Quote Originally Posted by barkhammer View Post
Thanks - really enjoying these discussions.

One suggestion though - 209MB for a 90min podcast is a bit much especially if downloading or streaming away from a wifi network. Most podcasts have a bitrate of < 128kbps which is more than enough quality for spoken word.
i totally understand what you mean...

i would be willing to go down to 160kbps (right now i'm doing 320kbps), but we also have music in there under the talking, and compressing it down to 128kbps would make not only the dialogue sound pretty bad, but the music would sound awful. i take pride in the amount of time and energy i put into editing the episodes and making them sound as good as possible, and i don't want the bitrate compression to overly affect that. but i also don't want people to be discouraged from downloading/listening to it...

also, seriously big thanks to @RITCNIN for joining in the discussion!!!