Updated graphics for With A Voice Like This Christmas EP

This episode’s topics

The reasons for changes to the EP art, Podcast play and marketing by design, recap of the week and Comments from the Podcast Gallery.
I have

• Had all 6 songs on the EP played on different podcasts
• The graphics for the CD completed
• The graphics uploaded to BuyMusicDirect.com
• 5 Podcasts that played my music 6 times in the past two days
• The final graphics for the cover and label of the CD
• CD Artwork
• The six songs I’m putting out as an EP
• A good idea on where I’m headed with the ‘value add’ as it pertains to the CD and how I will price it

Podcasts that have played my music this week

• Yarnspinners Tales – Dec 16, Traditional Christmas 2007 – A Round for the Holidays
• Journey Inside My Mind – Dec 21, JIMM 099 – Running the Gamut – The Wassail Song
• Top of the Podsafes – Dec 21, Volume 105 – Christmas Angel
• Sundown Lounge Podcast – Dec 21, Sundown Lounge 124 – Deck The Halls
• Mike’s Hot Dish – Dec 21, Mike’s Hotdish 23 – Christmas Special 03 – Christmas Angel
• Girls Night In – Dec 20, Episode 014 – Christmas Angel
• The Acapodcast – Dec 20, Acapodcast #41 Christmas Special – The Wassail Song & We Three Kings

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Episode 039 – Day 53 – Weekend Wrap Up originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 23 December 2007. Tweet This

This episode of With A Voice Like This:

Why issues prevented this episode from being recorded live, Recap of the “No Network Weekend”, recap of the week, one Comment from the Podcast Gallery and:

I have

• A nice trip up to Luxemburg, WI tomorrow for a show at the Northbrook Country Club
• A new synch cable for my Treo 650
• A new Car Charger for my Treo 650
• A new blog category of Podcast so readers can sort for entries with a podcast in them
• Gone back and added the Podcast category to all previous entries with a podcast
• Gotten a lot further on the song I Saw Three Ships
• A special plan for tomorrow’s (Tuesday’s) update

Podcasts that have played my music this week

The G2B@Podcast – Dec 13, show #9 – Deck the Halls
CaffiNation – Dec 13, CaffiNation 189 – Deck the Halls
Ikthuscast – Dec 13, Ikthuscast 39 – The Coventry Carol
Bernie’s World – Dec 12, Episode 65 – We Three Kings – and a great “berating’ of me.
Washington TravelCast – Dec 9, Episode 87 – Deck The Halls

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Episode 035 – Day 46 – Weekend Wrap Up originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 16 December 2007. Tweet This

In this episode:

Episode 30 celebration, This week in a lettuce wrap, changes made to the website, addition of an About page, new weekly feature, the past couple day’s gigs, Guerrilla updates and the upcoming week’s schedule, Comments from the Podcast Gallery.

This Week’s I have‘s

• An About page for the website
• Another song on Podsafe Music Network and BuyMusicDirect.com, bring the total to six, half way there
• A good idea of what I’m going to do with the section of I Saw Three Ships that has the ambient noise in it
• A complete version of the Wassail song
• A great idea for I saw Three Ships
• A couple of great gigs coming up
• The last few songs on their way
• The second usage of my music on a podcast because of the Podsafe Music Network
• Released Deck the Halls at Podsafe Music Network and BuyMusicDirect.com [EDIT: site no longer exists]
• Ordered the last four songs from pdinfo.com for the CD
• Had to switch one of the four songs for the CD because it wasn’t available for purchase
• A cool caroling gig this Saturday night, opening for Carnie and Wendy Wilson, of Wilson Phillips fame
• I have my final four songs for the album and will order them tomorrow
• A completed copy of The Coventry Carol to be put out on PMN and BuyMusicDirect.com
• An almost completed other carol (I’m not spoiling the surprise on the Podcast)
• An almost complete copy of the Coventry Carol ready to upload
• My music being played on The Indigo Room tonight (Monday)

Podcasts that played my music this week:

Ed’s Mixed Bag – Dec 8, Jam and Jazz – Show #113 – Deck The Halls

The Indigo Room: Creating Our Reality - Dec 7, Episode 55 – A Round for the Holidays

Cultural Soup – Dec 6, Episode 94 – The Coventry Carol

Ikthuscast [Edit: site no longer exists] – Dec 6, Ikthuscast 37 – Deck The Halls

The Indigo Room: Creating Our Reality - Dec 3, Episode 54 – Christmas Angel

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Episode 030 – Day 39 – Weekend Wrap Up originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 9 December 2007. Tweet This

Topics for this episode of With A Voice Like This:

Marketing my music, Why SellMusicDirect.com is such a good fit for me and this project, Where you can find my music, increase of Site Traffic due to StumbleUpon.com, Country comparison of site hits, One last playing of We Three Kings can Comments From the Podcast Gallery.

