Podcasting’s Elephant In The Evergreens Conundrum [S3E80]

Play This Episode

0 Votes

Will the future be kind to your podcast A good amount of us are making timeless podcast episodes that are fine to listen to 3 days 3 weeks 3 months or even 3 years in the future nbsp But will they be in 19 years In 2040 how will we listen to podcasts It s 2021 In 19 years it ll be 2040 Deal with that for a minute and then think about sound quality advancements Yes there s a limit on the range of sound frequencies our human ears can perceive And by and large we ve been able to create speakers and sound transmitters that produced rich and immersive sounds within that range for decades nbsp But podcasting at least as practiced today sends lossy files to our listeners Lossy means what it says some information is lost on the copy that reaches our listeners devices And from there depending on what or how they listen additional signal will be lost before it reaches their ears nbsp Will that be fixed in the future Will bandwidth and storage considerations be so vastly different in 19 years that lossless audio files can be sent to listeners nbsp Can podcasters prepare for the future My friend and exceptional audio engineer https twitter com meonlylouder lang en Marcus dePaula recently said that marginal video is forgivable But low-quality audio is not He s right and I have to assume that at some point in the future podcast episodes that are acceptable today will be painful to listen to Obviously we should all be preserving the source files and masters We can also lobby our hosting providers to help us stay current Rather than uploading lossy mp3 files we could be uploading lossless files letting the hosting provider make some on-the-fly decisions about the quality of files to distribute based on a variety of factors But that won t help us too much if the promise of binaural or spatial audio becomes dominant Yes I assume that just like letterboxing on our current TVs the headphones or speakers that are capable of reproducing 3D sound will also handle non-optimized content It ll just sound dated Beyond that I ve nothing much for you other than questions These are questions worthy of the other people in your podcasting peer group I m betting one person perhaps you is way more persnickety than others when it comes to sound quality Share this article with them and see how the conversation shakes out Even if there are no definitive next-steps it s always good to be thinking about the future nbsp Because if we don t our evergreen and timeless episodes are all too quickly going to start showing some browning around the edges —– Read the full article and share with a friend https podcastpontifications com episode podcastings-elephant-in-the-evergreens-conundrum https podcastpontifications com episode podcastings-elephant-in-the-evergreens-conundrum https twitter com evoterra Follow Evo on Twitter for more podcasting insights as they come https buymeacoffee com evoterra Buy him a virtual coffee to show your support And if you need a professional in your podcasting corner please visithttps podcastlaunch pro Simpler Media to see how Simpler Media Productions can help you reach your business objectives with podcasting https podcastpontifications com Podcast Pontifications is published by Evo Terra four times a week and is designed to make podcasting better not just easier This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis Chartable – https chartable com privacy Support this podcastClick here to visit this podcast episode