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More info about Scoobtober audio commentary tracks
🕑 Added 2021-10-22 16:37:00 +0000 UTCHey, gang. I've gotten a good amount of questions about the commentary tracks, so I want to address the three most frequent ones real quick!
Why are they just audio and not video?
For a couple reasons. Firstly, as I stated in the previous post, we obviously don't have the rights to the Scoob episodes, so we can't just upload them to the internet for people to download. That would put us in some legal trouble.
But why not just videos of Em and myself instead of just our audio? Tbh, I didn't realize this would be a thing people would want. I think of commentary tracks as inherently audio-only. The idea is that you watch the episode together, not watch us watching the episode. To me it just seems more cumbersome to setup multiple screens to watch through these commentaries. Maybe I'm wrong.
Either way, we have only recorded audio and it's too late to go back and get video. If it's a think everyone is genuinely wanting, I'll keep that in mind for future commentary tracks. I just feel like audio is the easiest for people to listen to and for us to distribute right now. Which brings us to the bigger question...
How will they be distributed?
As of right now, it seems the easiest way to distribute the audio commentary tracks is via the NerdSync Patreon's RSS feed on or around the 30th-31st of this month. You can access the RSS feed right now when you go to your "My Membership" section of the NerdSync Patreon Page. It's the same RSS feed I use for all past audio updates, so it will already be populated with stuff. Just ignore those for now, haha.
Will I still be able to listen to them if I stop supporting you on Patreon?
UPDATE: I just learned that according to Patreon, "The RSS feed has the user's info built in so that a registered patron with an active pledge can use the feed. If their pledge becomes inactive, the feed stops working. But it will become active again when they renew the pledge.
So this means that if you stop supporting, you will lose access to the feed. They will still be up for at least 1-2 days before the month ends, so you can absolutely speed run listening to them if you need to drop support the following month.
Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions either here or on Discord!
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Oh! And very important! Do not get confused - 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo and the movie 13 Ghosts starring Matthew Lillard are NOT the same. I know Lillard was an iconic and definitive Shaggy, but trust me, this film is not a live action spinoff.
I just checked, and the two live action movies are on HBO(sub), the two animated movies (Zombie Island and Witch's Ghost) are on Boomerang(sub). Scooby Doo Where are You and 13 ghosts of Scooby Doo are both on Tubi (free) or Boomerang(sub), Pup named SD is on Boomerang (sub), and What's New SD is on Netflix (sub) or Boomerang (sub). So a Boomerang sub gets you everything but the live action movies. There are other buy/rent options but I was focused on what was available on free or subscription streaming.
Michael Lipinski
People wanted videos of you watching a show? That seems weird to me. I just assumed you would be doing an audio-commentary that just syncs up with the video ala Rifftrax.
