Welcome again to the ARTC Podcast, your monthly source for free, original audio drama! This month: Size: 6.9M Duration: 14:40

This month we bring you All You Zombies... by Robert A. Heinlein, adapted for audio by Victor Koman, performed live at the Heinlein Centennial Convention in Kansas City, MO, July 7, 2007.

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There is Adventure in Sound!

Hello, everyone in podcastland!

The hiatus, unfortunately, continues unabated.  But progress is being made.  If you remember from the last post, part of the process we're going through is editing the raw tracks from the DAT to make them sound as good as possible.  We've recruited an additional editor to help us with that, so that should speed things up a little.

By the way, if anybody knows anybody else who would like to work with something like this, just let us know at podcast@artc.org.  We can send you all the information about the recordings and what we'd like done to them and we'd very much appreciate the help.

We appreciate everyone's patience while we continue this process.  I check the stats here on the podcast periodically and it's always gratifying to see the numbers still going up...even when we're not updating, we're still finding new people who enjoy New Old-Time Radio.  And don't forget that we still like to hear from you.  Let us know what you liked and didn't like in the old podcast and we'll be sure to keep those things in mind when we roll out the new one.

In the meantime, keep checking the website and don't forget about Audible.com.  Great ways to make sure that the audio drama you love keeps coming.

There is Adventure in Sound!

Greetings, all.

First I'd like to thank you all for your patience as we continue the process of bringing the ARTC podcast back.

Second I'd like to ask you to be patient a little longer.

The archival process is complete...sort of.  We've captured all the recordings from the original DAT files that we have on hand.  There are a number of shows missing, but I'm not going to let that stand in the way of the podcast returning.  Those shows can be found and dealt with as a separate project.

What we're doing now is a two-step process.
1) We're taking the raw DAT files and editing them.  What typically happens with our live shows is that someone starts the recorder early so we don't forget and then it runs through the mic check and sometimes longer.  We're cutting all that out.  We're also removing intermissions and other dead air.  And we're trying to fix other technical glitches when possible.
2) We're filling in the blanks on all the administrative information to do with these shows.  Dates performed, times, cast and crew, scripts performed, authors, musicians, Foley artists, etc.  Luckily most of this is included with the recorded credits.

Once we have both of those things then we'll be able to bring the podcast back in full force.  Why didn't we do all that before we started?  Good question...I think the answer is that we were too eager to get started and thought we could do both at the same time.

Thanks again everybody...we promise we haven't forgotten about you.

In the meantime, keep checking the website and don't forget about Audible.com.  Great ways to make sure that the audio drama you love keeps coming.

There is Adventure in Sound!

Hey, folks, we're now entering the third month of the hiatus and I have no idea if anybody is still reading this, but I thought I'd give you an update on how things are going.

The archival process is proceeding as quickly as possible.  This process involves taking DAT recordings and transferring them to the computer hard drive, which must be done in real time, and then those recordings can be evaluated and cleaned up a little.  We are also making careful notes about which scripts were performed, who wrote them, whose voices were featured, and who the tech crew was.  I just finished the recordings from 1993 and have started on 1994.  Which should give you some idea of the scale of this project.

We're also experimenting with a few mailing list programs so we can move the list off of YahooGroups and onto our own server.  If anybody has any suggestions for something that might be good, send them to podcast@artc.org.

We've also begun posting pictures of our live performances to our website.  This is still in beta phase, but you can check them out if you like at www.artc.org/gallery2.

We appreciate everyone's patience while we sort this out.

There is Adventure in Sound!

Hey, everybody, just a quick note about the podcast.

First of all, it's NOT dead.  It's merely resting.  We're streamlining our archiving process, making a few tough decisions, and listening to your feedback. 

When will it be back?  That's tough to say.  ARTC is an all-volunteer organization, and so when paying work calls we must all answer and that pushes back timelines like woah.  Ballpark estimate is within six months.  Sooner if we can manage it, later if we can't.  Don't delete your bookmarks or your RSS feed, keep checking back.

You can also keep current on all things ARTC by subscribing to our public email list.  You can do that at www.artc.org.  Currently it's powered by Yahoo Groups, although we're working on having that hosted on our own site, too.  Feel free to go ahead and subscribe to the email list, though, and we'll let you know when the new system is ready.  It's low-volume, but packed with cool stuff about audio drama.

I also want to thank those of you who wrote in with your feedback regarding the reasons why we went on hiatus in the first place.  Those comments are at the forefront of why I'm stepping up the schedule to come back and they're also influencing our production schedule for new studio releases as well as our podcast programming.  If anybody else wishes to sound off you can leave your comment here or you can write to us at podcast@artc.org.

So fear not.  Things change, we grow, audio drama isn't going anywhere, and it'll be back before you know it.

There is Adventure in Sound!

Folks, just a very quick word to let you know where we've been lately.

The ARTC podcast is on an indefinite hiatus.  The reasons for this are as follows:

1) The time.  The ARTC podcast has been taking time away from other projects.  After much deliberation, it has been decided to give that time back to those projects for the time being.
2) The cost.  The ARTC podcast had two purposes when we envisioned it.  The first was to expose a wider audience to audio drama, letting people know that it was still going on and letting people who had never heard of it know it existed in the first place.  The second reason was to try to encourage sales of our studio recordings on CD or by download at Audible.com.  A recent survey of our sales records has indicated that this second purpose is not being met.  As much as we'd love to be able to give away our stuff for free all the time, it's just not possible right now.
3) The audience.  You folks are great, but...well, I hate to say it, but there's not enough of you.  If our weekly hits were triple what they are now I'd probably keep it going despite the time and expense, but they aren't.

Now the good news.
1) We do have plans to come back.  Expect artcpodcast.org to disappear in the coming months and expect podcast.artc.org to redirect to our main website.  This blog page will go away to be replaced by something completely different.
2) We are selecting a variety of our best recordings to allow folks to continue to find them on artc.org.  Look for that soon.
3) We do have plans for new podcast content.  We want to include the live performances, which we are very proud of since we're one of the only radio theatre groups in America who perform live at all, but we also want to have some podcast-only material.  We have some serialized adventures we'd love to bring you and we also have another idea that I'm going to keep under wraps so someone else doesn't steal it...but it's really cool if I do say so myself.  ;)

You can write to us at podcast AT artc DOT org if you have any comments about the hiatus, our previous work, or audio drama in general.

So anyway, thanks everybody for listening for this last year-plus.  Remember, ARTC isn't going away.  You can still buy our CDs at www.artc.org or download our material from Audible.com.  You can also come see us live...our next show will be at the Stage Door Players in Dunwoody and we'll be bringing you The Man Who Traveled in Elephants by Robert A. Heinlein.  That's going to be on Saturday, April 26 at 8:00pm and we'll have our special musical guest Juliana Finch!

There is Adventure in Sound!

Hey, just to let everyone know, I've been forced to go to 'moderated comments' which means that if anyone posts a comment I have to approve it before it will be made visible to the public.  Not a lot of folks are using the comments feature so far, but I hope they'll start.

You can blame your friendly neighborhood comment spammer for this change.  Sixteen messages all at once tipped the balance.

Just a message to inform you that the Show notes for Podcast #22 have been corrected. Twice. I apologize for the misinformation, but there was some confusion as to which shows actually were presented, and I was not in possession of all the facts.

 

 - rwz