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The other day I went to a Zoom Postcard Campaign writing party. About 40 people attended the event, and they were a lively and entertaining group. But what I found most interesting in the afternoon was that at one point our Zoom room doubled as a radio station.
There we were, all busy writing postcards to voters’ addresses given to us, and suddenly Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised†began to come out of our computers. As the music continued, I asked the host how she did this.
“Well, I’m just playing my speaker into the laptop’s microphone,†she replied.
It sounded pretty good for such a simple arrangement. I guess another way would be to go to “share screen” and then check “share computer sound” and then play a Youtube music video – or something like that.
Maybe at some point Zoom will offer a background music feature similar to its “choose virtual background” option in video settings. Until then, an external speaker or “sharing computer sound” seem to be good options.
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About Matthieu Lasar
Matthew Lasar is co-founder of Radio Survivor and its commercial director. He is the author of Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium (http://tinyurl.com/jr8uknk) and teaches history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Likes: deejays, classical music, Disco, postpunk, cats, free school meals. Dislikes: money, ideologies, pretends technology will fix everything. Follow him on Twitter at @matthewlasar. Email him at matthew@radiosurvivor.com.
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