“You can specify the overall loudness level based on established European broadcasting loudness standards (boy, I wish the US would adopt these!)”

Actually, there are also loudness standards for TV in US, called ATSC A/85 (see [1] and [2]).
This is also selectable as loudness target in the Auphonic interface!

LG
Georg

[1]: http://www.atsc.org/cms/index.php/standards/recommended-practices/185-a85-techniques-for-establishing-and-maintaining-audio-loudness-for-digital-television
[2]: https://auphonic.com/blog/2012/08/02/loudness-measurement-and-normalization-ebu-r128-calm-act/

Thanks a lot for this great article – it’s really a good Auphonic introduction

However, I have to correct some small details:

1) “The service is built on open source tools, and they are planning to release the algorithms as plugins to Audacity (hopefully in the form of VSTs for use in other DAWs as well)”

We don’t have plans to make Audacity plugins, ATM we are porting some algorithms in the LV2 plugin format – these should be useable in latest Audacity.
However, it will delay a bit because it still needs a lot of time and other things are more important ATM (especially the Android App).

2) “As stated, the service is free and they have no plans to charge for it above voluntary donations.”:

We cannot guarantee that, as said in the podcast, we will try to establish a freemium model based on the amount of data people are processing.
So heavy users pay a little bit for it and small podcaster can still use it for free.

3) “Much of the work is being funded by the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts and the Austrian government.”
It’s not funded by the university, just by the Austrian government

Thanks again – if you have any issues or requests, just let us know!

Have a nice day,
LG
Georg

However, it is extremely flexible in how to get files in to and out of it, so you can tie it to Dropbox.

It will create “Auphonic” and “Auphonic-results” folders in the “Apps” folder of Dropbox. If you have another Dropbox folder that you already collaborate with others through, you can use the Dropbox web interface to move the source or completed files anywhere around Dropbox without using any bandwidth. All of the big file moves and such happen “in the cloud”, so you’re not moving the files with your bandwidth. Just tell Dropbox not to sync those folders to your home computer!

Similarly, you can configure Auphonic to use ftp so it will copy the completed file directly to your podcast hosting server. You wouldn’t use any bandwidth beyond the initial upload.

In another scenario, collaborators could upload to Dropbox (directly to the Auhphonic folder if you had shared it with them) and Auphonic could copy the finished file to the web host. The only bandwidth you’d use is the web browsing to click options to process the file.

Getting more advanced, you can create a processing preset, and have a server script that looks for new files in an “input” folder, which calls the Auphonic API to process the file and move it to the public web folder, complete and ready for you to hit “Post” on an episode entry. A lot of work up front, but could save tons of time (and bandwidth) in the long run!

This is a great article and I’m gonna have to give this a go. I just returned from a conference where I recorded many hours of sessions with my Tascam DR1 and want to tidy them up a bit just for my own personal listening – without spending much time of getting too involved. This sounds perfect!

Many thanks and see you soon brother,

Andy

Do you know if we could use it like a Dropbox, when more than one people are involved? I mean, does it keep an online copy that we can share with a URL or do we have to finish in one go and reupload everytime? (bandwidth is an issue in Canada, it costs an arm and a leg to have it unlimited)

I love the song, haunting and melodic and funky! I can’t wait to hear the next one!

If I didn’t “need” to access advanced video features, write music, or use some exotic audio hardware, I’d still be 100% satisfied with Linux on the desktop.

And the funny thing about Mac, if I remember the stats correctly, there are more Linux desktops in use than Mac desktops, it’s just that people spend considerably more money in apps and hardware on the Mac, so there is little incentive for companies to properly support Linux outside of a server environment.

I blame the Hardware manufacturer’s for adding so much software bloat to their drivers. We use HP printers at work, something I haven’t fought changing simply because I didn’t want to deal with accounting whining because they order the ink cartridges. But HP has added so much crap to their print drivers, I am finally considering taking on that battle, because Accounting maybe an easier foe then HP. I recently installed an HP 4500 all in one printer at one of our stores, granted our PC’s are older, but they are still XP w/SP3. It spent over an hour installing, then for no apparent reason based on the less then helpful error message, failed. They have added little apps to buy cartridges from them, added tool bars to IE (or sold the right to add other companies tool bars), added additional web printing, and about 100 other useless apps and applets, instead of sticking to what the user needs, which is a well written driver that allows the hardware to interface with the OS. It’s just ridiculous the amount of code bloat they add to try and bump up their bottom line instead of providing what I was trained as the proper way to code, following the KISS method.

Hardware manufacturer’s need to learn that less is more. Keep it simple and make it work seamlessly…. Do that, and I will be elated with your product.

I have enough time suck’s in my life without that hassle. Maybe it’s fun for a hobbyist to deal with these things, but it doesn’t improve our bottom line at work, and I personally would rather be surfing the web or watching TV at home.

Sorry, to jump your soap box, but it just really hit home as of problems of late.