I-Jingle Pro is an app that turns your iPad into a professional jingle/sample cart player. Easy to use controls let you either play up to 8 jingles simultaneously, cross fade 2 jingles, fade out the first jingle while starting the next or simply stop the first and start the next. So called 2nd touch settings allow you [...]

This tutorial takes a look at how to make enhanced podcasts with GarageBand. An ‘enhanced podcast’ is an audio podcast that can also contain images, chapter markers, hyperlinks, and artwork, synced to the audio. When an enhanced podcast is played on a compatible device, the additional information will be displayed in time with the audio podcast.

Media community Blubrry has its podcast publishing plugin for WordPress, PowerPress 4.0. The update adds support for the latest iTunes podcast specs and more. iTunes upgrades include: An updated iTunes image requirement — RGB 1400×1400 — throughout the plugin for better cover image quality throughout. “Feature Episode” that allow podcasters to designate a primary episode, which [...]

Developers have released Audacity 2.0, the latest version of the free digital audio workstation application. Some of the new features in Audacity 2.0 include: Many effects significantly improved, especially Equalization, Noise Removal and Normalize. Vocal Remover now included plus GVerb on Windows and Mac. VAMP analysis plug-ins now supported. Improved label tracks with Sync-Lock Tracks [...]

Apple today updated GarageBand for iOS, adding new collaboration and editing features for musicians, and social network sharing that could be useful for podcasters. Here are the highlights: GarageBand 1.2 introduces Jam Session, a feature that lets groups of people wirelessly connect their iOS devices to play instruments and record live music together. Jam Session automatically synchronizes the tempo, [...]

Blubrry has updated its PowerPress podcast publishing plugin for WordPress to version 3.0. Features: PowerPress offers HTML5 audio/video player with flash fallback and multi-channel/multi-category podcasting support. Adds Meta Marks a new feature that lets you link rich meta information, including audio, video, images, comments, etc. Customizable HTML5 audio/video-play icons. Auto Media Length Detection added for [...]

Developer Wooji Juice has introduced Hokusai – a free multitrack audio editor for iPhone or iPad: Record or import a track, and make it sound the way you want it to: not just trimming the ends, but full cut, copy, paste and delete, and a suite of filters and special effects available. Edit many tracks side-by-side, [...]

Developer Black Cat Systems has introduced Sound Byte – a $4.99 app for playing back sound bites on demand. According to the developers, Sound Byte was designed for: Radio, podcast and TV productions – have ads, announcements, songs and sound effects at your fingertips. Theater Productions – play any sound effect on cue. Sports Events [...]

Audiofile Engineering has updated its field recording iOS app, FIRe, to version 2. FIRe is designed to turn an iPhone or iPod touch into a professional-level portable audio recorder. Here’s what’s new in FIRe 2: Advanced editing suite with SmartEdits, Bezier fades, change gain, normalize, looping playback, regions and more Improved Transport screen with faster [...]

Blubrry has announced the release of an upgrade to its podcast plugin, PowerPress 2.0.

PowerPress lets users embed audio and video podcasts into their WordPress websites and create correctly formatted feeds for syndication.