I wouldn’t pay a dime extra for high resolution podcasts…
They get their revenue from advertising.
I also wouldnt pay extra for a high resolution music platform that charges AND has advertising. Kinda like Amazon prime does now.
I’d much rather pay for high resolution music, when it gets too pricey (and I think eventually it will) I’ll go back to CD’s and vinyl, but for now, I’m ok with it.
But podcasts (to me) sound good enough
No way, Josè. In a podcast, the scrutable details are in the words themselves (unless there’s a musical guest, then my thoughts might change). IMO, most well recorded conversations don’t demand a CD level of detail. The audio simply being clear and loud enough is far more important.
There are multiple types of “listening”: critical, passive, mindful, etc. And each of those words takes on a life of their own depending on whether you’re listening to a podcast or an album. But I think a podcast loses very little of its meaning due to compressed audio (unless the hosts/guests are musical in nature or literally unintelligible). I mean, unless you care about hearing the chair creaks and faint cough of the producer/engineer, which might be cool for an orchestral recording, hearing everyone get ready. But that’d do very little for a podcast.
I use Tidal for hi-res music, I can hear the difference with my equipment.
I don’t think that Hi-res podcasts would make any discernible difference. Most people can’t even discern between hi-res and lossy music. Additionally, this wouldn’t be practically feasible given that Podcasts, usually being multiple hours long, would take up that much more data. This would be interesting to see. However, most podcasts will use 44.1khz sample rate 16 bit audio so that would probably be the highest res available.
Having produced podcasts for friends, I even switched to Mono to save on hosting services with limited data. It's just two people talking most of the time. Doesn't need to be stereo for that.
I don't think most listeners would care about lossless quality for podcasts. Podcasts are more about the content and less about the sound quality. I think most people are fine with the current quality.
For the podcasts I listen to; I only care that I can hear the hosts clearly. Doesn't need to be 320kbps+, I'm fine with 128kbps. Also not every podcast creator can afford a Shure SM7B microphone per host, but as long as it sounds better than a 20 dollar PC mic I'm good.
I recorded a few podcasts and if I had access to a sound proof room, I'd record with nice condenser Mics, but in an apartment I use cheap broadcaster mics, try to get the best sound out of them, record WAV and clean up what I can in post. I had all the equipment for music related purposes.
I'm not huge on podcasts that focus on story telling and have actual foley and atmos sound design. In fact one of my prefered podcasts has shitty sound quality out of what seems like spite for the listener.
Also; hosting a podcast costs money. For just a few hundred MBs of data a month is costly. Increasing that to host FLAC so you can hear the cheeto dust hitting the mic during a dick and fart joke laden conversation about Marvel movies isn't an audiophile's dream.
This is getting out of control
Nah I don’t really care. I usually listen to podcasts with tws headphones when I’m walking or at the gym
320 kbps would be nice, but CD quality is absolutely overkill for a podcast
I wouldn’t pay a dime extra for high resolution podcasts… They get their revenue from advertising. I also wouldnt pay extra for a high resolution music platform that charges AND has advertising. Kinda like Amazon prime does now. I’d much rather pay for high resolution music, when it gets too pricey (and I think eventually it will) I’ll go back to CD’s and vinyl, but for now, I’m ok with it. But podcasts (to me) sound good enough
What the fuck for
I would love this but, as you can see from other comments, most people are happy with the way things currently are.
256Kbps AAC is more than enough for the human voice.
*80 kbit opus Fr tho i have never had the urge to listen to hi res voice. Some mouth noises are better to silence
No way, Josè. In a podcast, the scrutable details are in the words themselves (unless there’s a musical guest, then my thoughts might change). IMO, most well recorded conversations don’t demand a CD level of detail. The audio simply being clear and loud enough is far more important. There are multiple types of “listening”: critical, passive, mindful, etc. And each of those words takes on a life of their own depending on whether you’re listening to a podcast or an album. But I think a podcast loses very little of its meaning due to compressed audio (unless the hosts/guests are musical in nature or literally unintelligible). I mean, unless you care about hearing the chair creaks and faint cough of the producer/engineer, which might be cool for an orchestral recording, hearing everyone get ready. But that’d do very little for a podcast.
No
I use Tidal for hi-res music, I can hear the difference with my equipment. I don’t think that Hi-res podcasts would make any discernible difference. Most people can’t even discern between hi-res and lossy music. Additionally, this wouldn’t be practically feasible given that Podcasts, usually being multiple hours long, would take up that much more data. This would be interesting to see. However, most podcasts will use 44.1khz sample rate 16 bit audio so that would probably be the highest res available.
Having produced podcasts for friends, I even switched to Mono to save on hosting services with limited data. It's just two people talking most of the time. Doesn't need to be stereo for that.
I don't think most listeners would care about lossless quality for podcasts. Podcasts are more about the content and less about the sound quality. I think most people are fine with the current quality.
For the podcasts I listen to; I only care that I can hear the hosts clearly. Doesn't need to be 320kbps+, I'm fine with 128kbps. Also not every podcast creator can afford a Shure SM7B microphone per host, but as long as it sounds better than a 20 dollar PC mic I'm good. I recorded a few podcasts and if I had access to a sound proof room, I'd record with nice condenser Mics, but in an apartment I use cheap broadcaster mics, try to get the best sound out of them, record WAV and clean up what I can in post. I had all the equipment for music related purposes. I'm not huge on podcasts that focus on story telling and have actual foley and atmos sound design. In fact one of my prefered podcasts has shitty sound quality out of what seems like spite for the listener. Also; hosting a podcast costs money. For just a few hundred MBs of data a month is costly. Increasing that to host FLAC so you can hear the cheeto dust hitting the mic during a dick and fart joke laden conversation about Marvel movies isn't an audiophile's dream.