Audacity's new update for Catalina; and RAIN Summit Europe tickets

• Audacity, which doesn’t work on macOS Catalina, is currently set to release a new version on 10 November that does. In the meantime, there’s a workaround to make it work. The next release will also not work in Catalina, the organisation has now said.

• Event: the RAIN Summit Europe is on November 13th in central London. Speakers include Ruth Fitzsimons from Podfront UK, Sarah van Mosel from Midroll, Declan Moore from Wondery, Steve Goldstein from Amplifi Media, and radio consultant David Lloyd. Priced at over £200, this special link for Podnews readers will get you free tickets, if you’re quick.

• In Vancouver BC, Canada’s Pacific Content has hired Jonas Woost as Director of Business Development. Jonas joins from Storyhive, a film incubator run by Telus; and previously worked for CBC Music and music service last·fm.

  
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• Elsewhere in Canada (in Vernon BC), Justin Jackson from Transistor is interviewed about how he works at his podcast company.

• Sky, a European pay-TV broadcaster, has made a pilot of a Spotify Studios podcast, The Receipts. (Of interest, possibly: that podcast is hosted at Soundcloud).

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• Jack Rhysider from Darkside Diaries - a man who knows his way around a computer or two - managed to accidentally delete all his podcasts over the weekend, “due to bad UI”. "I selected a single episode, hit delete, are you sure yes, it deleted all episodes," he added, noting that his hosting provider doesn’t have 24/7 support. His podcasts are now back.

  • Zack Kahn from Vox Media adds on his personal Twitter that “we are building a billion dollar industry on late 90s tech, and it’s going to really hurt us unless we start modernising”, and “even the best podcast hosting providers are doing a C+/B job”. We helped a podcast publisher with an issue with Apple Podcasts last week: their podcast host had let them upload the wrong sized image, and had also allowed them to upload a VBR audio file. Both of these issues are easily caught by simple software routines, and are obvious best practice.

Found anything odd in your podcast host’s terms and conditions? Tomorrow, we’ll cover a few of the stranger things we’ve found. Got anything you’d like to (confidentially) tip us off about? We’re at updates@podnews.net

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Congratulations to Todd Cochrane, who released episode 1,400 of his Geek News Central tech news podcast. (PowerPress)
Word Podcast, a popular UK music podcast with David Hepworth and Mark Ellen, has released its entire back catalogue, all the way back to March 2007. It’s available on Spotify (and, if your podcast app supports it, it too).
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This American Life, but from England: Multi Story from the BBC is worth a listen. Jump in to Hidden History, including a Wiltshire woman who had no idea her husband was a spy, until three years after his death. (BBC)

True Consequences launches today: a true crime podcast focusing on many of the unsolved cases in New Mexico in the US, and hosted by someone directly involved. (Libsyn)

The Communicate Influence Podcast is a new podcast interviewing people in communications, PR, marketing, and leadership. The latest episode talks about how to engage on social media. (Pippa)