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    Alternative to Skype

    Teamspeak hands down.

    Quality can be set to far surpass skype. Google hangouts is decent, considering googles codec integrates HE-AAC.

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    I have done many tests with Teamspeak, Skype and Mumble. And I Skype has the best audio out off all of them. This might just be my testing but the masses are still using Skype and its for a reason.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RadarGaming View Post
    I have done many tests with Teamspeak, Skype and Mumble. And I Skype has the best audio out off all of them. This might just be my testing but the masses are still using Skype and its for a reason.
    They use skype because its convenient, thats why I use it. But If I was focused on audio quality? You can alter the quality of a teamspeak server.

    But thats not even the point. The big one that pod casters dont take into consideration (anyone that's done radio streaming or transcoding, back me up here) is your digital sound processing and DSP stacks.

    Most the time when I mention this, They say ," ohhh, uhhhh, I'm recording with (name a $50-100 audio recording program) ..... "

    NO NO NO NO NO..... I wish I could hit you on the head with a rolled newspaper.

    Go get a second sound card, and set up a recording source with some AISO programs. You want to complain about all these streaming audio programs, but you have no post audio production, and that's the BIGGEST advantage you have over live streaming.... JEEEESE.

    If you want to have a show with another person, and their on board with what your doing:

    A) Tell them to load up audacity.

    B) Talk to each other through the telephone, with the telephone NOT in speaker mode. Record your conversations locally, and try not to talk over each other.

    C) One person sends the other the convo with the Audacity file. A half hour, to one hour edit? No one will know your not in the same studio. Export to codec of choice, and that's a wrap.


    OR, just go get a program like Radiogate, and put that on a second soundcard, and let that AISO magic process the(name your VIOP of choice) audio.

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