Will This Episode Get Reprocessed?
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Will This Episode Get Reprocessed?
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About this listen
In this episode, I keep pulling on a thread that caught my attention while experimenting with a new podcast hosting platform. After uploading my audio file, I noticed it was being “processed,” which immediately raised a question for me.
I’m not a fan of hosts altering audio that’s already been intentionally produced, unless there’s a very good reason. So I decided to slow things down and actually test what was happening behind the scenes.
I compare the original MP3 files I’ve been publishing for years with the versions being delivered through the RSS feed. Same duration. Same stereo format. But a different sample rate.
My files are uploaded at 48 kHz, and they’re being resampled down to 44.1 kHz.
That may not sound like a big deal, but it opens up a broader conversation about modern podcast hosting, legacy standards, and whether certain technical practices are still necessary today.
This episode is part curiosity, part live experiment. I walk through uploading another episode, explore the dashboard, note what I like, what confuses me, and what I’d want to ask the platform developers about.
I wrap things up by setting up the next test, recording this exact episode at 44.1 kHz to see if it still gets processed.