I’ve been playing with podcasting here, for the last few weeks. And I didn’t like the time commitment my set up would require. I definitely appreciate even more, what you did for those 100+ episodes!

But if this idea works for you, I’ll be trying it out.

Oh, I see you have some podcasts made with the new set up! I’ll have to listen to see how you like it.

(I’ve been out of the loop for over a week, cuz my spare PC set up to download your BitTorrent feed, died on me over a week ago. And I had no replacement Azureus box, and no time to set one up, till now.)

If you could just restrain your desire to edit, you can still use a better program live. Your thinking is similar to your Shuffle choice. You could have bought a Muvo N200 and put a piece of masking tape over the LED display if you wanted less features.

Compressors, limiters etc.. can be helpful in a live situation. Having said that; I noticed that Audio Hijack Pro does have VST support, so you can find some fairly decent free VST plugins if you search around the net. The best thing to do is join a forum and ask there what is best.

My main concern about AHP is the question of stability, also it ought to have more tracks (in case you ever want to edit again )

I looked at Cubase and don’t see how it is going to do what I want. Mostly, I’m capturing things from other programs so how does Cubase fit in there? Audio Hijack Pro does exactly what I need in capturing the audio and then chugging it straight to MP3. Rather than get a better editor, I’m liking the idea of not needing an editor at all.

A simple media player that perhaps using quicktime as it’s engine could work – although I like the idea of using the shuffle..

At present I use MixCast Live, iTunes and WinAmp to try and get a good working environment. There really is a big market out there for some kind of live mixer that can mix multiple channels in real-time. Basically hook everything up, then “mix” the podcast live..