Cosmos podcast edition - Carl Sagan

While watching Cosmos on DVD it occurred to me that it would translate fairly well to a podcast format. Having spent tens of hours editing periodic announcements out of DJ sets recorded off the radio, it presented an interesting challenge. I listened through the episodes multiple times and anything that didn't work like long passages of music, or where Carl refers to something on-screen (eg. "shown here" or "this photo") were edited out. Most of the edits are seamless but some noticeable ones were unavoidable without access to the master tapes. The only content of note that didn't work "for radio" was a sequence in episode 7 where Carl shows some pictures and planetary models to primary school students, and another in episode 12 where he translates some Egyptian Hieroglyphics from Greek. For anyone wondering, I chose 32khz because it is close to 44kHz in quality, and surprisingly, 48kbps CBR was indistinguishable from 56k CBR and 48-56kbps ABR. Source: Region 4 PAL DVD AC3 files extracted with DVD Decrypter Converted to WAV with AC3filter and Winamp Downmixed and edited with with Sony Sound Forge 8.0d Encoded with LAME 3.98 and Lame-Front-End Frequency: 32kHz Bitrate: 48kbps CBR Channels: Mono Episode info available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage Good accompaniments to Cosmos: Podcast Edition in my opinion are the TTC Big History lectures (http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4162163/) and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3964818/).

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Diceman_ (2008-08-24)

My upload speed is 12kbps max so the first few downloaders will have to be patient.

Diceman_ (2008-08-26)

Also, without some help with seeding, this torrent won't survive very long.

SoCalC (2008-12-05)

Can someone please seed this? I'm at 84%. Thanks

Diceman_ (2009-06-04)

I have been trying to keep this torrent alive but when I can only transfer 30-40MB an hour if I do nothing but seed, and people leave as soon as they reach 100%, it's impossible.

Caboseistheman (2009-10-07)

I'm trying to get this and once i download it, i can keep it going just fine.

jollyjim3939 (2009-11-19)

thanks for the worthwhile labour.

Bronze-Dragonrider (2010-08-30)

Wow, this is awesome. I was planning on doing the same thing you did, I wanted to listen to Cosmos if I couldn't watch it. Looks like I wasn't alone! Thank you very much for your time and effort, it's very appreciated! I'll seed as long as I can.

leahcim3360 (2012-11-18)

Diceman, many years have passed since you put this up, but hey I'm looking for something like this tonight & here it is.
Gratitude to you & the seeders who've kept it alive.
Sagan if I might borrow a word from a different tradition, was a "prophet."

leahcim3360 (2012-11-18)

so thanks ;)