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   James Cridland (james@bne.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 19:59:51 JST James Cridland

   • Neil Brown

   @neil Two great questions!

   Most commonly-used audio format is MP3, which is playable everywhere. Buzzsprout, one of the biggest podcast hosts in the world, defaults to 96k mono (44.1 kHz) files. That is just fine for most people.

   For a long while, WTF with Marc Maron was 48kbps mono (22.05kHz), as was Podnews Daily. As long as you make it loud enough (-14 LUFS) then most people would be just fine with 48kbps mono. Rather annoyingly, 48kbps isn't in this old list I compiled. I wonder if it's worthwhile recompiling them all?

   https://podnews.net/article/audio-quality-comparisons

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     Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 19:59:50 JST Bob Jonkman

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     • Neil Brown

     Be careful using Buzzsprout. Our Community Radio station subscribes to a bunch of podcasts for syndicated programs. The ones distributed on Buzzsprout are delivered through Cloudflare, which has blocked our station from downloading their podcasts. Instead, we get an error page with a specific code we're supposed to send to the podcast producer, but none of them have any idea what to do about it.

     For some, the producer has an alternate distributor, others we've just dropped.

     @james
     @neil

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     James Cridland (james@bne.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 03:05:55 JST James Cridland

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     • Neil Brown
     • Bob Jonkman
     • Tom Rossi
     • Kevin Finn

     @bobjonkman @neil I host on Buzzsprout. Never had an issue. Buzzsprout's co-founders are @tomrossi7 @kfinn but your producer should just forward the error to support@buzzsprout.com and they can get that fixed.

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     Tom Rossi (tomrossi7@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 03:06:17 JST Tom Rossi

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     • Neil Brown
     • Bob Jonkman

     @bobjonkman @james @neil Buzzsprout uses Cloudflare to temporarily block suspicious traffic that (among other things) may inflate podcast statistics. Something like a server for syndication without a proper user agent would be ripe.