{"id":28007,"date":"2020-01-31T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28007"},"modified":"2020-01-31T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:30:05","slug":"overcast-2020-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/31\/overcast-2020-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcast 2020.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2020\/01\/31\/voiceboost2\">Marco Arment<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OvercastFM\/status\/1223317202478211076\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2020\/01\/31\/voiceboost2\">\n<p>Voice Boost 2 achieves the same goal as the original Voice Boost, but with dramatically more sophisticated methods, leading to more consistent results and <em>much<\/em> better sound quality.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I had to write every component from scratch, without using AudioUnits, because I wanted to understand and control everything, ensure the highest performance and sound quality, and avoid Apple&rsquo;s platform-specific API limits.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Voice Boost 2 normalizes all podcasts to &#x2013;14 LUFS &mdash; a level I chose because it closely matches the volume of Siri and most iOS turn-by-turn navigation voices, so when you&rsquo;re listening to a podcast while driving, navigation interruptions are less jarring.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a new per-podcast setting to skip a given number of seconds from the start and\/or end of its episodes.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Going 13-only so soon was a mistake. Hear why on <a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/+FgnaXsFSI\">Under The Radar 181<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/+FgnZdP74w\">183<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/29\/clip-sharing-with-overcast\/\">Clip Sharing With Overcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment (tweet): Voice Boost 2 achieves the same goal as the original Voice Boost, but with dramatically more sophisticated methods, leading to more consistent results and much better sound quality. [&#8230;] I had to write every component from scratch, without using AudioUnits, because I wanted to understand and control everything, ensure the highest performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-01-31T21:30:08Z","apple_news_api_id":"c67c2da5-1338-4aa4-a98c-3b7d3d1338c1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-01-31T21:30:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AxnwtpRM4SqSpjDt9PRM4wQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[222,95,31,1610,1667,26,647,112],"class_list":["post-28007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airplay","tag-audio","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-ios-13","tag-iosapp","tag-overcast","tag-podcasts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28008,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007\/revisions\/28008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}