Rather a Story

So this year I took part in amplificathon's Podbang Challenge, which was to record a podfic for someone else, of a minimum of 20k words. My recipient was tacit, and perversely did NOT request SPN as one of the fandoms she wanted. ;)

Luckily, I had this on stand-by, by nwhepcat, which is a gorgeous story and was a hell of a challenge to read. I'm not sure I fully did it justice, but it was a wild ride the whole way. Plus, it allowed me to swear in my native French-Canadian. So.

Title: These Songs of Freedom
Author: nwhepcat
Reader: ratherastory
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: R (Xander/OFC)
Summary: Xander seeks a slayer in war-ravaged Liberia. But what he finds is two young women who change his life -- and a whole new relationship with the past.
Link to text: These Songs of Freedom

Full Size: 68MB
Duration: 2:28:35
MP3 Download: http://podfic.jinjurly.com/audfiles/5201012162.zip
M4B Podbook: http://podfic.jinjurly.com/audfiles/2201012156.zip

So my beloved kitty Pan-Pan (one of four, and the heaviest of the lot at 19lbs) decided he wanted love RIGHTTHEHELLNOW as I was trying to edit my podbang recording last night. No idea how he did it, but I lost 45 minutes' worth of recording, and have been unsuccessful in getting it back. Luckily the mods were understanding about my cat-related mishap and gave me a few days to pull it all together again.

Gnarr.

I love my cats. I love my cats. I love my cats. I will repeat this until I believe it again.

Bad enough the number of times I've had to re-record over the sound of unearthly yowling from the next room. Argh.


Anyway, onward and upward.

I have a question for the podficcers on my flist. I've posted the same question to podfic_tips, but I figured I'd cover all my bases. :)

This is still hypothetical, but I'm hoping to record some multi-chapter affairs in the coming months. My question is, how does this work logistically? If I were thinking of it as a CD, or an album, I'd like each chapter to have its own numbered track (e.g. Chapter 1 = Track 1, Chapter 2 = Track 2, etc.). Except I CANNOT for the life of me figure out how to do that and have it be all in one place.

Can I record each chapter as a separate file and then somehow combine them?

I'm using GarageBand on my Mac, and I'm hoping this is just a case of Clueless Newbieism and that it's actually child's play to do it.

Can anyone help me out?

Okay, flist.

I'm toying with the idea of doing more podficcing next year. This year is all taken up with the Podbang, but once that's done I'd like to do something like a series of shorter podfics, maybe once a month or once every two weeks, depending on my time constraints and my level of inspiration.

So, in your opinion, what SPN fics out there are crying out to be podficced? (It would be preferable if the author in question is still online reasonably regularly, and/or has already given blanket permission for their stuff to be recorded, but don't let that limit you!)

I guess this is also a not-so-subtly disguised rec request. What have I missed lately while I've been frantically trying to finish up all my fic commitments?

This is for my own purposes, feel free to skip. My master list of projects is getting a bit unwieldy, so I'm just putting this down in order to make sure I have my ducks in a row.

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I don't know how many people on my flist are podficcers (anyone out there? Bueller?), but I figured it was worth the signal boost anyway. Spread the word!