Downloading the entire #TheGoodPlace podcast so I can do the audio (dynamic range) compression their engineers should have done before publishing :eyeroll: ... ;)
Thank goodness for vim, wget, #ffmpeg :D
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@rl_dane audio compression why?
Audio compression in the sense of "kompressor," compressing the dynamic range so that it's not really quiet one moment and then blowing out your car speakers (and ears) the next.
vim for inspecting the RSS file, then shell one-liners for grabbing the URLs, wget to batch-download, then ffprobe to extract the titles from the .mp3 files, more shell one-liners to rename everything, edir and vim again to figure out where the titles that don't start with "Ch. [0-9]" should go in the order of things to that nothing is out of order, ffprobe to perform the dynamic range compression and convert from 128k mp3 to 64k opus. :)
All it means is that the quiet bits are amplified to match the overall volume of the entire file. So if you're listening to a sermon where the guy whispers some times and yells some times, the whispers will be almost as loud as the yells (without sounding like yelling).
It's like HDR mode in photos where the dark spots are brightened and the overblown-bright spots are mellowed out. An audio compressor makes everything roughly the same volume.
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