On 2020-11-17 21:40, Jeff Learman wrote:
How many is "a bunch"? Unless you have hundreds, or unless there's
some
real obvious audible flag to indicate the ads, it'd be easier to find a
good simple GUI audio editor that lets you simply select and delete the
ads.
Certainly that would make removal of the ads easier, but finding them -
if the podcast files are random extracts of longer files (ie the ads
may be anywhere at all in them, not eg always around the - say - 4 mins
in point, is still going to be tricky.
Assuming that one can near-instantly id something as jingle or ad if one
clicks play at some point on a timeline, one's still going to have to do
that manually maybe 30 times (ie every 20 seconds) in a ten-minute file.
It might still be easier to use a script to generate (say) 2-second
snips
of each source file at 20-25 second intervals, then concatenate them and
listen to a set to find out if any of them seem to contain ads/jingles.
My guess is that this really isn't going to be easy to do, and you'll
have to spend the time to audit the results of trials to see how many
files they worked on, and in the end it'll take a lot of time.
I think that too.
--
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own
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