hard to improve things.

It sounded terrible because of the room configuration, my microphone setup on the iPhone, and also I think it was obvious that I was reading something.

So I think it wasn’t very good, and it wasn’t where I thought it should be.

So now I made some change to the configuration.

Now I’m recording on the Mac with ScreenFlow.

I’m using the same microphone, but this time I enabled the voice isolation feature of macOS, so it should be better.

And since I’m recording in ScreenFlow, the post-processing should be faster, but I’ll have to use a utility called Permute, which will allow me to convert the audio file from MP4 to an MP3 file, and then I’ll have to use a website called TagMP3, where I can set the ID3 meta tags required for a podcast file.

I think my experience with my first post on microblog is a success.

It’s easy to create a new blog post and attach the audio file and then set the title, which is important here to have a title to a specific episode.

And I think microblog is very simple, straightforward, and the RSS feed is taken care of.

The thing that I find a bit strange, though, is that the podcast RSS feed contains everything that you post on microblog.

I know that because I subscribe to my own feed in Reader, and I was surprised to find that the content of the feed is way more than I thought it would be.

I thought it would be only the post with an audio file.

The other thing that I am currently having a problem with is Podcast Connect, which seems to be stuck at processing the podcast details.

I’m not sure why.

I’ll let it go for a few days and see where it goes.

I hope this second try will be much better, with much better sound.

This concludes this episode number zero, and don’t be shy and share your thoughts or comments on microblog, Mastodon, and BlueSky, where this is cross-posted automatically thanks to microblog’s cross-posting feature.

Again, thanks for listening, and please, in this challenging and constantly in crisis world where a state of emergency is omnipresent, take care.

Until the next episode, bye.