I would love to have no reservations giving the TR podcast a 5 star rating, however the audio quality is currently not good. I wish that I had the audio engineering background to best describe my experience, but it just seems like the quality lacking a pleasing warmth, flat, and quiet. It also seems to have gotten worse over time. (Thankfully, the keyboard typing during the podcast issue hasn’t reared its head lately!) It’s easy to compare to other popular podcasts, and also some that I listen to that are niche and have a small audience, and the TR podcast is not great in comparison. Am I alone in this observation? Is TR working on this? Maybe buy everyone better microphones? Better training for audio recording/processing personnel? Better recording software? It’s one of the podcasts I listen to regularly, so just want it to be the full 5 star experience.
Thanks!
I have noticed that the volume of the voices is low. I have to turn my radio volume all the way to max and still cannot hear some of it clearly. No problem with any other podcast that I listen to.
This has been bothering me for a few months. I can’t turn the volume high enough to comfortably understand everyone while driving at highway speeds. Even without road noise, the poor audio makes it even harder to understand when people are talking over each other. I gave up on episode 456 two weeks ago because the interrupting and audio made it too hard to understand. The audio is especially bad from the guests.
Ditto to low volume (gain) issues. I have to run double the value for TR (50’s) in Windows compared to all other media (15-30).
I’ve also noticed low volume issues of late. The sound quality is good, just very quiet. I generally listen in my car and find I’m now having to practically max out the volume to properly hear what they are saying.
And chapters have been missing in action for a while. I love, love chapter markers and they do include them in the podcast descriptions. But please bring back chapters.
Makes me think someone new took over podcast editing.
Thanks for telling us, I’ll forward this to Johnathan to make sure we get the audio volume correct.
I haven’t noticed any of these issues on YouTube, so I think it must specifically be related to where people are getting the podcast? YouTube and Spotify both also have the chapter markers.
It does still do that annoying “jump ahead” when someone pauses for a second though.
I second that volume isn’t an issue on YouTube.
But the ads are out of control. From what I can tell YouTube has upped the ads everywhere, but there used to be no ads and (at least for me) the last podcast had a two ads pop up every 3-5 minutes. It really breaks up the flow and just about makes it u watchable.
Are there ads on Spotify?
I noticed that too with the ads. Audio was ok
Unsure, but no ads on Overcast.
No Ads on spotify if you pay for the subscription
I’ll second this. YouTube ads have gotten ridiculous. There is nothing worse than getting into a yoga pose and then having a YouTube ad pop up. I still don’t understand why they don’t offer pricing for just ad-free YouTube without any other things (like YouTube music, which is worthless for me). I’d gladly pay them $5 a month for no ads, but $15 is way too high.
Started watching todays cast (495) and have to crank up the volume even on YouTube. 74 setting in Windows this time.
- Fine generally speaking… except that the overly frequent adds pop in at a totally higher volume level that has me scrambling to drop volume for the seconds you can’t skip the ad. Worse than what happens on TV when ads pop in with boosted levels.
Just started the downloaded audio version and the same 74 Win volume setting I used for YT is needed for this weeks cast. My Windows alerts are LOUD when paired with the podcast.
I have the same volume issues on YouTube with the recent podcast 495. I have to basically double my speakers volume to have a normal audio volume compared to every other sound output on this computer.
So odd. I don’t have this problem at all on YouTube. Maybe because I’m wearing earbuds? I played another video, then an ad, then the TR podcast b2b2b on YouTube and noticed no volume change.
Not saying you and others are wrong…just trying to understand why some people experience it and others don’t…
Are you saying it’s true for ALL YouTube content versus other computer sounds? I’m asking because I think the feedback is that some people find the TR podcast to be low volume.
I have edited my comment. The volume issue is just with the podcast episodes. For example the Keto Diet video has the right volume for me.
Win 11 Pro here, external speakers (set around 50% of their volume), plugged into the Headphone port from my PC (as the only audio out option), set as “Headphones” currently (but never noticed a difference when set as “Speakers”).
Had the same experience on the computer (using chrome) where the commercials were normal volume and the Podcast is really low. I checked using the app on the iPad and it was fine. 
On another note… Got two commercials before the podcast then another two about 10 seconds in…two more less than 5 min later. 
I hope TR is at least making money off all these ads!