It started in the car

If you listen to podcasts in the car, you know the move. You turn it up for the guest, the host comes back shouting, you turn it down, and round it goes again. After a few drives like that, a fairly simple question came up: why doesn't the player do this on its own?

Ordinary normalisation treats an episode as a single thing and gives it one level. It doesn't notice that two people are talking in it, each at a different volume. LevelCast was built for exactly that gap.

What it's built on

• Everything happens on the phone. Levelling, intro detection and pace matching run on the device, while the episode plays.
• No account and no server in the middle. The audio comes straight from the producer's server, and what you save stays on your phone.
• The episodes belong to the producers. Nothing is copied or routed through a proxy, and downloads are counted on their side. More for producers.
• The only numbers on this site are measured ones. All the figures here come from measuring one minute, which you can also listen to.

Who's building it

Amit Sagy builds LevelCast in Israel, for iPhone, in Hebrew and English. It's coming soon to the App Store.

Got a question, a suggestion, or a show worth trying it with? Write to amitsagy@gmail.com