Where Is All The Podfic?

[kerravonsen]

Gah! I've been looking through the amplificathon archives - why is 90% of podfic slash? (!!!???) I'm currently on "skip=100" on the "archived" tag and I have found three stories which aren't slash, in fandoms I know. Four if you count the one which I already got from elsewhere.
All the Sherlock podfic there is John/Sherlock.
All the ST:Reboot podfic there is Jim/Spock.
All the Harry Potter podfic there is either Harry/Draco or Harry/Snape.
Then we have the huge amount of Supernatural slash. And the Avengers slash. And the Merlin slash. And the Inception slash. And the RPF slash. And the fandoms-I'd-never-heard-of-before slash (e.g. Teen Wolf). And of course the one single Man From UNCLE story was... slash.
Oh, I think there was one Magnificent 7 gen story. And, astonishingly, one Supernatural gen story. But I don't follow Mag7 or SPN.
(sigh)

Maybe I need to learn how to make podfic. But I have so many other things I want to do instead. (sigh)

Comments

[tptigger]

Because 90% of all fic is slash? And then of the other 10%, 7 is het. Do Not Get Me Started.

[kerravonsen]

So you're basically saying that I can't find any non-slash podfic because there isn't enough podfic around for me to find the 10%? Whereas with fanfic itself, there's so much fanfic in total that there's enough fanfic around for me to be able to find the non-slash stuff?
(sigh)
Maybe you're right.

[tptigger]

Well, percentages do work that way with smaller fandoms (except at Yuletide, because of Reasons). It may also be that podfic searching methods aren't great. (The best thing about AO3 is tag filtering. I look forward to them bringing it back and do 10x as much scrolling in the meantime)

[kerravonsen]

Yeah, I'm hanging out for the tag filtering to come back too, since they actually do have a "podfic" tag, but it is rather exhausting to have to look through everything without filtering.
I'm glad the AO3 is getting popular, but site overloading is the downside of that! I hope they can overcome those problems soon.

[busaikko]

(here via network)

It depends on the fandom. Supernatural has a community (http://spn-gen-podfics.livejournal.com/) for gen podfic.

The audiofic archive lists gen with a separate tag, so:
http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/sherlock-bbcgen
http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/fandomcriminal-minds/criminal-mindsgen
http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/fandomsupernatural/supernaturalgen
and so on.

Here is one Mag7 story (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1460117.html) not sure if it's the one that you found; some Bandom/Stargate (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1417732.html); Firefly (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1391806.html); a mixed bag, Harry Potter, Bandom, Buffy, the Lilo&Stitch/Hawaii 5-0 one is delightful (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1421857.html), Discworld (http://reena-jenkins.livejournal.com/), Dr Who (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1254813.html)... I'm reccing a lot by one of my favorite readers, reena jenkins, who created a monumental and fanciful, astounding podifc compendium called The Intangible Residuum: A Collection Of Stories (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1078262.html), many of which are gen and which are all quirky and fascinating.

[busaikko]

ETA Er, and a Merlin Morgana fic (http://quintenttsy.livejournal.com/12862.html). (Podfic is an addiction of mine, sorry)

[kerravonsen]

Don't apologise! This is just what I need to know! I've only just started looking at podfic myself, because my new MP3 player makes it a heck of a lot easier to listen to podfic/audiobooks/audioplays than my previous one did. And I love doing craft while listening to stories.

I'm not into Criminal Minds, Supernatural, Magnificent 7, Firefly, H50, Bandom or Merlin, alas.
I trawled through the Harry Potter and Doctor Who tags at Jinjurly, but I admit I haven't looked at every single thing in other fandoms there. (Makes note to check out Sherlock gen and Stargate gen).

[busaikko]

Jinjurly's archive was down for most of the past year, I think, so a lot of new fic hasn't been added. You might want to ask at a comm like http://podficpool.dreamwidth.org/profile for recs: I think it would be great to find ~all the gen *g*

[kerravonsen]

Oooh, I'll check that out!

[kerravonsen]

not sure if it's the one that you found
Yeah, that's the one.

Dr Who (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1254813.html)
Yep, I already got that one from elsewhere.

I'm reccing a lot by one of my favorite readers, reena jenkins, who created a monumental and fanciful, astounding podifc compendium called The Intangible Residuum: A Collection Of Stories (http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1078262.html), many of which are gen and which are all quirky and fascinating.

Alas, that collection was stored at Megaupload-that-was.

[busaikko]

;_; ...The Amplificathon mods have asked people to give them new working links, so maybe soon? It would be a shame to loose good podfic.

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

Ack! I meant to leave a link to the audiofic archive I'm fond of - below is a direct link to their Sherlock BBC gen section - and the webmistress hosts them on the site which is wonderful. Thanks to her I still can get a copy of my solitary podfic experiment that was eaten by megaupload!

http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/sherlock-bbcgen

[kerravonsen]

Yep, I'm aware of that archive. I haven't looked at the Sherlock stuff there yet, though, thanks.

[sixpence-jones.livejournal.com]

I've read a few books onto cds for a library at our church (hubs is a hobbyist sound engineer) so I think podfic is something I might be able to do...

What is the form on making your own podfic? Do you have to ask the fic authors permission or can you just go ahead and do it? The reason I ask this is, while I'm sure it is only polite to ask, some authors have left or moved fandoms.

And then do you have to store it somewhere in particular or what? Please forgive the technoduncy questions but I am interested.

[kerravonsen]

That would be awesome!

Many authors give blanket permission to podfic their work. If they aren't on that list, you can check their profile or author page, since I doubt that list is exhaustive (e.g. I give blanket permission myself, but I'm not on that list). Otherwise, yes, it's only polite to ask. I doubt that many authors are around who are completely uncontactable.

As for where to put it, the biggest archive (possibly the ONLY archive) is http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/ and you can check out the http://www.audiofic.jinjurly.com/how-do-i-submit-recording page for instructions.

Yay!

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

If you checked Avengers, do you want a Thor movieverse mostly-gen podfic? I didn't mention it before because (1) I cowrote it with khilari and feared that might be in poor taste and (2) I didn't think you wanted that fandom.

[kerravonsen]

No, I mentioned Avengers only because I'd heard of the fandom, I'm afraid I haven't seen the movie.

But please don't hesitate to self-rec in future! I loved your "Time's Riddle" series and I trust that anything else you write will be just as good.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Well, thank you. :)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Can you convert You Tube videos to MP3?
If not this website may help

http://www.listentoyoutube.com/index.php

There are a number of podfics on You Tube, for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLikzSwmxag

This is the first of a series done by a member of The Yahoo Sarek/Amanda group.

If you like Benedict Cumbebatch's voice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoAr_0r6kaY

Or Christopher Lee's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyxsPHWSxlY

[kerravonsen]

Can you convert You Tube videos to MP3?
Yes I can!

It never occurred to me that people might have put podfic up on YouTube. Thank you for the pointer!

This isn't exchange related but...

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