We've Discovered Soundcloud is Great!

Hi everyone,

We hope that you've enjoyed listening to the Arthur Smith podcast so far, it was a lot of fun to make, and even surprisingly pretty fun to edit this one.

Sine we've got a little xmas break at the moment from all of the various other things that happen in our lives, we're using the opportunity to catch up on some much needed lockin admin. I know admin doesn't sound very exciting, but it turns out it totally is!

One of the major problems we have is with content hosting. Being both poor and talented can make for a rough ride when you've got hours and hours of great material but no good free hosting site to make it available on. Since we started doing podcasts we'd been using podbean.com as i'm sure you know. Unfortunately, when it comes to industry standards and portfolios and things, the professional opinion of podbean is '.....what's podbean? everybody uses soundcloud" So with that in mind, we've moved out content hosting over to soundcloud now and it's pretty much excellent. We haven't discovered all of the minute details of it yet, but it looks much more slick and professional, plus it makes it easier for you to download or stream your favourite comedy fun.

The only problem with it (we experienced this with podbean too) is that you can only upload a limited amount. The limit on soundcloud is about 120 minutes, which should just about cover this arthur smith interview plus two podcasts. But once we've done that, we're going to have to start deleting stuff, meaning there'll be no place online to find the lock in archived back catalogue.

So with that in mind, we'd really appreciate it if an anonymous donor could sponsor us 500 euros so that we can afford to buy Soundcloud Pro for a year and enjoy unlimited content uploading.

Thank you

Yours expectantly
The lock in

P.S. Here's the Arthur Smith soundcloud link. Even if you've listened to it once it's worth trying this too, the experience is much funnier when you enjoy it through a better online media player:

  -  http://soundcloud.com/thelockin/arthur-smith