Speedy Delivery
I never seem to have enough time. I am sure you know what I am talking about. One of the things I don’t have enough time for lately is listening to the podcasts I want to hear. Take for instance TLLTS. The podcast is 2 hours long. Hard to squeeze that into an hour long train ride a?! Well, I think I have found the answer – or one of them (such is how Linux works).
I use the “sox” utility, which is almost always installed on your average/typical Linux box to shrink the podcast I want to listen to so that it doesn’t take up as much time. Now I admit that this process somewhat diminishes the audio quality, but I can still understand it just fine. And I am sure there is some tweaking to be done in there somewhere that someone will tell me about as well. I’d play with it more, but like I said, no time … 
Here’s the command I have been using:
sox tllts.mp3 fasttllts.ogg stretch .7 180 pitch 50 lowp 3000
There ya go world! Have at it!
September 12th, 2007 at 7:46 am
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