File Hosting Now Available For Commentaries
One of the tricky things about submitting commentaries for listing here is that if you don't have a place to host the mp3 so it can be directly linked, our podcast-enabled RSS feed won't pick it up.
While there are no shortage of free file hosting sites out there, very few permit direct linking to the uploaded file -- you first have to go through a page on their site. That doesn't work for our purposes.
At the early stage, we had room to toss a few commentaries, including our own, into the storage we had on our ISP's servers, but doing so put us dangerously close to our disk quotas there, so it wasn't a viable long-term option.
Some commentators have their own server space and so can just host their mp3s themselves, as both The Spoilers and The Firefly Experience have done.
We now have a working solution for those of you unable to host your commentary mp3s on a server from which they can be directly linked. You can make use of this option in one of two ways.
First, if you do make use of one of those free file hosting sites, just upload it there and use that URL in the commentary submission form. We will download it from there, and then re-upload it to the Ourmedia/Internet Archive account we've set up expressly for this purpose.
Second, if you do not make use of such a hosting site, or don't want to, then put something like "Sending via email" in the URL line of the commentary submission form, send your mp3 to us as an email attachment, and we will upload it to our Ourmedia/Internet Archive account.
With this solution now, finally, in place, there's no excuse. Get recording, and share your commentaries with Browncoats everywhere.