{"id":5378,"date":"2019-11-27T07:47:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T07:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T07:47:57","slug":"23-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2019\/11\/27\/23-days\/","title":{"rendered":"23 days"},"content":{"rendered":"
I think I may have insulted the creators of a podcast I listen to every week<\/a> by telling them I hear it at 1.5x speed, with silences trimmed. Unfortunately, the bottom line is that life is too short and my interests too broad. You can\u2019t sniff at 23 days<\/em> saved over the past two and a half years.<\/p>\n
\"Thank

Thank you, Pocket Casts<\/p><\/div>\n

My experience is that most podcasts can be sped up to around 1.2x without any issues. Podcasts that have an interview or conversation format can be boosted to 1.5x, and have their silences trimmed as well. It\u2019s important not to trim the silence on podcasts with one presenter such as Hardcore History<\/a><\/em> as the pauses are just as much a part of the monologue as what is said. The excellent Pocket Casts<\/a> app allows you to set up the specific parameters on a per-podcast basis<\/a>, so you don\u2019t need to spend time changing it as you jump from cast to cast.<\/p>\n

I jokingly suggested that the creators could speed the podcast up to 1.5x to begin with in order to get their revenge on me. Thinking about it more, podcast creators could add subliminal or \u2018hidden\u2019 messages to their recordings that you only hear when you slow it down, kind of like the mysterious and mythical additions to 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s vinyl. Maybe they already have?<\/p><\/div>\n

I think I may have insulted the creators of a podcast I listen to every week by telling them I hear it at 1.5x speed, with silences trimmed. Unfortunately, the bottom line is that life is too short and my interests too broad. You can\u2019t sniff at 23 days saved over the past two and […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-podcasts","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":205,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/the-project-management-podcast\/","url_meta":{"origin":5378,"position":0},"title":"The Project Management Podcast","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"13 April 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I first heard about podcasting I had been looking for shows that interested me. 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