phpBB Weekly

I have just been informed that the episode files that I edited for phpBB Weekly #022 and #023 were overridden by TalkShoe’s own recording, despite the fact that my edited uploads were downloading from their servers yesterday. The episodes are supposed to begin and end with the phpBB Weekly theme music, not the little TalkShoe riff.

I am getting in touch with the folks at TalkShoe to find out what is wrong. I apologize for this inconvenience.

Update 7/9: I received a response from TalkShoe Technical Support. Due to a recent series of updates that they rolled out on their website, they found that the mechanism for editing/posting recorded episodes have broken. Because of this, they are currently editing and uploading episodes manually (I can imagine how horrible that must be!). I don’t like to wait for TalkShoe’s recording to be posted, instead preferring to post my edited recording first. Unfortunately, now that their end is being done manually, my uploads have been overwritten. Unfortunately, I don’t have a local copy of the edited episodes because I recently had to clear up some space on my hard drive for a different project.
I have asked TalkShoe if they can try to see if they have a copy of the original files that I uploaded, and hopefully this will be fixed on their end by the next live show (although I have an alternate solution in mind for recording that should avoid this hassle). I’ll keep posting updates as I receive information.

Update 7/10: Unfortunately, TalkShoe does not keep an archive of uploaded episodes, however they have been made aware of the issue and have put in a feature request so that uploaded episodes are not overwritten by the service. In the meantime, I have planned out a minor change to the recording process which should prevent this sort of error from recurring. I will be reuploading phpBB Weekly #022 and #023 myself later today in order to restore the theme music (although the superior sound quality will be lost), but this should be fixed for phpBB Weekly #024. After that, I’m off to Sacramento!