June 09, 2005
Podcast Automator

Now I have a good reason to get Tiger.

From The Unofficial Apple Weblog, an automator workflow (it does all the steps for you) to create a podcast. I've been doing the hard way. Now we can give a copy of the podcast to the interviewee before they walk out the door.

According to the blog poster:

Basically it launches Quicktime Pro 7, starts a new audio recording using the audio-in device you have set up in your System Preferences, waits for you to click "Continue" to stop the recording, and then automatically imports the file into iTunes, converts it into an mp3, and changes its name to "podcast."

Direct link to the zip file (28kb)

And how do we improve it? Have it change the name and the id3 tags for a start... post it to the web, create the RSS enclosure...

Posted by Dave at June 09, 2005 12:22 AM