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Castopod :podcasting2:

⚡️ Poll: Please Vote and Boost! ⚡️

We’re considering developing an open-source desktop app (Linux, Windows, Mac) for podcast creation.

It will feature a customizable workflow where every tool is a plugin, including:

🎛️ Noise reduction
🗣️ Mouth noise editing
🎚️ Simple multi-channel audio editing
🎵 Music insertion
✍️ Automatic local transcription, manual correction
📖 Chapter editing
🏷️ Metadata editing (ID3, RSS) with LLM
💾 Local publishing
🌐 Publish to host (including Castopod support, but not only)

Anonymous poll

Poll

🥳 I want it now!!!
109
46%
🤔 Why not…
87
36.7%
🥱 Not interested.
22
9.3%
🤷 No opinion
19
8%
237 people voted.
Voting ended 27 November at 17:46.
24 November at 17:46 | Open on podlibre.social
19 comments
Holger Krupp

@Castopod could be interesting if it’s a native Mac app. If it’s some kind of crossplatform framework (electron or similar) I wouldn’t even try it.

24 November at 17:56 | Open on mastodon.social
moonglum
Holger Krupp

@moonglum @Castopod bad experience with crossplattform apps on macOS. Apples Aufio pipeline is sometimes a bit sensitive. Native apps can handle this usually well.

24 November at 20:16 | Open on mastodon.social
moonglum

@_holger So this only about Audio apps, and not cross-platform apps in general? Always a bit surprised by these strong reactions to web-based applications (in the browser, or wrapped in Electron), given they are the only reason most of us can work on Mac or Linux in a business context.

24 November at 20:22 | Open on social.yakshed.org
Holger Krupp

@moonglum audio app especially as it’s important that there is as little lag as possible. But other electron apps are also not ideal. Way too big, as every app brings their own chrome, they eat ram for breakfast. In addition it happens that the framework is not updated by the developers, keeping known and fixed security vulnerabilities open.

24 November at 20:33 | Open on mastodon.social
moonglum

@_holger
1. Interesting 🤔 We did all our podcast recording in the browser, it was never a problem. Furthermore, most voice/video chat is also browser-based today. I haven‘t heard anyone complain about lag in them.
2. Disk Space: Is that still true? Checked it on a Mac recently, and the Electron apps were roughly the same size as the “native” ones.
3. RAM: I agree that they use more RAM many cases.
4. Own Chrome version: True, which is why I use all of them in a browser 😄

24 November at 21:42 | Open on social.yakshed.org
Castopod :podcasting2:
Uwe Caspari

@Castopod Will it include an integration for recording, local and via studiolink.

24 November at 18:00 | Open on social.saarland
Nick Giannak III

@Castopod You've got other issues first. E.G. Federation issues. A podcast in Castopod not playable from inside Mastodon. Can you do something with that?

24 November at 18:08 | Open on hkc.social
Optional

@Castopod It should probably sit somewhere between Audacity and @ultraschall. But I'm very happy with the latter, so I wouldn't need something different.

24 November at 18:26 | Open on dice.camp
Castopod :podcasting2:

@Optional Yes but @ultraschall relies on Reaper which is not open-source not free to use.
The idea is also a tool made specifically for podcasters.

25 November at 9:13 | Open on podlibre.social
box_yld
Wait isn't that already exsist with easy effects?

https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects
24 November at 21:33 | Open on bassam.social
Baessito (casa nova) 🇧🇷🇵🇸

@Castopod amazing :blobBone_party: :blobBone_jump:

25 November at 9:19 | Open on bolha.one
Alexey Skobkin

@Castopod
"Why not".
I'd still use Reaper for production, but I may use it for transcription, chapter editing and publishing if it'll allow not to do entire process in it.

25 November at 11:58 | Open on lor.sh
Castopod :podcasting2:

@skobkin Yes, the whole point is to be able to customize the workflow so that it answers your needs!

25 November at 12:00 | Open on podlibre.social
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