Exactly. I even mentioned that in my recent episode about the Tildeverse towards the end. It's about quality of content, not quality of audio (to some extent since you should be able to understand what the speakers says).
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 11:48 AM Brian K Navarette via Hpr <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hope people would contribute and take to heart the audio doesn't have to be > perfect. My shows audio isn't great but I get shows done, so like mr x says > pick up your phone or mic and record a show, heck use espeak to read > something you wrote. > brian-in-ohio > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 2:58 PM Ken Fallon via Hpr > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2024-01-21 23:05, Keith Murray wrote: >> >> >> As the discussion has continued there's a question in my mind about >> listenership numbers as well. >> >> Caveats: >> 1. Download numbers are certainly an imperfect measure for a podcast, but >> without other more intrusive analytics I suspect that's all we're likely to >> have. >> 2. Download / subscriber numbers aren't "the point" of the exercise. >> >> While we're not doing this to be "popular", certainly, but it would be nice >> to have an idea of just what the trends are with respect to listenership. >> After over 4000 episodes delivered and a consistent schedule that's been in >> place for a very long time, I expect things would be either consistent or >> growing. >> >> Are they? With 470 contributors to HPR, how many orders of magnitude larger >> than that number does the average episode reach? >> >> "Each day your show will be heard by as many people as can squeeze into the >> main auditorium at FOSDEM, or between two and three Airbus A380-800. You >> know the big double decker passenger plane. Every month we have on average >> 33,584 downloads, that's about 40 fully loaded Airbus A380-800." See >> https://archive.org/details/hpr3648/ for more information. >> >> We have a lot more listeners than we do hosts, and not all hosts are >> listeners. >> >> However you can do the maths yourself, I'm looking forward to your show on >> the topic. ;-) >> >> The download stats for each show are listed on the Internet Archive page. >> The dates can be found using this query (It's a cut down version of a query >> Dave sent me ) >> >> SELECT >> >> MIN(e.date) AS joindate >> >> FROM eps e >> >> JOIN hosts h ON e.hostid = h.hostid >> >> GROUP BY h.hostid >> >> ORDER BY joindate DESC; >> >> The db can be downloaded from https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN) >> https://kenfallon.com >> https://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hpr mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/mailman/listinfo/hpr > > _______________________________________________ > Hpr mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/mailman/listinfo/hpr _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/mailman/listinfo/hpr
