Cinch: Record podcasts from your phone, no signup necessary

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Cinch: Record podcasts from your phone, no signup necessary

by Brad Linder Feb 22nd 2008

Want to start a podcast, but don't know the first thing about audio engineering, web hosting, or RSS feeds? Blogtalkradio's newest service makes podcasting a cinch, which is probably why they call the service Cinch.

All you have to do is a call 646-200-0000 from any phone and start talking. Cinch will record your conversation and create a feed with your call as an MP3 enclosure. You never even need to visit the Cinch web page or sign up for the service. So how do you find your feed? Simple, just add your phone number to the end of the Cinch URL. For example, if your phone number is 555-253-4756, your feed would be published at http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/5552534756.

Now, the audio quality isn't going to be amazing. We're talking about recording telephone calls here, after all. If you're serious about podcasting, you're going to want to get a decent microphone, some audio editing software, and so forth. But if you just want to record short interviews on the go and you don't have any other equipment handy, Cinch could be a lifesaver.

And if you're worried about sharing your phone number with the general public through the URL, you can always use FeedBurner to republish your feed with a different URL.

[via Scripting News]

Tags: blogtalkradio, cinch, podcast, podcasting

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

todd lucier said 5:02PM on 2-23-2008

This is interesting. The missing link in creating online media is one stop posting and feed generation. Although this tool makes it easy to post, having one place to bring together all the feeds of photo, video and audio is the missing link in a truely significant expansion in the use of these type of services.

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