tonight what is the call in number for your radio thing and the times? Not sure I will be able to but I will try…

As always, Richard was really informative and very insightful with his knowledge of LSU football. It gave me some good work listening. He did weasel out of the prediction part at the end; you have to give a prediction! Still, good stuff.

Todd,

You started doing good with the delay around halfway, and it sounded pretty good. Let us know about tonight. I have family stuff with the wife (b-day), but I would still like to listen if possible.

My guess (haven’t downloaded the thing yet) is that your bitrate is set too high for voice recordings. Music requires a much higher level of detail and, therefore, bigger files… typically on the order of 1MB/minute of audio. Podcasts can be at much, much lower bitrates without any major degradation in sound quality.

Music is typically encoded at 128Kbps or 196Kbps, but podcasts can really go down as low as 48Kbps and it won’t sound too bad. I wouldn’t ever go higher than 96Kbps unless music is the point of the podcast and you’re playing a lot of it.

Shoot me an email if I can be of any assistance.

/nerd-mode off

…I would prefer a download option so I don’t have to have the page open to listen or can put in on my iPod, etc. Still have the embedded player, but provide options you know.

I have to say, I think it turned out better than expected. The lags weren’t so bad, but I understand you cut out some of the worst parts. Back-and-forth was just impossible, and it became kind of a straight question-and-answer session by necessity.

It was a lot of fun, and I hope I was a good guinea pig.