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As we have described last week in Chapter Marks for MP3, MP4 Audio and Vorbis Comment, chapter marks are a great way to make your podcasts more informative and searchable. But while chapters are incredibly convenient for listeners to have, they are also a lot of work for producers to create!
At Auphonic, we therefore offer several features to import chapters from your favourite audio editors and other sources, that make the creation of chapter marks much easier. Choose your option:
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Getting started with podcasting can be a laborious process, because it costs time to produce and money to host a podcast.
At Auphonic, we are constantly trying to make this process simpler and cheaper, not just through our own free automatic audio post production web service, but also by offering tight integration with various third-party services.
In this article, we will show you how to set up a podcast in a few minutes for free. The final solution includes a blog with a feed from which your listener's can directly access your audio and video files, all hosted on ...
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In case you have not noticed already, Auphonic now supports Amazon S3 and Archive.org as external services. Archive.org, also known as the 'Internet Archive', is a great service for publicly hosting audio and video files for free. Amazon S3, on the other hand, provides both free and affordable services for public or private file storage, featuring better download speeds and high durability. S3 also interfaces with Glacier, Amazon's cheap solution for long-term archiving and backups of data that does not require rapid access.
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Have you ever wondered how loud your audio productions should be? So have we, because it's a quite tricky question to answer!
On the one hand, you want to make sure your productions are loud enough. For example, they should still appear at a reasonable level in noisy environments (car, airplane, etc.), and their loudness should be comparable to that of other programs, no matter whether those are produced by yourself or by others.
On the other hand, you certainly don't want to compromise sound quality for sheer loudness. We have discussed in Audio loudness measurement and normalization with ...
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We are very happy that Opus, an exciting new open audio codec, is now officially standardized by the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Opus is particularly interesting for podcasts, radio books and internet audio in general due to its suitability for both, music and speech, and its outstanding sound quality at also very low bitrates.
In this article, we will listen to some examples of the Opus codec in action
and have a closer look at the codec and how audio producers can benefit from it.
Opus is a lossy audio codec that has ...