Links from the show:

SellMusicDirect.com – The artist’s interface for creating a CD project

BuyMusicDirect.com – The Consumer side of the CD project

My profile on the Podsafe Music Network – Where you can hear my music and use it if you’re a Podcaster

StumbleUpon.com – a Social bookmarking website

I have

• A new badge to link directly to the search results of my name at BuyMusicDirect.com
• An exponential increase of website traffic due to StumbleUpon.com
• Been dugg on Digg.com (a personal Hall of Fame moment)
• Music available for purchase online
• The finished copy of We Three Kings
• Posted the copy on the Podsafe Music Network
• The first verse done of We Three Kings and will probably have it completed for tomorrow night’s update.
• My PD copyrighted copies of 8 songs
• A start on We Three Kings and Coventry Carol
• A great gig tonight (Wednesday)
• Eight (8) Public Domain copyright songs on their way to me, should arrive tomorrow
• A poll to let my listeners/readers/Podcast Gallery help decide what will go on the album
• A list of the rest of my music to choose from
• The ability to poll and see if there are specific songs people would like to see on the CD

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Episode 024 – Day 32 – Weekend Wrapup originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 2 December 2007. Tweet This

This weekend’s wrap up covered the week on Christmas Angel, which is now out on my Podsafe Music Network profile and my performance over the weekend as well. You can listen to Christmas Angel, the version that’s available to podcaster’s to use on their shows, jsut not as high a quality because it’s in mono and the version on the Podsafe Music network is in stereo. and of course, Comments from the Podcast Gallery.

I have

• Caught up with the blog and podcast postings I needed to do
• Fixed the muffled sound I was getting to the point that I find it acceptable
• An almost completed song that once done, It will be Tweeted that it’s out!
• A homemade Lemon meringue pie waiting for after the show.
• Relieved some of the pressure I’ve put on myself
• An edit ready recording of Christmas Angel
• A mixed version of Christmas Angel available online at the Podsafe Music Network

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Episode 018 – Day 25 Weekend Wrap up originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 25 November 2007. Tweet This

Day 17 topics:

First Caroling gig of the season, the idea of a “Gig Map” for this blog where I’m appearing and here’s the Coder’s challenge:

Using the Google Maps API and an XML file ( basically, an adapted KML file) that would list the gig’s information in a chronological order with aging map markers and a indicator of some type of whether the gig was a public gig or a private gig, with these parameters.

Markers

• Over thirty days away – first type (color) of marker
• one week to thirty days away – second type of marker
• Under one week away – third type of marker
• Day of gig – fourth type of marker
• Past gig – drops off the gig map

Two types of gig

• Open to the Public – shows address in list
• Private performance – only shows Gig date and time, no address in list

Here’s an example of my XML File I built, it contains actual gigs performed two years ago, as an example of the type of information for the map.
I have

• A better guide for the song Christmas Angel
• Two shock mounts for my condenser microphones purchased.
• A new e-mail address contact@withavoicelikethis.com
• A much better way to lay down tracks that makes it easier for me to sing
• A way of being able to do post production that makes sense to me
• A way to remix the song A Round for the Holidays
• A computer issue I get to work out or see if it simply disappears (not a bad thing, just something to be done)
• Some advice on how to resolve the issue and keep it from happening again
• A renewed appreciation of equipment that works with no issues
• Resolved the memory issue with my computer from yesterday
• An interview tomorrow night on the Indigo Room: Creating Our Reality

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Episode 013 – Day 17 – Weekend Update and Coder’s Challenge originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 17 November 2007. Tweet This

Wrap up Topics:

1. With a little help from my friends
2. Working the Internet setup
3. Branding and Logo
4. Revisiting my schedule and tasks
5. Comments from the podcast gallery
6. Upcoming personal appearances and surprises
7. Q&A

I have:

• My first Personal Hall of Fame moment – Susan Reynold’s Tweet about me
• My New Logo
• A knowledge that I should avoid recording on Thursdays
• A song posted out at the Podsafe Music Network
• A new idea on how to do the weekend updates.
• A better understanding of how my surroundings affect the recording I’m doing.
• A new method for recording
• A new Feed for the website and podcast
• The method for making sure I get over my cold as quickly as possible
• A TalkShoe account
• A SellMusicDirect.com Pro account
• A Podsafe Music Network account
• A fairly well laid out plan
• My first complete podcast episode

I think I’ll add the tagline to my website’s title… (c;

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Episode 006 – Day 11 – Weekend Wrap up originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 11 November 2007. Tweet This

I have a song I wrote, a Christmas a cappella doo wop song. I like and sing with a group and they like it. I’ve been trying to get it professionally recorded for a couple of years now… it hasn’t happened.

I have low level professional recording equipment, I’m no recording engineer, the self recording I made of the Christmas song years ago is okay, but only to give people an idea. I’d like to get a recording out ther for people to hear… and buy.

I have a website, in fact, you’re reading from it right now. I have had quite a few sites with limited success for different groups, etc. I’d like too see more success there.

I have a podcast with a small, loyal following… it’s about voice. I’d like to see that audience grow, but can’t seem to get past a leveling off I’ve just hit.

I have a lot of frustrations based on all the previous ‘I have’s…Feeling like they’re not reaching their potential and spreading me pretty thin in too many directions.

I have had an idea… instead of working in different directions with all these, it makes sense to have them work altogether.

I have decided to self-record a CD’s worth of a cappella holiday music, including two original pieces, use a revamped blog and podcast to track the progress, market the end product, and sell the end product.

I have given myself the month of November to get it to that point.

I have a lot to learn.

I have a lot of support from friends.

I have an undiscovered success.

(And now)

I have a format for a weekly summary.

I have a beginning…

Want to come along and help me discover?

Day 02 – I have…A beginning originally appeared on With A Voice Like This on 2 November 2007. Tweet This