SPN Podfic/Podbook: Important Angel Business (Sam/Gabriel)

[alchemynerd.livejournal.com]

Title: Important Angel Business byentangled_now 
Readers:alchemynerd /alchemynerd andimmortal_kat 
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Sam/Gabriel
Summary: Sam has no idea how Gabriel got his number.

Reader's Note: My sister was down the other day, and so, I "drafted" her into recording this podfic with me.  We had way too much fun doing this.  There may have been wine involved.... *g*  My sis' first recording!  Yay!

Download Links (megaupload):
mp3 with sound effects (cell phone sounds) [17.1 MB, 0:25:00]
mp3 with no effects [15.9 MB, 0:23:10]

ETA:  Some Podbook Versions.
m4b podbook with sound effects (cell phone sounds) [ 11.3 MB, 0:25:00]
m4b podbook with no effects [ 10.5 MB, 0:23:10]

5+3+3+(1+3)+0=15 for Alchemynerd
5+10+3+(1+3)+0=22 for Immortal_kat

Comments

[crinklysolution.livejournal.com]

Snagging...right...now!

[alchemynerd.livejournal.com]

Hope you like it!

[reena_jenkins]

Oooh, this looks awesome - snagging! And, congrats to your sister - welcome to podficcing ^__________^

[alchemynerd.livejournal.com]

It's a really funny story. I almost died laughing the first time I read this fic (I think it warrants a 'do not drink while reading' warning). Hopefully, the humour will translate well into the recording.

[cybel]

You had me at entangled_now! I love her work, and her Sam/Gabriel are among my favorites.

I'll work on archiving and a podbook in the morning. It's a bit short for a 'book, but I must have one, so everyone else will, too. ;-)

Meanwhile, thanks for recording, and I've made your sister her reader tag.

[alchemynerd.livejournal.com]

Her stories are fantastic! There needs to be a master list somewhere that is being crossed off as they are made into podfic *wink*

Thanks for making the podbook! I wondered if I should make one; but then made an arbitrary 30 mins as the cut-off. But 25 mins is close, right? right?

I don't own an I-pod myself, so I ask out of curiosity; does the format offer advantages for shorter stories? (I know more about the format as it relates to long stories, e.g. chaptering.) I suppose at the very least you get cover art, which is always cool.

[cybel]

I used to podbook stories as short as 5 minutes, but there were many fewer of them, of course. And iTunes didn't allow you to mark mp3s as audiobooks at the time, nor mark them for auto-bookmarking (but only on an individual computer, and only on a file by file basis).

It drove me crazy to have podfics floating about with my music files, but now that I can have them all in the Books folder, and bookmarkable, the need has indeed decreased, though many listeners don't know about/want to bother with making changes to every podfic they download, and others don't use iTunes. As for covers, they can be added to mp3s as well as m4bs.

So, to actually answer your question, the podbook format's benefits are to file all your podfics in the Books folder of iTunes rather than with music, to make them auto-bookmarkable without having to adjust each individual file in iTunes, to combine separate files into one (or more depending on the overall length) and to provide cover art if the reader hasn't already done so. :-)

I'm running slow and late today--OMG headache!--but I'll get your work done asap.

Oh, and you can see all of the podfics of entangled_now's stories , under her original pseud Corona, here.

On closer look, I found her podfics were split between corona and entangled now, so I merged them here.

[alchemynerd.livejournal.com]

It's nice to hear that iTunes has made some useful improvements. Thanks for explaining things. The organizational ease of having the m4bs sounds awesome. I can relate to the desire to have podfics separate from music files. Before, I used a Sansa View, and it was such a pain to keep things organised.

Sorry to hear about your headache; hope it passes quickly. There's no rush. Thanks so much for all the work you do on this archive!

[alchemynerd.livejournal.com]

My computer did not implode when I tried to make podbooks. \0/
I've edited the post to include links to the m4b versions. Cheers!

[cybel]

http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/important-angel-business
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/important-angel-business-no-fx
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/important-angel-business-no-fx-audiobook
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/important-angel-business-audiobook

:-)

[alchemynerd.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[emilianadarling.livejournal.com]

Snagging as we speak! Very excited for it! WELCOME to your sister! :D

[dodificus.livejournal.com]

This was great, I liked the phone sound effects and you couldn't tell at all that wine had been involved in the recording:)

[alchemynerd.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed! Haha, the wine was much more obvious in the unedited version... a suspicious amount of giggling was to be found ;-)

[kdheart.livejournal.com]

I think I must have listened to this fic about 10 times now (if not more). It's surprisingly effective at making me feel better no matter the circumstances and I'm pretty sure you guys are just as responsible for that as entangled_now is.

Thank you for doing a great job on a really funny story and for giving me something to keep me sane.