podfic feedback: how (when, why) do you do it?

[lomedet]

Amplirecathon is making me think about podfic, feedback, and me. Or, more accurately, about how much I love podfic and how that love is in no way represented by the amount of feedback (read: very, very little) I have left for podfic readers or the authors of stories I have discovered through podfic.

My process for listening to podfic goes something like this: I download a story from the archive or from a link on a podfic community. I close the download tab. I load the story on to my ipod. Then, hours or days later, I listen to the story as I'm riding on or waiting for a bus. Or maybe doing dishes or folding laundry. In any event, I listen to the story when I am far away from my computer, and even if I'm not physically so far away from my computer, I've already clicked away from or closed the page which tells me where I can leave feedback for the author or the reader. And I am lazy, so I don't usually think about going back to look for it when I have the opportunity.

I am contrasting this process with that of reading fanfic, where if I am moved by a story when I finish it, I can click a button and let the author know how I feel right then and there.

So, I want to know: what do y'all do? Have you come up with a successful strategy for leaving feedback that doesn't feel unduly labor-intensive? Have you given up on direct feedback in favor of recs? If you do go back and leave podfic feedback, does it feel strange to do so at a remove from your immediate response? Am I missing something totally obvious that will make my feedback-leaving life ten times easier?

Comments

[were_duck]

My style of leaving feedback is just to reference my ipod every so often to see which ones I had listened to recently out of the batch I have on there (I am also one of those who downloads several stories at once). Then I just look 'em up in the audiofic archive, click the comment to reader link, and leave a comment. I don't comment on everything I listen to (though I am trying to do better at that), but I can usually remember enough of what I thought of the podfic I'd listened to recently to leave a relevant comment. Then I take those stories off my ipod and add some new ones!

[lomedet]

Every so often - I can do every so often! Do you find that a) all the stories on your iPod are also on the Archive (I've downloaded some from other places, and I'm not sure if they ever got archived) and b) the feedback links on the Archive posts are the best way to reach readers?

[were_duck]

I am a creature of habit--I almost always dl from the archive or from amplificathon on LJ or DW, and I think most of those podfics go into the archive eventually? If it wasn't in the archive I guess I'd google for it, or search the podfic comms I frequent to find it again? I can't remember the archive ever failing me on this, though sometimes the comment link opens up an email instead of a webpage, and I have a block about cold-emailing strangers so sometimes those are the podfics I flake out on feedbacking (yes, I feel terrible about this!).