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

Welcome Lock In Fans

Hi everyone,

This is the very first post of our new blog for the lock in. Things in lock in land started moving at an incredible speed, and we wanted to start cataloguing the process of the show before we got too far ahead of ourselves.

For anyone happening upon this blog not familiar with the show, it is a student radio show broadcast live and online on bailriggfm.co.uk. Two Lancaster students - Tom Dransfield and Ryan McCann, talk, laugh and joke through the night (for at least 5 hours) at midnight on thursdays. It has best been described as "the hilarious conversations of two affable idiots". Condensed 40 minute podcasts of each show are available here: http://thelockin.podbean.com/

We've already seen the first series come and go this year before we broke up for our summer hiatus. We briefly hung up the show with great sadness to do our own thing for the summer. Over that time we promised the listeners a weekly or bi-weekly podcast update from our back catalogue of shows. Unfortunately, due to some heinous oversight, we forgot that we were both incredibly lazy and neglected to stay true to this promise. This tragic podcast void looked set to continue until we were offered the chance to air a podcast each week for the digital channel radiofreebrighton.org.uk Since then, we have had a new drive and obligation to keep up to date with the weekly podcast. At the moment they are still airing the original 3 podcasts that we completed in June, but as of the 12th of September we will all be treated to a brand new podcast of our now ancient 4th show.


That's essentially most of the current updates from us at the moment. Keep vigilant, we've got some pretty big things planned