For piss sakes, keep doing these! The personal nature of this, and the tone, and the material....spot on. Well done!

I don't know much about podcasts, but aren't they usually distributed via a bittorrent file? I feel guily directly downloading ~ 75 MB from a file server. Are any torrents available?

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Definitely worth an hour of listening.

Awesome. It was great listening to you and Tres again. And the interview with Phillip (which is where I am in my listening right now) is great.

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I'm listening to it right now, and the sound quality is really quite good.
The audio geek in me can't resist pointing out that the levels vary quite a bit - some parts you guys are pretty quiet, then somebody says something funny and the laughing is way louder. The solution, which is a pretty non-intrusive thing with speech, is to compress the snot out of it. (This can also raise the noise floor, so it's nice if the compressor also includes a noise gate threshold control.)

I gather you're using Garage Band. I don't recall what Garage Band gives you in terms of compressors... it has a bunch of preset effects but IIRC they've all got goofy names based on what Apple thinks you should use them for. Something in there might help.

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...had a lot of fun listening to Chris and Tres...especially it reminded me to fix the broken 'tar' call in Makefile.in :-)

To avoid the insanity of a 70MB+ file, try lower bitrate. 64kbps is plenty for voice recordings, and would reduce the size of the file significantly. (IIRC, the bit rate for the encoding was 192kbps or similar overkill :)

I had fun listening, and would definitely tune in again. If you want to make it a permanent fixture, we would be happy to host it on plone.org's bandwidth. Might need proper BLOB support in Zope for that, though! :]

(ooh, and I thoroughly enjoyed the cheesy music ;)

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Excellent production value. Fun, informative show. You might consider using feedburner or similar so users can subscribe easily with their podcatching client (ipodder.org, iTunes, etc.). Good luck with the show.

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Please do more! Just be sure to rag on Jens a little more next time ;^)

-Casey

I'm a new Zope user and I found the plonecast very informative and entertaining. I plan to buy the book that you mentioned on Zope 3. I really hope that you continue to do more of these. The only suggestion I would make is to adjust the microphone settings or location relative to the speakers. I found that listening on my iPod I had to turn the volume up all the way to hear everyone speak, but that sometimes when a speaker would laugh or speak up it would get so loud it would be kind of painful on the ears. Anyway - not complaining - just a suggestion - thanks again!

Thanks for putting up the show. It was very informative/entertaining.
I only really deal with plone/zope mildly but hearing your podcast gives me a better run down.

Yeah, the only suggestion would be the same as what other people have suggested with the audio post-production. 64kbs mono, 44khz. That's what itconversations.com uses.

If bandwidth's an issue, I suggest ourmedia.org.

Any chance of getting these into iTunes podcast directory?

BZ

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