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Sending recorded audio files from remote site to studio

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ChiefOperator

Folks-

My station wishes to have a local meteorologist record audio from his office, send it to our station, and then air them. I've been asked to get this set-up. Given that the audio files are small :)30 or so), my plan is to have him record the segments in Audacity and then email them to the studio. We'll play them on our digital cart machine.

Question 1: before I set this up, does anyone have a better/more efficient way of doing this?

Question 2: for those of you sending audio by email, have any of you evaluated this "VoiceMail" program.
The program is an integrated recorder and email program. It allows you to record and email using just one program and interface--would definitely save some steps.

http://vancooten.net/

To view the product, click on the American flag (for english), click on "Products" and then click on "VoiceMail."

Thanks!
 
Some e-mail systems can choke easily, even on a short .wav uncompressed file. For voice only reports, a good MP3 file should work fine. Make sure, though, that your weatherman has a good mike.
 
What might make more sense is to use an FTP server. He uploads the forecasts to the FTP server and then you download them as needed.
 
LA_Guy said:
What might make more sense is to use an FTP server. He uploads the forecasts to the FTP server and then you download them as needed.
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I've done it both by email and FTP. Both work fine. It really doesn’t take much time to deal with an email attachment, but you have to remember to do it. The advantage of FTP is many automation programs can play directly from the FTP site. As long as your weather guy overwrites the existing file so your automation knows what to look for, then it works great. The down side is when the weather guy accidentally creates a new file name and posts it to the server. Then the automation will play an old file.

If you do it via email, you have some degree of human intervention (you could with FTP too, if you care to do it). That human interface occasionally notices that the forecast for 6" of snow seems odd in July. You may have different results.
 
Sign up for free account with a file host everyone gets the access info to the account if you need a list of some good file hosts let me know
 
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