Comment from georg
Time August 1, 2010 at 2:59 pm

Very nice episode! It is entertaining and most informative.

Funny, you mentioned the discouraging feedback exchange – I listened to several episodes of your podcast, and they were all of high quality.

I think, the interview partners are always very well chosen – there was not an episode, where the guest was a problem.

To put this comment into a context: in the CRE podcast I noticed a few episodes, where the interview partners were, hm, suboptimal, because they were not that eloquent or passed on some topics (e.g. synthesizers, digital audio, Javascript episodes).

A few suggestions, what you can improve:
- a voting system on the omegataupodcast website, e.g. like at the one at kuechenradio.org (using the scores, they have a very useful section ‘unsere Besten’)
- a new version of your intro-jingle/tagline – well, this is of course a matter of taste
- ogg vorbis audio versions and feed (for the avant-garde listeners ;))

Comment from admin
Time August 1, 2010 at 7:10 pm

Hi Georg,

thank you very much for your nice words; as per your suggestions:

> a voting system on the omegataupodcast website, e.g.
> like at the one at kuechenradio.org (using the scores,
> they have a very useful section ‘unsere Besten’)

this is a very nice idea. I will see if i can find a WordPress plugin
that does it.

> a new version of your intro-jingle/tagline – well, this is of
> course a matter of taste

hehe :) Is it the music you don’t like, or the wording of the tagline?

> ogg vorbis audio versions and feed (for the
> avant-garde listeners ;))

I am sorry I won’t do this in the near future. This will take up double
the webspace, doubling my monthly payment to libsyn :-(

Thanks for your input!

Markus

Comment from georg
Time November 21, 2010 at 9:42 am

> ‘hehe :) Is it the music you don’t like, or the wording of the tagline?’

Well, both ;) The opening sound (‘flush’) is a bit too much, on ‘Omega Tau’ there is some reverb (or something like that?) and the tagline sounds a bit ‘cheesy’ in my ears (besides, not everybody uses headphones …). This makes the jingle a bit amateurish.

No offense – I hope the comment is not too harsh.

When I think about it – many podcasts I know have some opening jingle/music but no tagline.

Comment from admin
Time November 21, 2010 at 11:49 am

> This makes the jingle a bit amateurish.

I think I know what you’re saying. I maybe got carried away a bit with effects and stuff – I don’t have much of a chance to play with effects etc. in the rest of the podcast :-)
I don’t have any cycles right now to do something about this, but I will keep it in mind.

We do have a tagline: “science and engineering in your headphones”.

Markus