I have been looking for a new theme to use for my podcast, the Web Hosting Show. I have been using the same awesome theme (which I still have much love for) but after so many years, I am getting the itch to try something new. Really want something with a little less techno beat and something more “rock” related. Think I have narrowed it down to these two choices:
Which one do you like more? Found them both at PremiumBeat.com, which I am really looking forward to seeing how well working with them will be. Thus far, for the budget podcaster - they seem to have the cheapest deals for royalty free music.
This is one of those programs you just happen to stumble upon but you know you have to at least give it a shot. Mario Paint Composer allows you to create your own Nintendo inspired tune using the old SNES Mario Paint-ish layout. Even if you don’t have a musical skill in your entire body, it is fun just to drag and drop things onto the board and then hit play.
It is both Mac and Windows friendly too. Just download, unzip and you’ll be off on your own music creating adventure. Here is an example video I found via the ‘ol YouTube:
Taking the link shortening service to a new level, TinySong allows you to type in the name of any song and get a shortened link to it to share with others. For example, lets say I knew you were in the mood for some Van Halen (with David Lee Roth of course, Sammy Hagar is not welcomed here). Now I go to TinySong.com and type in “Jump”. The number two result there is “Jump” by Van Halen. Click on that and your done.
Of course this makes sharing song recomendations REALLY easy. This is all powered by Grooveshark, which is an awesome service in it own right that is well worth checking out too. Go give TinySong a test to see if it can pull up the song you have stuck in your head right now…
Now it isn’t often that I want to take the audio track from a video on YouTube, but the other day I found a collection of wrestling themes I really like to have a few selections from. So to take the music from the uploads, I found a tool that will get it done.
The FLV to MP3 Online Converter is the tool you want to keep handy. So far it is still fairly quick with it’s conversion and when it is done doing that voodoo that it does so well it will spit out a .mp3 file for you to save, edit and rename as your own.
Want an easy way to create a simple mp3 mix tape for others? For those of you who may not know, mix tapes we’re what people passed around before all this music downloading and fancy mp3 stuff took place.
Now it has a new Web 2.0 look and feel with Muxtape. I have yet to create one of my own (might make a best of the Web Hosting Show?) but after listening to a few of the others this is a great way to get a sample of a lot of different music.
Over the past few weeks, I have been considering changing the Web Hosting Show’s theme to something different. I’m getting the itch to get something new in there - but the more I search, the luckier I consider myself that I found my first theme when I did.
It seems like no matter where I look or who I talk to there is always a catch or several catches that just scare this old country boy off. I just replied to an E-mail conversation I started with with Mark of PodcastThemes.com, letting him know I’ll probably look to go in a different direction just because of all the loopholes and agreements that must be made. I don’t blame him or anybody else for it. It is their creation and they want to make sure they get plenty of credit for it. Just seems like there should be an easier way.
I want a McDonalds for podcast themes.
I have also considered finding an independent artist that wouldn’t mind me using their song (or doing a song for me) for some free pluggage and a paycheck. The only problem with that is I would have to start listening to song after song till I found something I liked.
So this is an open offer to anybody who wants to take me up on it. Want to do a rock theme for the Web Hosting Show podcast? Let me know and I’ll do my best to make it worth your wild.
I have been looking for a new theme to use for my podcast, the Web Hosting Show. I have been using the same awesome theme (which I still have much love for) but after so many years, I am getting the itch to try something new. Really want something with a little less techno beat and something more “rock” related. Think I have narrowed it down to these two choices:
This is one of those programs you just happen to stumble upon but you know you have to at least give it a shot. 
Want an easy way to create a simple mp3 mix tape for others? For those of you who may not know, mix tapes we’re what people passed around before all this music downloading and fancy mp3 stuff took place. 
