Odeo means ‘I hate’ in Spanish

If you saw my previous post on Odeo you saw that I was going to use them for podcast recordings. I went through all the testing and found the setup to be very easy. The instructions on their site VERY clearly and emphatically state that you must hit the pound key on your phone when using their phone recording feature or the recording won’t save. I got my interview started, rang up Odeo and got the recording started (the tone telling me the recording was on came through loud and clear). I had a beauty of an interview, and VERY carefully hit pound at the end of the phone interview to save the recording and….nothing. Nada, Zilcho. I hit pound about 5 more times before acknowledging that I was done. I hate Odeo. Did you know that Odeo (actually Odiar = to hate; Odio = I hate) in Spanish means HATE. Shannon, told me this a few hours after I stopped screaming my hatred for Odeo around the house (this lasted for a few hours). If only I knew before I used their service.

Lesson learned: use a good old fashioned analog tape recorder backup if you’re going to use a digital solution. I should have done some more testing as well. Reporters say they always take physical notes as a back-up, even when they’re recording their interviews – this is clearly why.

P.S. I contacted ODEO tech support but they couldn’t rescue the recording. Big surprise.