Great article. I can’t remember a time when podcasters, me included, haven’t complained about Skype.
Skype causing problems for Mac podcasters
Great article. I can’t remember a time when podcasters, me included, haven’t complained about Skype.
For podcasts with only two people, host + guest, I can’t understand why FaceTime Audio isn’t used. It has significantly better quality, and is available on both Mac OS and iOS. Then again, I’ve never put together a podcast…
“I can’t understand why FaceTime Audio isn’t used.” It’s the way Jim and I do our weekly podcast segment. Much less hassle than screwing with Skype.
Gee, a Mac product gets worse after MS gets it’s grubby mitts on it. Hoodathunkit!?
Just be grateful you’re not stuck waiting for a Skype for Business (aka Lync) client. I have to run a Windows VM for that single program at work.
Look into using Mumble. Sure it’s a hassle to get people to install new software, but Mumble runs on multiple platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android) and has a built-in facility for high quality multitrack recording– meaning every participant in a conversation has their audio on a separate track, so you can duck them individually when editing if you want.
If multiple participants do their own recording, you even have offsite backups.
The only real downside to it compared to Skype is that it requires a server, but installing and running it is fairly trivial and its requirements are minimal.
So that’s why your audio sounds so good. 🙂
I grabbed a Docker image for Mumble and popped it into ElasticBeanstalk. Like 5 monkeys, 10 minutes easy. I agree, definitely worth a look.
To be honest, running the Mumble server (called Murmur) is so trivial on OS X and Windows that it was probably almost as complicated to use Docker. Running it on FreeBSD, Linux or another *NIX is a bit more complicated, but not much.