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Episode: 819
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Title: HPR0819: Editing Part Five Post and Packing
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0819/hpr0819.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 03:00:23
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The Full Circle Podcast on Hacker Public Radio
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In this episode, editing the Full Circle Podcast, part five, post, and packing.
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Hello World, and welcome to our show on Hacker Public Radio.
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Now, part five on our series on producing the podcast.
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We've prepped, recorded, edited, and assembled.
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Now it's time to release the show on an unsuspecting world.
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All the hard work done, not quite.
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The Full Circle Podcast is the companion to Full Circle magazine,
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the independent magazine for the Ubuntu community.
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Find us at fullcirclemagazine.org forward slash podcast.
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Hacker Public Radio
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Editing the Full Circle Podcast, part five, post, and packing.
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It's the final part of this series, packaging, exporting, and posting the show.
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At some point, I have to decide that the episode is finished.
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I'll apply the final filter of dynamic range compression to the edited voice tracks,
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check the mix down, then it's time to export the episode for release.
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In order to keep the download size manageable, we've already converted the
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constituent tracks from stereo to mono audio that nearly halves the data.
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The audio files themselves now have to be scrunched down for the release version.
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In audacity, that means file, export, then choose my output options.
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I create a quality 4-OG audio file and a low-fi MP3 audio file
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in joint stereo at a bit rate of 65 to 96 kbps for those technically minded among you.
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I'm not aiming for perfect audio reproduction on somebody's bang and olives and speakers,
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but I reckon if I can get it to sound like FM radio, that's probably good enough.
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I produce both MP3 for iTunes and the proprietary music players, like my phone,
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and an org file for the open source evangelists and my desktop.
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I also produce a high-quality, original flack file in case I need to drag it back in and
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create any other file formats and quality settings at a later date, flack being the lossless audio format.
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Metadata that's tags to you and me.
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Before I do my first export, the extra dialog box prompts me for the track tags or metadata
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that data about the track and not the audio track itself.
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Clear? Good. In other words, this is artist, title, album, year, comment, copyrights and so on.
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I fill those in, select the file name to export and then go do something else for a while.
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Checking the output file. When I have my exported files, I import them back into Audacity
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to perform a spot check and visually check the waveform, making sure I've got no embarrassing
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silences, gaps, dropouts or leveling issues. I also go through the show, noting the time marks for
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each section to include in the show notes. So you can jump straight to your favoured segments
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or skip over the stuff you don't want to hear. Checking the tags in an audio player.
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Audacity doesn't write perfect tags. I usually have to edit the MP3 as the year tag in Audacity
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doesn't get populated but it does in the org file and flack file. However, it's the comment field
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that doesn't get populated in the org file. Go figure. Upload. I will upload the org and MP3
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files onto the full circle magazine server using FTP, that's file transfer protocol through file
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zilla, which is my current favoured FTP program. Show notes. I think the show notes are almost
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as important as the show. This is where the extra value is derived for the listener, additional
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description and links to original sources or supplementary links for more detail, be it websites,
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reviews, downloads or anything else that we've spotted. All the links are stashed into a text
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file until it's time for me to post the show on the server, episode posts. Our main distribution
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platform is the full circle magazine site. This means dealing with WordPress, creating the post
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and remembering all the post tags, descriptions and runtimes. If you've been watching the comments
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and the forum for the magazine, you will know that I've had problems with the podpress plugin.
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In short, podpress has been modifying the WordPress posts and creating custom fields for some,
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but not all, of our external music links. Putting those links into the RSS and Atom feeds,
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usually at the expense of one or other of the org or MP3 file for the show itself. So when you
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try and download from the RSS, you get the incidental music, but not the episode itself. However,
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since we started using our own link shortener for external music links, podpress is left with just
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the specified episode files in the media file section of the post and doesn't short changes
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on the RSS feed. Entering the show notes is not quite as simple as I would like. You have to remember
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the settings for the embedded org and MP3 players, include the links for the topics, news stories
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and software discussed. The timings go in manually and I try to format the thing to look exactly
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the same each time, linking the media into the show notes. I create the entries for media,
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linking to the uploaded media files on the full circle server. The RSS and Atom feeds will
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get updated by podpress from here. I'll also link in Dave's transcript for a game review if he
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has one. Finally, letting the world know, WordPress builds the RSS and Atom feeds automatically,
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so as long as I've entered the information correctly, the feeds should be good, except
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some feed readers seem not to like the format that podpress applies and we're still working on that.
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Subscribers get the notifications of new episodes as do sites such as iTunes, which I configured
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early this year. Other notifications include the full circle forums where I add to an existing
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post or sticky or starting new thread. I put a summary entry on the podcast team's working site
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and also on my blog. And that's it, a complete episode of the full circle podcast.
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Until the next episode, when it starts all over again.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio.
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We are a community podcast network that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday.
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Today's show, like all our shows, was contributed by a HBR listener by yourself.
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If you ever consider recording a podcast, then visit our website to find out how easy it
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really is. Hacker Public Radio was founded by the digital dark pound and the
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