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

[lydiabell]

The person producing the podfic could put a feedback address in the ID3 tags, say under "Info" or "Lyrics". Lyrics might be better because I don't know if the comments under the "Info" tag show up on the iPod, but the lyrics do.

[lomedet]

Wait - there's a place on my iPod that displays lyrics? How did I not know about this?

[lydiabell]

First the lyrics have to be in the ID3 tags, and I don't think they usually are for songs unless you add them. I use my iPod mostly for podcasts, and sometimes people will put the show notes in the Lyrics field. If they're there, you can get to them by tapping on the screen below the volume bar (on an iTouch in portrait mode) or by clicking the center button on a click-wheel iPod a few times.