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As far as I know, enough podcast apps require MP3 (and not even VBR!) that you have to use MP3, and you can't have multiple <enclosure>s, so how would you do th
by geofft 8y ago
As far as I know, enough podcast apps require MP3 (and not even VBR!) that you have to use MP3, and you can't have multiple <enclosure>s, so how would you do this? A separate RSS feed for Opus, linked only on the website and not submitted to aggregators?
- CharlesW 8y ago> As far as I know, enough podcast apps require MP3 (and not even VBR!) that you have to use MP3… Nope! Podcast episodes can be encoded using AAC (which is as ubiquitous as MP3) without issue. That won't realistically possible with Opus until Opus hardware decoding has available in mobile devices for 5-10 years.
- digi_owl 8y agoOr more like never unless you get Apple to front it...
- Hello71 8y agoI highly doubt there are any devices that are capable of accessing the modern web, with all its JavaScript bloat, yet cannot decode a simple audio codec. Even when Apple was installing AAC hardware decoders, they were already almost obsolete by modern embedded CPU development (especially the rise of medium-power ARM SoCs). I highly doubt any devices released in the past 5 years have any sort of fixed-function audio decoder. Maybe an encoder, possibly some general-purpose DSPs, but not a format-specific decoder.
- andai 8y agoI use Opus on my phone all the time. I was in a place where internet was really expensive, so I'd download and convert things on a Linux server. In conjunction with youtube-dl I could listen to pretty much anything I wanted, using almost no data. These days I use it mostly for audiobooks, if storage is limited.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoOpus is awesome for audiobooks at 24kbps (probably one could go lower than this even) and music at 96kbps. I don't hear any difference in quality. It makes a big difference for my mobile which is limited to 128Gb.
- andai 8y agoMan that's a big collection! Though to be fair the iPod 160GB came out like ten years ago, and I thought we'd have advanced a bit more in that department by now. (Like imagine an iPod but instead of the spinny hard drive it's all microSD! There's just no market for it I guess.)
- floatboth 8y agoYeah, the last time hardware audio decoders were relevant was like... back in the Nokia N-Gage days. The N-Gage QD removed the MP3 decoder that was present in the original model. And you could install a software player, and it would struggle with bitrates above 128kbps :D Modern phones can decode video in software (sucks for battery life, and framerate/resolution are more limited than with hardware, but it's possible). Audio is nothing for them.
- CharlesW 8y ago> Yeah, the last time hardware audio decoders were relevant was like... back in the Nokia N-Gage days. I guess it's irrelevant you feel overwhelmed by how long your phone can go on a charge. Plus, low-power/low-CPU requirements are an order of magnitude more critical in devices like smartwatches.
- sitkack 8y agoDistribute podcast as HTML file with WASM based decoder, whole file, self contained with either a byte stream out or play/pause
- yoklov 8y agoIgnoring other issues, this will have rather poor power usage, which is especially relevant given how many people listen to podcasts on mobile devices.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoPresumably a separate RSS feed. There are podcasts that have separate Ogg RSS feeds.