This Week in Privacy Podcast audio quality is probably too high

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I just switched from watching the Youtube to the audio podcast of This Week in Privacy and was shocked to see the filesize of the Dec 5 episode to be 296mb. It’s one of the biggest on my phone.

Looking back, the Sept 19 episode is 1:51:57 and 107mb

Sept 26 episode is 1:02:05 and 141mb

Seems the encoding quality increased for the later date and following dates and is contributing to the larger file sizes. Can the audio quality be decreased to make for more reasonable file sizes?

A download of a recent espiode while on data sans wifi may wreck data quotas of most people.

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@jordan not sure what we’re at now, but I’d imagine these could be lowered to 128 Kbps files?

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Yes I’ve been doing 320kbps MP3s, I’ll lower the quality to 128kbps to reduce the file size apologies for that.

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At bottom of OP

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Thought it was a compliment at first like “you guys are doing too good” but no, it is about the size of the file. :joy:

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Unfortunately, I won’t be listening in the future. 320kbps, which is like Spotify’s quality, is the absolute minimum for me. I always listen to audio through my Holo Audio DAC and Genelec speakers, and even now the noise is really annoying. Also, a 200mb file downloads in about a second, and surely everyone has space for those files in the year 2025.

edit. You can’t imagine how awful 320kbps sounds on really revealing gear.

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