Ok I'm going to be the pedantic audio nerd here. Using decibels to measure
this sort of thing can quickly lead to issues. The above example kind of
proves that. Without going into a REALLY long rant about audio
measurements and acoustics, the industry standard for measuring finalized
audio level
On 10/17/21 12:49, Ken Fallon wrote:
Hi anarch0re
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
sof
We could make it a policy to request shows without music, and just resolve to
attach the intro and outro ourselves (as we do already, as needed) for our
Music feed. Then by default, we would be getting shows that would go straight
to our Music-less feed.
Speaking as one of the hosts who "bakes
Wow. I'm so glad anarch0re started this thread. I had no idea.
We do now keep the original unbranded audio and it's available on the
Internet Archive. It would be possible to create an "unbranded feed"
from that.
It may fix the problem for some shows, but there are still a lot of
hosts that
s 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 your
lol@To be honest unsubscribing from HPR sounds like a euphemism, like
"shuffling off this mortal coil"
That is kinda true for me, too.
I'm still firmly on the side of not caring much about production quality.
Not again looking for an easy way to eliminate the jarring change in
volume. But it't n
gt; > >
>> > > 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 consi
I am a nocturnal podcast listener mainly because it's the only time I have
to listen properly. I cannot work, code, write or even exercise and listen
to speech properly. Also my daytime podcast bandwidth went down drastically
when my daily commute ended some years ago. (I imagine that's become much
Interestingly, my own podcast, GNU World Order, has gotten a few emails from
people over the years who say they fall asleep to podcasts, as well.
Many people identify strongly with the "brand" of a podcast by its intro and
outro music. However, other people find the almost subliminal chatter abo
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
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