Introducing Shortcut | This American Life

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Have you ever heard a moment on the show that you wish you could share with your friends? Well, now you can! Shortcut is a new app we created that allows you to turn your favorite podcast moments into videos that you can post to social media. It’s kind of like making a gif, but for audio. Here’s how to use it.

I love the functionality that they’ve built into their podcast to clip and share audio snippets. It’s only a step or two further to highlight and annotate within an audio file. This is somewhat reminiscent of bits of SoundCloud’s user interface.

h/t Jon Udell via Twitter

@hypothes_is @judell s there a way to annotate mp3? I'd like to attach annotations to podcasts.

— Raymond Yee (@rdhyee) December 16, 2016

@rdhyee @hypothes_is @judell Something like this:
— Michael Shook (@mshook) December 16, 2016

Yes, for any file-served mp3. did that, @dougkaye had a variant for ITConversations. @mshook @rdhyee

— Jon Udell (@judell) December 16, 2016

@judell @dougkaye @mshook @rdhyee check out @signlfm — they might work on an open spec with you for podcast annotation

— Boris Mann (@bmann) December 16, 2016

@signlfm @bmann @judell @dougkaye @mshook @rdhyee We're using WebVTT – already a standard. Could do some IndieWeb things with it.

— Jim Pick (@jimpick) December 16, 2016

@jimpick @signlfm hey @judell does @hypothes_is understand WebVTT? Maybe push tweets into Hypothesis as an annotation

— Boris Mann (@bmann) December 16, 2016

If text exists, cool. But bare MP3s are timecode-accessible, though we haven't leveraged that much. @bmann @jimpick @signlfm @hypothes_is

— Jon Udell (@judell) December 16, 2016

@judell @bmann @signlfm @hypothes_is Also the HTML5 Media Fragments URI, which I don't think many people know about
— Jim Pick (@jimpick) December 16, 2016