Sayonara, Soundcloud

Some of you may have noticed that the podcast episodes became inaccessible via the website and certain podcasting apps over the weekend. The culprit appears to be something going on at Soundcloud that affected its users’ RSS feeds. Although the feed is back up now, three days of downtime (and the lack of any kind of tech support that I could contact) was enough to convince me to move my audio file hosting elsewhere. I had been planning to do that anyway, as the way I had things set up through Soundcloud was not optimal. If nothing else, it’s now a whole lot simpler for me to get the URL for an uploaded file, something that I had to jump through hoops to do on Soundcloud.

I still have a few months left on my Soundcloud paid account, so I will probably keep uploading new files there in addition to my new hosting site. What happens when the paid account expires? I don’t know yet. So, if you had been listening to the podcast via Soundcloud, you might want to consider switching to one of the other ways to access the show.