[Web4lib] podcasting?

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I always host a variety of file sizes to suit different tastes and
download speeds. I personally cant stand heavily lossy audio, even if
its just speaking. The compression artifacts distract and annoy me.

On 5/21/07, Will Kurt <wkurt at bbn.com> wrote:
> I agree strongly to keep the bit rate down as low as you can, a
> speaking voice can be very compressed before you notice any loss in quality.
>
> Additionally Audacity is an excellent free OSS audio editor, which
> can come in handy for trimming and breaking down lectures etc into a
> more manageable size: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
>
> --Will
>
>
> At 11:44 AM 5/21/2007, Leo Robert Klein wrote:
> >Bob Craigmile wrote:
> ><snip>
> >
> >Wherever you're hosting this, please make it 32kbs 22,000Hz mono --
> >unless there's someone singing.
> >
> >There's no reason to have these fat mp3 files: 60 megs/hour is obese
> >(and obscene), 14 megs/hour is more like it.
> >
> >LEO
> >
> >
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