I'm with Morgellon. My Fast Forward and skip buttons works just fine. And its worth repeating, Please Ken, don't let one comment stress you out.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Joshua Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > I honestly don't understand what the problem is. It's a podcast, *just > fast forward*. I do it with plenty of stuff I listen to. Sorry if I > sound like a jerk, but I really don't see an issue with the intro length. > > Please Ken, don't let one comment stress you out. > > (I'm working on several shows to atone for my by attitude on this thread.) > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Ken Fallon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm finding it very hard to get a handle on the feedback from this >> thread. Although I suspect that may be a problem on my side. >> >> Can we take the text-to-speech engine and voice out of the discussion >> please as that's a technical and license issue. It *will* improve over >> time and suggestions on that topic can be directed to >> [email protected]. >> >> Discussions on whether to include text-to-speech synopsis can and should >> be sent to the mail list. >> >> With that all said can someone please tell me what is considered "to >> long" ? >> >> I include the calculations below but the the length before the episode >> proper is 1 minute 22.47 seconds for those served from >> hackerpublicradio.org and 1 minute 16.44 seconds for those served from >> archive.org. That's an increase of 43.42 and 37.39 seconds respectively. >> For your information the outro is 1 minute. >> >> If we take out the date and the contact information, then the synopsis >> is reduced to 16.54 seconds (in this case), which reduces the total to 1 >> minute 13.23 seconds and 1 minute 7.19 seconds. >> >> Then if we move the sponsor mention to the end of the show, as it was >> before, it reduces to 55.59 seconds. >> >> After that we could (probably - no idea how to do it automatically) >> reduce it to 39.05 seconds by having the synopsis overlay the intro >> music. However that means that every show will get the intro added by >> the server. That could be a problem for some hosts as many like to add >> it themselves. On the other hand it would free you to include (or not) >> any theme music you desire, even building your own "brand". >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Ken Fallon >> http://kenfallon.com >> http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30 >> >> >> $ wget --quiet http://hackerpublicradio.org/say.php?id=1648 -O - | grep >> 'HPR_summary: ' | sed 's/HPR_summary: //' | espeak -w /tmp/x.wav; >> ffprobe -i /tmp/x.wav 2>&1 | grep Duration >> Duration: 00:00:25.78, bitrate: 352 kb/s >> >> $ ffprobe -i intro.flac 2>&1 | grep Duration >> Duration: 00:00:39.05, bitrate: 700 kb/s >> >> $ ffprobe -i sponsor-anhonesthost.com-hpr15.flac 2>&1 | grep Duration >> Duration: 00:00:17.64, bitrate: 827 kb/s >> >> $ ffprobe -i sponsor-archive.org.flac 2>&1 | grep Duration >> Duration: 00:00:11.60, bitrate: 815 kb/s >> >> $ ffprobe -i outro.flac 2>&1 | grep Duration >> Duration: 00:01:00.87, bitrate: 726 kb/s >> >> $ echo "It's Wednesday 26th of November 2014. This is H P R episode 1648 >> entitled \"Bash parameter manipulation\" and is part of the series >> \"Bash Scripting\". It is hosted by Dave Morriss and is about 41 >> minutes long. Feedback can be sent to dave dot morriss at gmail dot com >> or by leaving a comment on this episode. The summary is : \"A summary >> and aide memoire of Bash parameter expansion methods\"" | espeak -w >> /tmp/x.wav; ffprobe -i /tmp/x.wav 2>&1 | grep Duration >> Duration: 00:00:25.78, bitrate: 352 kb/s >> >> $ echo "This is H P R episode 1648 entitled \"Bash parameter >> manipulation\" and is part of the series \"Bash Scripting\". It is >> hosted by Dave Morriss and is about 41 minutes long. The summary is : >> \"A summary and aide memoire of Bash parameter expansion methods\"" | >> espeak -w /tmp/x.wav; ffprobe -i /tmp/x.wav 2>&1 | grep Duration >> Duration: 00:00:16.54, bitrate: 352 kb/s >> >> ---------------------------------- >> AnHonest Host >> 25.78 Current synopsis >> 39.05 intro >> 17.64 sponsor AnHonest Host >> 82.47 Total >> >> Archive.org >> 25.78 Current synopsis >> 39.05 intro >> 11.6 sponsor Archive.org >> 76.43 Total >> ---------------------------------- >> AnHonest Host >> 16.54 synopsis >> 39.05 intro >> 17.64 sponsor AnHonest Host >> 73.23 Total >> >> Archive.org >> 16.54 synopsis >> 39.05 intro >> 11.6 sponsor Archive.org >> 67.19 Total >> ---------------------------------- >> AnHonest Host >> 16.54 synopsis >> 39.05 intro >> 0 sponsor AnHonest Host >> 55.59 Total >> >> Archive.org >> 16.54 synopsis >> 39.05 intro >> 0 sponsor >> 55.59 Total >> ---------------------------------- >> AnHonest Host >> 0 synopsis >> 39.05 Intro + Current synopsis >> 0 sponsor AnHonest Host >> 39.05 Total >> >> Archive.org >> 0 synopsis >> 39.05 Intro + Current synopsis >> 0 sponsor Archive.org >> 39.05 Total >> ---------------------------------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hpr mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org >> > > > > -- > http://www.google.com/profiles/morgellon > > > _______________________________________________ > Hpr mailing list > [email protected] > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org > >
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