A Penguin in the Orchard

Podcasting Penguins

The fourth article in the “Attack of the Pod Penguins” series is up at LinuxWorld. Part 4 digs a bit more deeply into Audacity before turning attention to some of the great command-line audio processing tools available to most Linux distributions.

In fact, I’m eyeball-deep today in finishing up Part 5. With the holiday weekend, the deadline crept up on me a bit faster than normal. You can probably expect to see this installment right around December 1.

In Part 5, I take some exception to the notion that podcasting should represent a complete break from mainstream media as we know it; a break shouldn’t sever us from the basic principles of carefully capturing and processing sound. For all its many shortcomings, radio has established a level of sound quality that we expect whether consciously or not, even in podcasts. The tools exist in most Linux distributions to assure that the message isn’t lost in sub-par sound quality. I talk in depth about one of those tools, the excellent normalize-audio.

I’ll let you know here when the piece is up.

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