Hi anarch0re
Thanks for getting in touch. I replied to the list but you can feel free
to reply to me directly.
See my comments inline.
On 2021-10-16 23:39:05, anarchore via Hpr wrote:
Hi;
There was a community news show about a month ago during which the
producers remarked that there was a plateau in subscribers.
I have a suggestion that may improve this attrition rate... I and I'm
sure a lot of others listen to podcasts to wind down while going to sleep.
Ouch ! The community news is putting you to sleep. That hurts !
Joking aside I doubt that most people use HPR to go to sleep. The
variety of shows on HPR is so different you would want to be on your
guard when listening. For example I will only listen to a Dave Morriss
or tuturto show if I'm wide awake - focused - and at a computer with
access to the shownotes. I'll only listen to klaatus shows if I have a
cup of coffee beside me.
The purpose of HPR is not to put people to sleep, it's to get them up,
thinking, hacking, & recording shows with a goal of Sharing Knowledge !
The intro song is loud, low bitrate sounding trumpet chiptune fanfare,
which is fine. The thing is, the shows are often recorded at a low
volume level so the volume must be adjusted upward to hear them... then
after being soothed by a soft spoken hacker voice, the blaring, loud
chiptunes are blasted again at the end of the show.
Fair point and you're not the only one that mentioned this.
We have several volunteers who will help us clean up the audio and help
the host improve their setup. We will on occasion farm the poor audio
out to auphonic.com to see if they can fix it.
However you don't mention which show in particular you are having a
problem with. Or do you feel that this is a problem with all of them ?
Not knowing what shows are having issues we can't tell if it's a issue
with the source audio, the processing or the transcoding.
If it's the Community News show then we can do something about it as it
is directly under my control as I am the one producing it. I will ensure
that the intro and outro of next months one is added and leveled
manually. I would like you to give your feedback on the efforts afterwards.
If it's another show then can you get in touch with me directly so that
we can see if we can address the issue.
If you do feel that the audio is poor, there is something that you can
do to help the project out and that is to report it to us *before* it
hits the main feed.
There is no need for any audiophile to suffer in silence. Just subscribe
to the Future Feed and provide admin@hpr with feedback on the shows
audio. If there are issues there we can try and fix them before it hits
the main feed.
http://hackerpublicradio.org/syndication.php
This has woken me up from sleep many times. I can only imagine the
consternation from headphone users.
I'm sure this has led to many rage-unsubscriptions by those less level
headed than I.
I doubt that. The audio on HPR has been consistently variable since it's
inception. We should be seeing a consistent rate of rage-unsubscriptions
as well. The dip beg
I imagine most people skip the outro entirely.
There is a much more mellow sounding intro that is the same tune at a
lower volume, that is used sometimes. If there must be an outro song,
Yes there must be as we need to provide feedback on how you can
contribute a show to the project. http://hackerpublicradio.org/theme.php.
this should be it, and the loud blaring fanfare tune should be only used
at the beginning.
There are several intros and outros available, which one are your
referring to and I'll put it in ?
http://hackerpublicradio.org/media/theme-music/
As your use case is (I feel at least) pretty unique, I'd love you do
record a show telling us all about it. Don't forget to introducing
yourself, and tell us of your journey to HPR.
Feel under absolutely zero pressure to send in a show. I mean it would
be great if you could as we are running low on shows in the queue, and
have a call for shows open. But as I say don't let the fact that every
single HPR show you are using to go to sleep to has been contributed by
someone very much like yourself who rather than just consumed content,
took the brave step to themselves become a - let me say - hero of sorts.
If you *do* decide to contribute, it's easy just nip over to
http://hackerpublicradio.org/calendar.php for more information.
Hope to _hear_ from you soon ;-)
--
Regards,
Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN)
http://kenfallon.com
http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30
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