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November 11, 2004
Podcast Review: $250 Million Radio Show
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3 and a half stars
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Format: radio show
Content: variety of music
Rating: 
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Typical Length: 20 - 25 minutes
I think Derrick Oien at User Generated Content has a bone to pick with the RIAA. Derrick used to work at MP3.com, and the RIAA may have cost him a job by suing the pants off them. Thus the name of his podcast, The $250 Million Radio Show.
This is yet another podcast playing extremely kicking tracks from non-RIAA artists, and if this keeps up I'm going to run out of work-time to listen. And in all seriousness, Derrick is one of the most vocal evangelists of the non-RIAA music charge in the podcasting arena, and that's great.
As I mentioned, Derrick plays some really great tunes (and a few that I wasn't so hot on). Derrick's shows are often, but not exclusively, organized around a theme (electronica, punk/hardcore, he's planning a singer/songwriter show, like that). Derrick has had some trouble with the smoothness of his fades in and out of the bumper music, and hasn't been using a music bed or intro / outro recently, perhaps for that reason.
I believe Derrick's using his cell phone's bluetooth headset to record his vocals. That's an interesting, and probably inexpensive, route to take, but the podcast suffers for it - his vocal levels are often lower than the music volume and the quality of that sound isn't great. In fact the 'casts are often hard to listen to on my portable, especially when there's ambient noise around (like in my car). The sound quality for the music, on the other hand, is universally good, as one might expect of someone who seems to have an real interest in the music. Derrick encodes at 128 kbps, which leads to larger file sizes, but not too bad - I think he might be able to do with 96.
Derrick's been pretty good about naming of his files and good use of meta-data (see my file name rant on this subject). Derrick doesn't give track lengths (see my track length rant on this subject as well).
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Posted by cori at November 11, 2004 02:14 PM