How dare they pull me back in again.
I have a fabulous new microphone! It’s a Røde NT-USB Mini and its sound is everything I ever wanted. I am utterly delighted. Thanks to reader Firegravity who bought it for me. [Amazon UK; Amazon US]
So I thought, why not just … ramble like I’m on a podcast?
So I did this very quickly! … and then spent a few hours dressing it up with slides and video clips. Then I put it up on the Pivot to AI channel. It’s just 12 minutes. [YouTube]
$5-and-up patrons can read the transcript of this video now. [Patreon]
I might do more of these, probably. Let me know what you think about slow rambling with hesitations versus the faster scripted things I do for Pivot to AI.
Who here uses a podcast catcher? Which one do you use? I’m wondering if audio (just the soundtracks) might be worth it.
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I’ve been using Podcast Addict for years – it allows for both public and private feeds, and sort of half-heartedly supports RSS text feeds.
Long long time pet peeve about podcast audio: digital audio has a bult in maximum. Many (most) digital audio system, both phones and computers, map the maximum digital level to the maximum audio level, which means they CANNOT compensate to programs with the audio levels set too LOW. Users can always turn levels DOWN, but cannot raise them above the “max”.
For the love of all that is audio, do a final pass on your podcast to being your PEAK data up to the MAXIMUM digital level before releasing it. Almost all audio processing systems have this as a single-click operation
do you mean normalise to 0dB? I usually normalise to -3dB before feeding it to the video editor
Boring old RSS. If it doesn’t have an RSS feed linking directly to the file, it’s not a podcast, just sparkling proprietary audio.
yes but you’re the sophisticated audience
I’ve been using gPodder (https://gpodder.github.io/) for many years, and it works, so I continue.