{"id":1124,"date":"2013-09-22T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T15:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2013-09-22T16:06:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T15:06:55","slug":"icast-pro-voice-record-pro-and-ds106-radio-an-ios-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/icast-pro-voice-record-pro-and-ds106-radio-an-ios-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"iCast Pro, Voice Record Pro and DS106 Radio an iOS workflow."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAfter a couple of days fighting Nicecast and talking to the Skype lady I took a wee break today. I remembered Scottlo had blogged about<\/a> a new iOS app for broadcasting to icecast and though I’d give it a spin. The app is iCast Pro.
\nI had occasionally used papaya but this has been discontinued. The developer has developed a new app KoalaSan<\/a> which looks great, especially as it handels audio from other apps and records<\/strong> broadcasts. Unfortunately it does not support mp3. I konw that that will not work on EDUtalk<\/a> where I do most of my broadcasting so I put my money on iCast Pro.
\nThe setup is straighforward once you note the gotcha from Scottlo’s post. you need to choose icecast as a server in the settings, the icons are not, imo, easy to spot.
\nI made a couple of quick tests on both EDUtalk and ds106 radio and the app works with both. You can setup multiple stations.
\nThe interface is a wee bit distracting, full of cogs but most of the buttons are clear.<\/p>\n

The next bit I wanted to figure out was how to record the broadcast. I had looked into this before with out much success. i have two apps on my iphone that support background recording, Audio Memos and Voice Record Pro<\/a>. i gave them a quick test and the quality was a lot better in Voice Record Pro so when for that for my main test:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Opened Voice Record Pro and started a recording<\/li>\n
  2. Switched to iCast Pro and started broadcasting.<\/li>\n
  3. When I finished I stopped broadcasting and returned to Voice Record and stopped recording.<\/li>\n
  4. In Voice Record I converted the file to mp3 and uploaded that to dropbox.<\/li>\n
  5. Opened the mp3 in audacity and trimmed the start, exported to mp3.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I didn’t try to adjust the audio in audacity at all.<\/p>\n

    Here it is:
    \n\n    http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/iCast-Pro-Voice-Recorder-HD.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

    download iCast-Pro-Voice-Recorder-HD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After a couple of days fighting Nicecast and talking to the Skype lady I took a wee break today. I remembered Scottlo had blogged about a new iOS app for broadcasting to icecast and though I’d give it a spin. The app is iCast Pro. I had occasionally used papaya but this has been discontinued. … Continue reading “iCast Pro, Voice Record Pro and DS106 Radio an iOS workflow.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64,134,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-ds106radio","category-podcast"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-i8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}