In the past I've recorded these at 22kHz and 64Kbps, but I'm wanting to reduce the file sizes. With those settings they are around 17Mb. The below obviously cuts that in half, and it sounds fine I think for the voices, but for the intro/outro music I hear some distortion in the upper/mid rang... kinda like an alien radio transmission... :)
You can hear them here:
http://friendshipcommunitychur...
Note: only the June 08 and June 15 are 32kbps, the older ones are 64Kbps.
This is my first Drupal site, so please feel free to critique and offer suggestions.
I'm still working on a few issues with theming, the calendar, etc. I've just been running it in parallel with the old site and will continue doing that until it's ready to take over.
One mod I made was to the audio import module to have it strip all none word/digit characters from the mp3 filename, replaces spaces with underscores, and prefix it with a date-time stamp during import. If anyone wants that, let me know.
Thank you!
doh... That was my comment
doh... That was my comment above. Didn't mean to post it as anonymous... :)
44kHz & 48Kbps
I went with 44kHz and 48Kbps for today's podcast and it sounds pretty good and is only about 3.5 Mb larger at 11.66 MB for 34 minutes.
Unless someone can offer a better suggestion, I'm thinking I'll stick with that for a while.
I tend to go with 64kbps
I tend to go with 64kbps just sounds better to my ears.
64kbps
We experimented with dropping G&G down to 32kbps for some time. But, there is a noticeable sound degradation at that rate. It just didn't sound very good at 32kbps.
The same annoyances I herd on those G&G episodes are in episodes linked above that were recorded at the lower rate.
This brings up an important question. What's more important between listener experience and small file size. I think listener experience is more important. There are lots of factors that go into listening to recorded audio other than the message that's conveyed. Our brain picks out certain things and bad sounding audio can drive someone away from the best speaker with the coolest message.
Is 17 Meg very big for a file? This depends on where you live and the demographic you are trying to reach but in many cases it's not that big.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
broadband
With broadband, I would rather have a larger, higher quality file. I think it is always a compromise in the end.
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40 kbs
We dropped our feed to a mono signal and upped the kbs from 32 to 40. We actually improved the quality of the podcast and lowered the file size. we're around 11 mb for 45 min. The music at the beginning suffers, but its like 8 seconds long.
Anthony Pero
Minister of Music
Lima First Assembly of God
http://www.limafirstmedia.com/
http://www.anthonypero.com/boo...
http://www.worshipnexus.org
G&G is at....
If I remember correctly, G&G is mono 64kbps. Just to give a point of reference.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
Thanks!
Thanks for the advice everyone, very helpful!