# Podcasting and the applications used

I am seriously considering starting up my own podcast. I have pretty much all the gear I would need to do it, short of a three or four channel mixer that would be handy for adding music or switching between two microphones. I am planning to record anything I'd do on my [iRiver IFP 799](article.php?sid=627), which is incidentally the same thing that [Adam Curry](http://www.dailysourcecode.com/) uses for his podcast.  
  
Mine wouldn't necessarily be daily, probably not, but maybe weekly. One piece of software that Curry uses that I would love to be able to use is a Mac-only application called [Audio Hijack](http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) that can grab the sound output of any other application and record it specifically. I tried some basic recording to see how my microphones sound and used my laptop to play some background music, but I still get the pings and blips of other applications like MSN. I know I could just shut those certain applications down, but even explorer makes noise sometimes. Really, what I would like this ability for is to be able to talk to somebody on the podcast via [Skype](article.php?sid=633). Seriously, how cool would that be? I could do phone interviews.  
  
Anyway, if anybody has any suggestions for windows applications that can do the same thing, please respond here or [email me](modules.php?name=Email).

*Originally posted on Tuesday, 2005-03-29 at 11:46:10.*