Key Our Cars

Mine wife was asking me how many people listen to our podcast to which I said, “I dunno.” but I resolved to look into it.  A few days later I remembered to do so.  As it turns out you cannot get stats from Apple.  They don’t offer those for love or money.

I can always download my web traffic logs and parse them (Episode 10 Part 1 has been pulled 355 times since it went up 3 days ago for instance) but that’s a chore and I only get 9 log files from my isp (www.1and1.com) which auto recycle when they hit around 40megs.  Right now that only let’s me go back about 3 months. And the time frame between them is shrinking the last one only lasted a week before it was archived and the oldest one deleted to start a new one.

In an effort to get some easier stats to view and some more long term stats I’ve invoked the stats option on my blubrry plugin which is what I use to show them in posts here and auto submit them to itunes.  For easy podcasting through wordpress blubrry does a great job by the way.

I’m not sure what using their redirect might change and what that might screw up so you 355 people that are listening to my podcast please let me know if you run into any problems.  I’ll be deleting it and resubscribing from time to time in the next few days to check but if it breaks let me know.

I’ve also noted that itunes was only showing the last 10 podcasts.  Not very new listener friendly.  I’ve made some changes that should make it possible to pull all the casts going back to the first one from either the podcast feed or through itunes or from you ipod/iphone (open itunes on the phone and search podcasts for key our cars) directly.  If you’re a new listener and started somewhere in the middle, again my apologies for the quality of the first couple of episodes.  Recording casts is a learning experience.

Episode 10, part 3 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session.

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Episode 10, part 2 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session.

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Episode 10, part 1 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session.

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Episode 9, part 3 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session.  The slaver tower is taken after good planning.

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Episode 9, part 2 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. The group wanders around the city, gathering clues and information and departs to the slavers island.

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Episode 9, part 1 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. The group fights giant worms.

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Episode 8, part 3 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. A fight breaks out in a warehouse against the leader of the bandits who captured them and a slaver overmage.

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Episode 8, part 2 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. They deal with the aftermath of the hobgoblin fight, we invite T’Balktu to join the group and hear of a clandestine meeting with an Eladrin.

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Episode 8, part 1 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. The group heads off to a temple of healing to cure Torn and finds some hobgoblins who object.

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The new and upcoming podcasts are only two parters.  Generally I’ve cut the session recordings up at natural breakpoints by either RP time or combats and they’ve come to about an hour to an hour and a half per.  The last two sessions 8 and 9 (podcast 7 and 8 ) though have ended up being in two parts each about two and a half hours each.

I don’t really have a reason to cut them up at all, my initial thought was release them over time to give people something to look forward to but really the post work necessary means I end up getting each of the sessions cleaned up and have my wife (Elisssa) record the intro that delaying publishing any of them would be pointless.

Honestly who wouldn’t prefer to download the entire Penny Arcade podcasts at one time rather than 30 minutes  a week?

Another reason to keep them chopped in blocks is to make it easier for people to skip ahead without missing a lot.  If they want to jump to the end of the current battle, it’s not a hard thing to do.  If the recrding was 5 hours long with 4 battles in it, then it might be a little more difficult to skip the parts you in particular didn’t want to listen to.

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Episode 7, part 2 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. Something wicked is found in the temple of Eris.

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Episode 7, part 1 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. A long non-combat session erupts with the party trying to uncover a murder.

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Episode 6, part 4 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. Our heroes arrive in Darkmith where they raid the temple of the artificers while the ruined city erupts around them in a fit of evil.

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Episode 6, part 3 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. Our heroes arrive in Darkmith where they raid the temple of the artificers while the ruined city erupts around them in a fit of evil.

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Episode 6, part 2 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. Our heroes arrive in Darkmith where they raid the temple of the artificers while the ruined city erupts around them in a fit of evil.

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Episode 6, part 1 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. Our heroes arrive in Darkmith where they raid the temple of the artificers while the ruined city erupts around them in a fit of evil.

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Episode 5, part 3 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. The group is arrested after the dock fight and works their way out of incarceration and then heads back to Darkmith after information and their airship.

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Episode 5, part 2 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. The group faces down ‘traders’ on the docks and ends up captured again.

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Episode 5, part 1 of the Key Our Cars group’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast gameplay session. We find our heroes rescued by their friends and they find their friends missing.

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