Quote Originally Posted by podcastcoach View Post
The problem with free, is its not a very good business model. In the last 10 years I've seen NUMEROUS companies try the free model. I've tried it at the grocery store. It didn't work. I tried it at the gas station. It didn't work. It turns out that companies that stay in business, provide good service, and good support, need to charge for it. Case in point, I've tried three different skype recording software. In doing less than 10 episodes with each, they all had errors and ate the interview. Thankfully they were tests.
Paying for things that you can get for free or just do yourself IS the bad business model.

Your skype point is a great example of that. If I want to record a Skype call I’m not going to spend money on a new program (and add one more step, and point of failure, to my workflow), I’m just going to use the mixer and DAW I already have.

As for libsyn it would a waist of money for me to pay them 20+ bucks a month for “media transcoding.” I can do that myself for free.

Also, I don’t sugest using whatever free “solution” you can find, that’s pretty silly. I’m talking about using stuff like Google Analytics. Sure it’s free and you have to do a little extra work to track podcasts, but it is legit. Fortune 500 companies use it.

I’m pretty hands on though. I like to know how everything works and have as much control over it as I can. Libsyn is just not for me. It would be a great solution somebody that just wants to focus on the creative side and not worry about the technical side, or just doesn’t have the time to be as hands on.