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Wire for Podcasters

Why

Most podcasters (ourselves included) begrudgingly use Skype to record our shows for two reasons:

  1. Most reliable call quality/lacency
  2. Network effect (guests usually have an account already)

We all build our workflows around Skype, cobbling together different tools for recording, file transfer, etc, etc.

We would gladly jump ship, pay for, and evangelize a competitor if it can compete with Skype on call reliability/quality and provide a better work flow for us. Here's a short list of features that would solve Podcaster Problems.

Must-have

  • A single button click by the 'producer' on a group call starts local recordings for each participant
  • After the recording is finished, each participant's local recording (their voice only) is uploaded to the producer
  • A shared text chat is available during the recording for non-voice comms, link sharing, etc.

Like-to-have

  • Participants can see a 'recording' status so they aren't recorded unaware
  • Participants can mute themselves on the call, also silencing their local recording
  • Producer can see a wave form of each participant for leveling purposes
  • Conversation can be streamed live to a web url (or hooks to perform this via 3rd party software)
  • Participants do not need the Wire software or accounts to join the call (just send them a link would be awesome)
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irae commented Dec 22, 2017 •
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I also have another idea for uploads. What about cloud hosting the streams? Some people cannot afford as a producer to be hammered with 3 high quality stream downloads from their peers. Connection might be at a premium or they might be interviewing someone else just after this call.

If Wire could provide a temporary - secure - cloud hosting for the high quality upload it would be awesome. Here is how it could potentially work:

  1. Recording is done and all 'guests' have their high quality recording to upload
  2. It gets sent to Wire's temporary service but encripted in a way only the 'producer' can decode
  3. While 'producer' is not on a call, their client downloads all the files in the background, auto-pause if another call is started

Anyone likes the idea?

Edit: It is only about the 'producer' availability. Parallel download from the 'producer' side creates slowdown for 'guests' to send their recordings, which adds to the problem I mentioned on my previous comment.

Disclaimer: I am not a podcaster myself, I do plan to start one, have bought equipment and have run a few tests with friends. For now I am just an enthusiast that put a lot of research on it.

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