Ian Scott

Tuesday Night Tech once again returns and that means it’s time for the best LIVE party on the internet! Your TNT hosts Bill ‘Dr. Soos’ Soucy and Mark H. Delfs comb through their mostly-disturbing Google Newsreader Tech Stories and bring you the best (and usually comical) stories of the week. Fire up your browser and head to our live video page and help us craft the Tuesday Night Tech Show at 9:00PM (EST).As always, here is the weekly schedule:

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IOpen source software makes podcasting easy — too easy. Listening to a playlist of first-timer podcasts can leave your ears ringing from sudden changes in playback volume. The problem is audio mastering. Recording sound is simple, but mastering that sound — compressing volume differences, maintaining a decibel ceiling, and similar operations — is anything but. Fortunately, an open source tool offers everything you need for mastering podcasts and other spoken-word recordings. Audacity is well-known among podcasters on all platforms for its ability as an editor; here are some tips and tools for mastering and adjusting volume, aimed at podcasters, but they could apply to anyone who needs to produce a spoken-word recording under less-than-perfect conditions. Mastering podcasts with Audacity [NewsForge]

A little birdie told us that a firmware update for iPods is coming soon, giving you that same Cover Flow view that you’ve grown to love in iTunes now. See it in action, right here.

The tipster also tells us that we won’t see any new-generation iPods before the iPhone debuts, either. But to us, with the scrubbing of the scrollwheel and the coverflow not quite lining up, it seems that this whole thing could be a fake. We’re keeping our eyes out in any case.

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Everyone loves the iPod. Not everyone loves iTunes. It’s not that iTunes is a bad application, but it does limit what you can do with your iPod. This week I’ll show you how to free yourself from the one computer, one music library shackles of iTunes using alternative software for managing the iPod.

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Turn your PC into a full-fledged media center with MediaPortal, an open-source alternative to Microsoft’s own Media Center Edition OS.

MediaPortal can play, record and timeshift TV; play videos and DVDs; run photo slideshows; play your music library and FM radio; show local weather; and much more. In short, it offers everything a good media-center application should, all wrapped in a friendly, attractive interface. It even comes with open-source MPEG-2 decoders, a nice extra for systems that don’t already have one. [via lifehacker]

iTunes only allows you to authorize 5 computers at a time. If you want more, you need to de-authorize one computer, then authorize the new one (or you can choose to de-authorize all if you don’t have access to the computers you want to de-authorize). The point is, your number of authorized computers must always remain below 5. However, there is a way around this. Check it out after the jump.

YouTube is the most popular site to visit for viewing online videos, sharing your favourite videos with people and commenting on videos you like. Recently YouTube was acquired by Google for a few billion dollars. Here is a collection of several YouTube third party tools which enhance your YouTube experience. [link]

“We’ve heard a lot about movies in iTunes, and other rumors, but one thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the possibility of iTunes 7. Apple launched iTunes 6 almost 11 months ago to the day of this event. Remember what the big feature of iTunes 6 was? That’s right, TV shows in the iTunes Music Store.”

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If you’re tired of opening up the iTunes window every time you want to pause, start, or fast forward iTunes check out this nifty built in feature very few people know about.

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But what are the prime ingredients for YouTube success - what separates a viral hit from a barely-noticed miss? Poking around the top rated videos provides a few answers.

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