More Mp3 Interviews Than You Can Shake A Stick At.

[HolyMoly]

I came upon an interesting page. I'll give a link to it after this paragraph. Louise Palanker has interviewed a lot of personalities ... musical and otherwise ... and has made her interviews available for downloading or streaming. They don't sound 100% "professional" ... but may still be worthwhile listening to. However, for some strange reason, while she allows for the downloading of interviews in MP3 format, she only allows people to stream in Flash format ... even broadband users. I get the distinct impression she doesn't know what an M3U file is (grin). In any case, I created M3U files for all of them if you want to stream them (128k) and give direct links to the MP3 files if you want to download them for posterity. If you have a modem connection and want to stream them (in, ugh, Flash), you'll have to visit her website's interview page here:

http://www.louisepalanker.com/interviews/

OK ... since the M3U files won't work unless they're on my free hosting page, I've place all the streaming and download links there:

http://holymoly.freewebsitehosting.com/interviews/

Have fun.

[Shawn]

The audio is horrible, to the point I wondered for a few seconds if Martin Sheen didn't know he was being interviewed. LOL

Pretty cool though.

[HolyMoly]

Yup. Like I said, not all that professional. But, some of those interviews (bad or not) might be the only ones you can find - like the one of the "late" Robert Palmer.

FWIW, I used to do author interviews myself. It seems obvious that she used some kind of "suction cup" type connection to record the telephone interviews. I've never used one. For years, Radio Shack has sold a connector box that you just plug your phone into ... with an output jack that goes into a tape recorder. Until about 6 years ago, that's what I did ... but then started using TotalRecorder on my computer (which sounds a helluva lot better than cassette tape recordings).

[DudeAsInCool]

A very interesting mix or rare interviews, indeed: Bee Gees Rod Stewart Sting Martin Short Bob Hope Paul Simon Bill Cosby Whitney Houston Bill Murray Moody Blues Gloria Estefan Tina Turner Gladys Knight Jon Bon Jovi Norman Lear George Carlin Julio Iglesias Donny Osmond Journey Beach Boys Huey Lewis Moody Blues Chicago Michael Bolton Michael Hutchence Michael Moore Peter Cetera Jon Lovitz & Dana Carvey Robert Palmer Willie Nelson Martin Sheen

Thanx for posting this H.M.

[ian]

However, for some strange reason, while she allows for the downloading of interviews in MP3 format, she only allows people to stream in Flash format ... even broadband users. I get the distinct impression she doesn't know what an M3U file is (grin).

There is no 'Flash format.' The flash player is streaming the mp3s. An m3u file is not needed to stream an mp3. Just click on the mp3 link.

Ian